Events in Pará state put spotlight on logging

February 2005

Mexico

Pemex says bulk of oil-pipeline network “at risk”

Oil spills on Mexico’s Gulf coast have raised questions about the ability and commitment of the country’s national oil company to limit environmental risks. In a ......

Alarmed by the rapid decline in spectacled-bear populations, Colombian environmental authorities and non-governmental organizations have launched a variety of initiatives to boost protection of the ......

Guatemala

Guatemala puts metal-mining plans on hold

Persistent opposition to mining projects here has forced the Guatemalan government to declare a moratorium on metal-extraction licenses and adopt—at least temporarily—a go-slow approach in ......

Brazil

Events in Pará state put spotlight on logging

Two disparate developments this month—the murder of an American nun and a government decision to reinstate 14 logging licenses—have administered a double dose of public ......

Brazil

Brazil approves coastal-management rules

Nearly 17 years after enacting national coastal-management legislation, Brazilian authorities have set specific guidelines for implementing the law. A Dec. 7 decree by Brazilian President Luiz ......

Around the Region

Buenos Aires needs new landfill, but lacks a host

The Buenos Aires metropolitan area’s difficulties in finding a new place to dump its daily output of 12,000 tons of garbage have gone from annoying ......

Centerpiece

Growing pains again on Easter Island

Whenever she sees smoke curling over the horizon, Paula Tepano instinctively grabs her two-way radio. If she’s lucky—if the battery is still charged after a ......

Q&A

Testing two views of trade’s environmental impacts

Discussion of free trade’s environmental effects on developing countries often features the clash of two opposing yet widely held beliefs. According to one, environmental protection ......

Events in Pará state put spotlight on logging

Brazil

Two disparate developments this month—the murder of an American nun and a government decision to reinstate 14 logging licenses—have administered a double dose of public attention to deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon state of Pará. By far the higher-profile of the two events was the Feb. 12 killing of Dorothy Stang, a 73-year-old nun who had worked for years in Pará promoting small-scale sustainable farming and forestry while opposing illegal land grabs and deforestation by large-scale loggers and ranchers. (See “Brazil conflicted over road paving plan,”—EcoAméricas, June ’03.) Stang, formerly of Dayton, Ohio, was gunned down in a small settlement near the town of Anapu, about 435 miles (700 kms) southwest of the Pará state capital of... [Log in to read more]

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February 2005

Mexico

Pemex says bulk of oil-pipeline network “at risk”

Oil spills on Mexico’s Gulf coast have raised questions about the ability and commitment of the country’s national oil company to limit environmental risks. In a ......

Colombia (Free Read)

Push to save South America’s lone bear species

Guatemala

Guatemala puts metal-mining plans on hold

Persistent opposition to mining projects here has forced the Guatemalan government to declare a moratorium on metal-extraction licenses and adopt—at least temporarily—a go-slow approach in ......

Brazil

Events in Pará state put spotlight on logging

Two disparate developments this month—the murder of an American nun and a government decision to reinstate 14 logging licenses—have administered a double dose of public ......

Brazil

Brazil approves coastal-management rules

Nearly 17 years after enacting national coastal-management legislation, Brazilian authorities have set specific guidelines for implementing the law. A Dec. 7 decree by Brazilian President Luiz ......

Around the Region

Buenos Aires needs new landfill, but lacks a host

The Buenos Aires metropolitan area’s difficulties in finding a new place to dump its daily output of 12,000 tons of garbage have gone from annoying ......

Centerpiece

Growing pains again on Easter Island

Whenever she sees smoke curling over the horizon, Paula Tepano instinctively grabs her two-way radio. If she’s lucky—if the battery is still charged after a ......

Q&A

Testing two views of trade’s environmental impacts

Discussion of free trade’s environmental effects on developing countries often features the clash of two opposing yet widely held beliefs. According to one, environmental protection ......