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Biodiversity Report from Americas Program of CIP—August 2009


By Carmelo Ruiz Marrero

Puerto Rico: Ecological Corridor Campaign
The Pro-Northeast Ecological Corridor Coalition (Coalición Pro Corredor Ecológico Noreste) has initiated a massive campaign directed at Governor Luis Fortuño to designate the area known as the Northeast Ecological Corridor (CEN) a natural reserve.

Uruguay and Brazil: Genetically Modified Products and Agro-toxins Go Hand in Hand
Contrary to biotech industry propaganda, genetically modified (GM) crops have not reduced the use of toxic agrochemicals. In fact, they are causing an increase in their use, according to the organization RAPAL-Uruguay.

Argentina: A Catastrophe Called Soy
"After 13 years of expansion in the cultivation of GM soy in Argentina, the socio-environmental consequences are a real catastrophe," reports the organization GRAIN.

Biochar, a False Solution to Global Warming
A growing number of Latin American organizations are joining an international declaration against the massive production of "biochar" (charcoal derived from burnt plant material) as a way to combat global warming.

Tree Plantations are not Forests
"The tree plantations are areas of industrialized and artificial existence," says a columnist from the magazine Biodiversidad, Sustento y Cultura, whose front page is dedicated to tree monoculture. "Its homogeneity is rampant, stifling.”

http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6365


Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero is a Puerto Rican independent environmental journalist and environmental analyst for the Americas Program (www.americaspolicy.org), a fellow of the Oakland Institute, a senior fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program, and founder/director of the Puerto Rico Project on Biosafety (bioseguridad.blogspot.com). His bilingual web page (carmeloruiz.blogspot.com) is devoted to global environment and development issues.


More from the Americas Program:

    Biodiversity Report from the Americas Program of CIP—July 2009
    http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6318
    Biodiversity Report from the Americas Program of CIP—June 2009
    http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6268
    May Biodiversity Report from the Americas Program
    http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6121




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