EcoAmericas - Latin American environmental news coverage

October 2000

Brazil

Brazil launches pioneering waste-control effort

Back in February, President Henrique Cardoso asked Brazilians in a weekly radio address to support a mission he termed “basic for your life, for the ......

Mexico

On remote Mexican isle, the locusts have horns...

A top a volcanic island ridge 3,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean, Exequiel Ezcurra and Clark Winchell are hugging trees. Actually, they’re reaching around pines ......

Venezuela

Industry pans Venezuelan environment bill

Critiquing a government proposal to overhaul this country’s environmental laws, the Venezuelan-American Chamber of Commerce (VenAmCham) did not hide its alarm. “No less than 195 ......

Guatemala

Environment might gain clout in Guatemala

Guatemala’s national cabinet soon will grow to include an environment ministry if all goes according to the plan of President Alfonso Portillo Cabrera. Announced in August, ......

Ecotourism (Free Read)

WWF study raps Green Globe certification

Tourism certification has come under fire following a scathing Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) criticism of Green Globe 21, a prominent sustainable-tourism standard. Some 500 hotels ......

Around the Region

Decimated Brazilian tribe wins damages

A Brazilian court has ordered the government to pay the Panará Indians $330,000, ruling that construction of a road across their land in the 1970s ......

Centerpiece

Mega-mines raise environmental stakes

Every year, thousands of climbers, hikers and other tourists flock to this central Andean town to immerse themselves in mountain scenery studded with 50 peaks ......

Q&A

Amid political turmoil, Massei outlines bold agenda

Oscar Massei heads Argentina’s Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy Secretariat, a division of the Social Development and Environment Ministry. He is a member of the ......

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