Miskitos call Nicaraguan ban counterproductive

October 2006

Peru

Decades of Amazon oil pollution at issue in Peru

Residents of this indigenous Achuar village in the Peruvian Amazon used to fetch water from Little Trompeterillo Creek. A look at the creek today, ......

Nicaragua

Miskitos call Nicaraguan ban counterproductive

Miskito Indian leaders from Nicaragua’s Atlantic coast are criticizing a new law that has banned most logging and timber exports for the next 10 years, ......

Mexico (Free Read)

Mexico unveils new pollution-data sources

Mexico has taken two major steps to quantify its output of pollutants and make the data available to the public. In August, the government unveiled an ......

Chile

In reversal, Chile to weigh nuclear power

Forecasts questioning Chile’s ability to meet its energy needs in the years ahead have given rise to debate about whether the country should consider building ......

Guatemala

Guatemala, U.S. forge debt-for-nature swap

Guatemala and the United States this month announced the biggest debt-for-nature swap ever granted under the U.S. Tropical Forest Conservation Act, the 1998 law that ......

Around the Region

Halt ordered to work on big Mexican dam

A Mexican judge has ordered the country’s electric-power authority to suspend work on the 900-megawatt La Parota dam planned near the Pacific coast resort of ......

Centerpiece

Some cause for hope in sea-turtle battle

Fourteen years ago, Colombian green activist Hugo Ortega spotted a leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) laying eggs near Acandí, a community on this country’s Caribbean coast ......

Q&A

Bolivia’s Iporre wants public input in green policies

Juan Carlos Iporre Salguero was a farmer in Rurrenabaque, a rainforest town in northwest Bolivia, when Bolivian President Evo Morales asked him this year to ......

Miskitos call Nicaraguan ban counterproductive

Nicaragua

Miskito Indian leaders from Nicaragua’s Atlantic coast are criticizing a new law that has banned most logging and timber exports for the next 10 years, claiming it thwarts crucial sustainable development efforts. Facing rampant deforestation and corruption within the logging industry, the government in June passed the Logging Moratorium Law (Law 585), an emergency measure that establishes a nationwide ban on the cutting and sale of mahogany, cedar, pochote, mangrove and ceiba. The law, which took effect June 21, also bans all logging in and around protected areas, and within nine miles (15 kms) of the country’s borders with Costa Rica and Honduras. And it prohibits the export in plank or roll form of any wood not subject to the cutting ban. Only legally cut... [Log in to read more]

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October 2006

Peru

Decades of Amazon oil pollution at issue in Peru

Residents of this indigenous Achuar village in the Peruvian Amazon used to fetch water from Little Trompeterillo Creek. A look at the creek today, ......

Nicaragua

Miskitos call Nicaraguan ban counterproductive

Miskito Indian leaders from Nicaragua’s Atlantic coast are criticizing a new law that has banned most logging and timber exports for the next 10 years, ......

Mexico (Free Read)

Mexico unveils new pollution-data sources

Mexico has taken two major steps to quantify its output of pollutants and make the data available to the public. In August, the government unveiled an ......

Chile

In reversal, Chile to weigh nuclear power

Forecasts questioning Chile’s ability to meet its energy needs in the years ahead have given rise to debate about whether the country should consider building ......

Guatemala

Guatemala, U.S. forge debt-for-nature swap

Guatemala and the United States this month announced the biggest debt-for-nature swap ever granted under the U.S. Tropical Forest Conservation Act, the 1998 law that ......

Around the Region

Halt ordered to work on big Mexican dam

A Mexican judge has ordered the country’s electric-power authority to suspend work on the 900-megawatt La Parota dam planned near the Pacific coast resort of ......

Centerpiece

Some cause for hope in sea-turtle battle

Fourteen years ago, Colombian green activist Hugo Ortega spotted a leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) laying eggs near Acandí, a community on this country’s Caribbean coast ......

Q&A

Bolivia’s Iporre wants public input in green policies

Juan Carlos Iporre Salguero was a farmer in Rurrenabaque, a rainforest town in northwest Bolivia, when Bolivian President Evo Morales asked him this year to ......