Mexico approves first steps of 'nautical stairway'

November 2003

Brazil

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Chile

Home Depot brokers Chilean forest accord

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Ecuador

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Brazil

Brazil's transgenics bill greeted cautiously

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Around the Region

Tambogrande impact hearings suspended

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Sharks pay price as fin trade prospers

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Q&A

Wild-plant conservation seen as aid to food security

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Mexico approves first steps of 'nautical stairway'

Mexico

Mexico's Environment and Natural Resources Secretariat (Semarnat) this month approved the first environmental-impact statement for the so-called nautical stairway, a five-state tourism project targeting northern Mexico's Pacific coast and the Sea of Cortez. The project, a series of 27 marinas fringing the entire Baja California peninsula and the far side of the Sea of Cortez, was conceived to spur tourism and create jobs. (See "Baja targeted for ports, marinas and more"—EcoAméricas, April '01.) Although Semarnat imposed numerous conditions, the project, proposed over two years ago by Mexico's state-run National Fund for Tourism Development (Fonatur), may now proceed unhindered with its first and largest step—the construction or remodeling of 16 marinas. The newly approved impact statement allows for the docking... [Log in to read more]

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November 2003

Brazil

Green groups question Lula's Amazon blueprint

Since taking office in January, left-leaning Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has preached pragmatism and practiced it: curbing inflation, managing Brazil's debt and ......

Mexico

Mexico approves first steps of 'nautical stairway'

Chile

Home Depot brokers Chilean forest accord

Chile's two largest timber companies signed an agreement with environmental groups this month in which they promise to stop logging native forests and to formally ......

Ecuador

Ruling undercuts Ecuador's forestry reform

Innovative efforts to improve oversight of logging in Ecuador, where an estimated 50-70% of cutting is done illegally, have suffered a potentially crippling blow in ......

Brazil

Brazil's transgenics bill greeted cautiously

Environmental and consumer groups are reacting cautiously to a bill that sets the regulatory framework under which Brazil would open its doors permanently to transgenic ......

Around the Region

Tambogrande impact hearings suspended

Public hearings scheduled for this month on a controversial gold and copper-mining project in northern Peru were canceled shortly before they were to have been ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

Sharks pay price as fin trade prospers

Manuel Silva is no hard-line enforcer spoiling for a fight with powerful fishing interests. But last May, the quiet young Costa Rican Coast Guard official ......

Q&A

Wild-plant conservation seen as aid to food security

Of the 10,000 or so plant species that have been used for food throughout human history, only about 150 are cultivated today, and just 12 ......