EcoAmericas - Latin American environmental news coverage

September 2001

Ecuador (Free Read)

“Oil project of the decade” targets Amazon park

Ecuador’s state-owned oil company is beginning what officials here call the “oil project of the decade,” an effort likely to draw intense local and international ......

Brazil

Sarney Filho surprises Brazilian environmentalists

When Brazilian Environment Minister José Sarney Filho took office in early 1999, green advocates dismissed him as yet another product of political nepotism. He certainly doesn’t ......

Venezuela

Power is on, thanks to fragile agreement

Two years after Pemón Indians toppled newly built transmission towers here to protest Venezuela’s plan to send electricity to Brazil, power is flowing across the ......

Brazil

Massive Amazon tract slated for protection

The Brazilian government has agreed to grant protected status to a 49.4-million-acre (20-million-hectare) swath of Amazon rainforest, an area more than half the size of ......

Argentina

Plan drafted in Argentina to eliminate PCBs

Argentina has stepped up efforts to rid itself of polychlorinated biphenyls, drafting a National Plan for the Minimization and Elimination of PCBs. Unveiled in March and ......

Around the Region (Free Read)

Nicaraguan law aims to boost mine investment

Nicaragua has enacted a new mining law in hopes of bringing foreign investment to an industry that hasn’t seen a significant new project since the ......

Centerpiece

Brazil’s landless movement going organic

About 40 people are sitting along trestle tables, tucking into huge plates of rice, beans, chicken, pork, cabbage and chuchu (a green vegetable). The ......

Q&A

Chile sees no place for sanctions in environment pact

Alvaro Sapag has headed the legal department of Chile’s National Environment Commission (Conama) since 1998. The University of Chile-trained lawyer worked in the private sector ......

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