Manager of protected area is murdered in southern Mexico

June 2019

Ecuador

Decree rekindles Yasuní Park oil-drilling concerns

Thirteen years since the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) called for protection of two Ecuadorian indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation—the Tagaeri and Taromenane—indigenous-rights ......

U.S.–Mexico

Private border-fence scheme surprises U.S. town

The controversial construction of an 18-foot-tall, half-mile-long fence on the outskirts of the U.S.-Mexican border town of Sunland Park, New Mexico, has stoked political tension, ......

Argentina

Argentine high court upholds historic glacier law

One of Argentina’s hardest-fought environmental battles in recent years took a favorable turn for conservationists this month when the country’s Supreme Court upheld an ambitious ......

Chile

Chile’s coal-plant phaseout rapped as too gradual

Six months before his country is scheduled to host the world’s next climate summit, Chilean President Sebastián Piñera on June 4 announced a plan under ......

Brazil

Green advocates lose clout on Brazil policy board

Civil society members of Brazil’s National Environment Council (Conama), the country’s main environmental policy-making body, are condemning a new decree under which the administration of ......

Around the Region

Manager of protected area is murdered in southern Mexico

The manager of a protected area in southern Mexico was shot to death this month after he had alerted authorities about the illegal extraction of ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

Warning sounds for white-lipped peccary

For centuries, the white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari) ranged in herds of up to 120 animals through much of Mesoamerica, helping to maintain the ecological balance ......

Q&A

Too many Gulf of California artisanal fishers for resource to bear

Mexican oceanographer Alfredo Girón, a researcher at the University of California at Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), worries about the ......

Manager of protected area is murdered in southern Mexico

The manager of a protected area in southern Mexico was shot to death this month after he had alerted authorities about the illegal extraction of sand and rock from a river. The body of José Luis Álvarez, 64, was discovered on June 10 on the side of a highway in Palenque municipality in Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas. Next to his body authorities found threatening messages directed at his family and colleagues, according to the forest reserve he oversaw in the state of Tabasco—the Saraguatos Wildlife Management Unit (UMA Saraguatos), a division of Mexico’s Environment and Natural Resources Secretariat (Semarnat). The 345-hectare (853-acre) UMA Saraguatos, which includes a preserve for mantled howler monkeys (Alouatta pigra), extends from the community of Chablé to the town of Emiliano Zapata. It is home not only to hundreds of mantled howler monkeys, but also to species including green iguanas (Iguana iguana... [Log in to read more]

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June 2019

Ecuador

Decree rekindles Yasuní Park oil-drilling concerns

U.S.–Mexico

Private border-fence scheme surprises U.S. town

The controversial construction of an 18-foot-tall, half-mile-long fence on the outskirts of the U.S.-Mexican border town of Sunland Park, New Mexico, has stoked political tension, ......

Argentina

Argentine high court upholds historic glacier law

One of Argentina’s hardest-fought environmental battles in recent years took a favorable turn for conservationists this month when the country’s Supreme Court upheld an ambitious ......

Chile

Chile’s coal-plant phaseout rapped as too gradual

Six months before his country is scheduled to host the world’s next climate summit, Chilean President Sebastián Piñera on June 4 announced a plan under ......

Brazil

Green advocates lose clout on Brazil policy board

Civil society members of Brazil’s National Environment Council (Conama), the country’s main environmental policy-making body, are condemning a new decree under which the administration of ......

Around the Region

Manager of protected area is murdered in southern Mexico

The manager of a protected area in southern Mexico was shot to death this month after he had alerted authorities about the illegal extraction of ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

Warning sounds for white-lipped peccary

For centuries, the white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari) ranged in herds of up to 120 animals through much of Mesoamerica, helping to maintain the ecological balance ......

Q&A

Too many Gulf of California artisanal fishers for resource to bear

Mexican oceanographer Alfredo Girón, a researcher at the University of California at Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), worries about the ......