Region looms large, again, in advocate-murder tally

September 2024

Argentina

Shale oil and gas plans fueling concerns in Patagonia

Argentine economic expectations surged in 2011, when the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported that the country possessed among the world’s largest shale oil and shale ......

Region (Free Read)

Pushback builds against shrimp-trawling on seafloor

Given the extensive damage it does to the seafloor, bottom-trawling for shrimp can be likened to felling forests to catch squirrels. Quite valuable squirrels, to ......

Brazil

Fires damage Brazil’s four most biodiverse biomes

The wildfires closed in on Brazil’s Hyacinth Macaw Institute on Aug. 1. Within a week, they had torched two thirds of the nonprofit institute’s 54,000-hectare ......

Region

Conferees to detail biodiversity-conservation plans

Representatives of nearly 200 countries are scheduled to gather in Cali, Colombia next month to try to make global biodiversity conservation real. The occasion is ......

Region

Region looms large, again, in advocate-murder tally

As a report issued this month underscored Latin America’s dubious distinction as the world’s deadliest region for environmental and land-rights defenders, the murder in Honduras ......

Around the Region

Campaign seeks to recognize rights for Chile’s Biobío River

Six Chilean and international organizations announced in September a “Declaration of Rights of the Biobío River” that aims to spark a locally based movement ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

Oil stresses Peru’s land and Indigenous peoples

On a muggy morning in mid-August, a dozen leaders from four Indigenous communities in Peru’s lower Marañón River Valley crowded into the second-floor courtroom in ......

Q&A

Aquaculture expert Dane Klinger aims to make shrimp farms greener

With bottom-trawling for shrimp widely viewed as irredeemably destructive (see related story—this issue), shrimp-farming is often portrayed as a more benign means of producing the ......

Region looms large, again, in advocate-murder tally

Region

This image of Juan López was displayed during a Sept. 23 prayer service held for him in Tocoa, Honduras. It was posted by an emergency delegation, organized by the U.S.-based SHARE Foundation, that visited López’s family in Tocoa, Honduras, following his murder.

As a report issued this month underscored Latin America’s dubious distinction as the world’s deadliest region for environmental and land-rights defenders, the murder in Honduras of a respected green activist signaled the trend is unlikely to ease anytime soon. The Honduran victim was Juan López, a municipal council member of Tocoa, in the northern department of Colón. Witnesses say López, a husband and the father of two daughters, was shot on Sept. 14, shortly after leaving a church, by a man who approached his car. As an activist and municipal leader, López led opposition to mining in nearby Carlos Escaleras Mejía Botaderos Mountain National Park, a key water source in the region. He also had accused the municipality’s mayor of irregularities and, two days before he was killed, called for the mayor’s resignation. The murder echoed the findings of the latest annual report by Global Witness, a London-based... [Log in to read more]

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September 2024

Argentina

Shale oil and gas plans fueling concerns in Patagonia

Argentine economic expectations surged in 2011, when the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported that the country possessed among the world’s largest shale oil and shale ......

Region (Free Read)

Pushback builds against shrimp-trawling on seafloor

Given the extensive damage it does to the seafloor, bottom-trawling for shrimp can be likened to felling forests to catch squirrels. Quite valuable squirrels, to ......

Brazil

Fires damage Brazil’s four most biodiverse biomes

The wildfires closed in on Brazil’s Hyacinth Macaw Institute on Aug. 1. Within a week, they had torched two thirds of the nonprofit institute’s 54,000-hectare ......

Region

Conferees to detail biodiversity-conservation plans

Representatives of nearly 200 countries are scheduled to gather in Cali, Colombia next month to try to make global biodiversity conservation real. The occasion is ......

Region

Region looms large, again, in advocate-murder tally

As a report issued this month underscored Latin America’s dubious distinction as the world’s deadliest region for environmental and land-rights defenders, the murder in Honduras ......

Around the Region

Campaign seeks to recognize rights for Chile’s Biobío River

Six Chilean and international organizations announced in September a “Declaration of Rights of the Biobío River” that aims to spark a locally based movement ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

Oil stresses Peru’s land and Indigenous peoples

On a muggy morning in mid-August, a dozen leaders from four Indigenous communities in Peru’s lower Marañón River Valley crowded into the second-floor courtroom in ......

Q&A

Aquaculture expert Dane Klinger aims to make shrimp farms greener

With bottom-trawling for shrimp widely viewed as irredeemably destructive (see related story—this issue), shrimp-farming is often portrayed as a more benign means of producing the ......