Tierramérica

Issue of January, 20, 2002



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Report
Monarchs without a Throne
By Diego Cevallos
In their annual 5,000-km migratory ritual, not all monarch butterflies reach protected sanctuaries. Many alight in other locations in Mexico, where the silence of the forest takes them in and anonymity protects them.

Accents
The Return of the "Bird Children"
By Sandra Guijarro
From October to March, the Magellan penguins return to land after months at sea, arriving in southern Chile to mate, creating a stirring spectacle for the humans fortunate enough to observe them.

Connect Yourself
Space Rocks
By
Asteroids stimulate our imaginations about outer space because these relatively small celestial bodies, which share our solar system, pose a danger to life as we know it a large one should happen to collide with Earth.

Eco-Briefs

VENEZUELA: The Transformation of a Zoo
The National Parks Institute proposes to renovate the Las Delicias zoo located in north-central Venezuela at the foot of the Henri Pitier National Park, one of the country's most important nature preserves.

COSTA RICA: Environmental Video Contest
The non-governmental Terra Nostra Association is organizing its third Central American Environmental Video Contest to urge filmmakers to produce audiovisual works with ecological content.

BRAZIL: Ecology at the World Social Forum
Environmental issues will have a prominent role at the World Social Forum II, which from Jan 31 to Feb 5 will draw non-governmental organizations and progressive-minded intellectuals and politicians to Porto Alegre, in southern Brazil, to discuss the construction of "another possible world."

TANZANIA: Hundreds of Elephants Massacred
A stockpile of 1,255 elephant tusks, the product of poaching, was found in Dar es Salaam, the Tanzanian capital, in what the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) called a dramatic wake-up call about the future of the African elephant.

Lessons From a Unique Decade - José Graziano da Silva *
Rio+20 and Beyond: Together for a Sustainable Future - José Graziano da Silva *
Why Inclusive Green Growth Can Sustain Recent Gains in Latin America - Hasan Tuluy*
The Global Food Crisis and the Latin American Paradox - Pamela Cox