Honduran project returning macaws to wild

February 2012

Brazil

Brazil’s ‘subsalt’ drilling raises safety questions

In late January, Brazil experienced its second offshore oil spill in three months. The spill, though small, was the first to occur in the so-called ......

Argentina

Clashes in Argentine Andes over open-pit mining

Images of riot police clashing with protestors have been largely absent from Argentine television screens and front pages since the country’s severe economic downturn and ......

Dominican Republic

Dominican lake shows surprising expansion

Lake Enriquillo, the largest lake in the Caribbean, was shrinking so rapidly in the early 2000s that many feared it would disappear entirely. But less ......

Peru

Peru acts on pair of mining controversies

Moving to resolve two mining controversies, the Peruvian government hired three experts to review an international consortium’s plans for a mine in the country’s northern ......

Paraguay (Free Read)

Surge of land-clearing in Paraguay’s Chaco

Deforestation in Paraguay’s portion of the Gran Chaco jumped 23% last year, according to Guyra Paraguay, a leading Paraguayan environmental organization. The estimate, based on an ......

Around the Region

Ngöbe-Buglé protest Panama hydropower and mining plans

The northern segment of the Inter-American Highway in Panama was closed for eight days this month when over 5,000 members of the Ngöbe-Buglé indigenous group ......

Centerpiece

Honduran project returning macaws to wild

Fifteen hundred years ago, when the Mayan capital of Copán stood at its political apex, the surrounding jungle of what is today western Honduras brimmed ......

Q&A

Lalonde on what to expect—and what not to—at Rio+20

Brice Lalonde of France is one of two executive coordinators of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development being held in Rio de Janeiro June ......

Centerpiece

Honduran project returning macaws to wild

Honduras

Fifteen hundred years ago, when the Mayan capital of Copán stood at its political apex, the surrounding jungle of what is today western Honduras brimmed with scarlet macaws. Mystics viewed the vividly colored birds as envoys sent by the gods, and artists incorporated macaw images into hundreds of the stone sculptures that still adorn the ruins of this once-mighty city. Unfortunately, the Mayans’ modern descendants haven’t treated macaws with the same veneration, despite attempts by the Honduran government to honor and protect the species (Ara macao) as this country’s national bird. A popular pet due to its large and splendidly colorful plumes, the scarlet macaw has been targeted for years by poachers who supply the black-market animal trade. On the Caribbean coast, macaws... [Log in to read more]

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February 2012

Brazil

Brazil’s ‘subsalt’ drilling raises safety questions

In late January, Brazil experienced its second offshore oil spill in three months. The spill, though small, was the first to occur in the so-called ......

Argentina

Clashes in Argentine Andes over open-pit mining

Images of riot police clashing with protestors have been largely absent from Argentine television screens and front pages since the country’s severe economic downturn and ......

Dominican Republic

Dominican lake shows surprising expansion

Lake Enriquillo, the largest lake in the Caribbean, was shrinking so rapidly in the early 2000s that many feared it would disappear entirely. But less ......

Peru

Peru acts on pair of mining controversies

Moving to resolve two mining controversies, the Peruvian government hired three experts to review an international consortium’s plans for a mine in the country’s northern ......

Paraguay (Free Read)

Surge of land-clearing in Paraguay’s Chaco

Deforestation in Paraguay’s portion of the Gran Chaco jumped 23% last year, according to Guyra Paraguay, a leading Paraguayan environmental organization. The estimate, based on an ......

Around the Region

Ngöbe-Buglé protest Panama hydropower and mining plans

The northern segment of the Inter-American Highway in Panama was closed for eight days this month when over 5,000 members of the Ngöbe-Buglé indigenous group ......

Centerpiece

Honduran project returning macaws to wild

Fifteen hundred years ago, when the Mayan capital of Copán stood at its political apex, the surrounding jungle of what is today western Honduras brimmed ......

Q&A

Lalonde on what to expect—and what not to—at Rio+20

Brice Lalonde of France is one of two executive coordinators of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development being held in Rio de Janeiro June ......