News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 672
ECUADOR: Avatar Downfall a Blow for Indigenous Communities
- Inter Press Service
Science fiction blockbuster Avatar was the big loser in the Oscar awards ceremony - not only a blow for director James Cameron but also seen as a symbolic reverse in the struggle to recover Amazon rainforest areas in Ecuador from the effects of oil pollution.
PERU: Suspension of Mining Operation Merely a Placebo
- Inter Press Service
Although the Peruvian government reported that it had suspended the exploration activities of the Afrodita mining company in the country's northern Amazon jungle region to avoid further protests by local indigenous people, officials took no actual steps to bring the firm's work to a halt.
ENVIRONMENT: Violent Backlash Against Climate Scientists
- Inter Press Service
Climate change science has come under full-scale attack in a last-ditch effort to delay or prevent action by the U.S. government against global warming, experts warn.
MALAWI: Patrilineal Inheritance Prevents Women’s Access to Land
- Inter Press Service
Mercy Gondwe, 51, from Rumphi in northern Malawi, was married for 34 years. When her husband died in 2008, she assumed she would inherit the land they had been cultivating together since they got married. But this was not the case.
DEVELOPMENT-SRI LANKA: Water Woes Fall on Women’s Shoulders
- Inter Press Service
As a wife of a rice farmer and mother of two children aged nine and two, Sanjeevani Bandara’s days are packed with chores. Yet while she used to be able to keep up with all she has to do in a day, this Sri Lankan mother now finds herself struggling to accomplish even the most basic tasks.
ENVIRONMENT-MEXICO: Green Areas to the Highest Bidder
- Inter Press Service
Activists in Mexico complain that the deforestation threatening the environmental health of Mexico has been accentuated by the granting of public areas to private companies.
EUROPE: Green Finance Wise, or Otherwise
- Inter Press Service
A plan to give the European Union's lending arm a beefed-up mandate for financing the fight against climate change has drawn a sceptical response from campaigners on green and economic justice issues.
MEXICO: Scientists Reinvent the Corn Tortilla
- Inter Press Service
The process of making corn tortillas - the filling, age-old traditional food throughout much of Mexico and Central America - pollutes huge volumes of water and consumes a great deal of energy.
MALAWI: Climate Change Is Changing Farming Methods
- Inter Press Service
As they slept soundly on the night of Feb. 28, a family of four was killed when their house collapsed over their heads in Malawi’s southern district of Chikhwawa.
BIODIVERSITY: CITES Faces Political Storm over Tuna Ban
- Inter Press Service
The vast majority of the species protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES, live on land, but as marine species come under increasing pressure from unsustainable fishing and a range of climate change-related threats that focus is beginning to shift.
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