Agency takeover of port roils Mexican town

April 2011

Region

Opposition to open-pit mining intensifies in region

In a country where environmental dissent has historically been confined to green activists and forest dwellers, the Feb. 25 march by 40,000 people in the ......

Nicaragua

On Mosquito Coast, turtle slaughter is way of life

Gilbert Brown hunches over an endangered green sea turtle stashed under his pile dwelling on the Caribbean shore. The ancient creature has been flipped on ......

Paraguay

In Paraguay, a test for economic incentives

Mulling how to curb deforestation in Paraguay, Alberto Yanosky throws his hands up in despair. Land clearing has reduced the country’s eastern Atlantic Forest to ......

Argentina

Argentine glacier law slow to take effect

Six months ago, Argentine President Cristina Kirchner signed a landmark glacier-protection law hailed by green advocates as a means of ensuring the country’s fast-expanding mining ......

Around the Region

Amazon’s drought last year said to be worst in century

A new study concludes that last year’s drought in the Amazon was the worst in over 100 years and put severe stress on the rainforest ......

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Residents form ecotourism corridor in Peru

On a bluff overlooking the Tambopata River, Beatriz Yabar Álvarez raised nine children in the simple, tree-fringed family homestead where she has lived for more ......

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Scientist puts last year’s Amazon drought in context

The Amazon rainforest contains a great deal of carbon, probably as much as 120 billion metric tons. Moreover, it is widely considered by scientists to ......

Agency takeover of port roils Mexican town

Mexico

Long-running conflicts over tourism development and environmental preservation are boiling over in Mexico’s Pacific coast resort of Zihuatanejo, Guerrero state. The immediate flashpoint concerns the future of the old municipal pier used by small-boat owners and by tenders that transfer passengers from cruise ships anchored in the bay. In a move to modernize the facility, the federal Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (SCT) has granted a 25-year concession, turning over management of the pier and the port from the SCT to a federal agency active in tourism promotion—the National Fund for Tourism Development (Fonatur). The concession also covers pier and port facilities in the polluted Salinas Lagoon, which flows into Zihuatanejo Bay, as well as the Barra de Potosí, a lagoon... [Log in to read more]

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April 2011

Region

Opposition to open-pit mining intensifies in region

In a country where environmental dissent has historically been confined to green activists and forest dwellers, the Feb. 25 march by 40,000 people in the ......

Nicaragua

On Mosquito Coast, turtle slaughter is way of life

Gilbert Brown hunches over an endangered green sea turtle stashed under his pile dwelling on the Caribbean shore. The ancient creature has been flipped on ......

Paraguay

In Paraguay, a test for economic incentives

Mulling how to curb deforestation in Paraguay, Alberto Yanosky throws his hands up in despair. Land clearing has reduced the country’s eastern Atlantic Forest to ......

Argentina

Argentine glacier law slow to take effect

Six months ago, Argentine President Cristina Kirchner signed a landmark glacier-protection law hailed by green advocates as a means of ensuring the country’s fast-expanding mining ......

Mexico

Agency takeover of port roils Mexican town

Around the Region

Amazon’s drought last year said to be worst in century

A new study concludes that last year’s drought in the Amazon was the worst in over 100 years and put severe stress on the rainforest ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

Residents form ecotourism corridor in Peru

On a bluff overlooking the Tambopata River, Beatriz Yabar Álvarez raised nine children in the simple, tree-fringed family homestead where she has lived for more ......

Q&A

Scientist puts last year’s Amazon drought in context

The Amazon rainforest contains a great deal of carbon, probably as much as 120 billion metric tons. Moreover, it is widely considered by scientists to ......