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Measures of biodiversity, Central America

3rd January 2015 Chapter 10 / Biodiversity loss, species loss, and coral loss

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Chapter 10

  • Tourism and protected areas
    • Tinkering with ‘sustainable or eco-tourism’ hides the real face of tourism
    • Tourism, Home Burnings and Territorial Evictions Along The Garífuna Coast in Honduras
    • Tourism, repression and racism against the Garífuna of Honduras
    • ‘Canadian tourism mafia’ file trumped-up charges against Garífuna leader Miriam Miranda in Honduras’ corrupted legal system
    • Tourism in Nicaragua Takes a Hit
    • Tourism Recovery in Nicaragua, January 2020
    • Rio Coco UNESCO Global Geopark
    • The return of cruises to Central America
  • Migration and Remittances
    • Remittances and migration – a possible Trump effect
    • Fleeing Violence in Central America’s Northern Triangle
    • IDB Considers Multimillion Dollar Loan to Impose Migratory Controls across Mexico-Guatemala Border
    • Trump Ends TPS for Honduras
    • Remittances to El Salvador and Nicaragua in 2018
    • Migrants’ stories: Why they flee
    • Stories from the Migrant Caravans from the Northern Triangle Countries
    • Relatos del desplazamiento forzoso por la violencia
    • Remittances to and migration from Central America’s Northern Triangle
    • Thirst, crop failure and cattle deaths result from drought in Honduras
    • How Climate Change Forces Central American Farmers to Migrate
    • Migrants en route to the U.S. trafficked in Mexico
    • Remittances to Central America
    • Nicaraguans in Costa Rica: A Manufactured ‘Refugee’ Crisis
    • Migration and forced displacement in Central America
  • Central America's Canals
    • Trends in the approval / disapproval of El Gran Canal
    • The interoceanic canal – comment by John Perry
    • El Gran Canal… Speculation
    • Panamá Canal Ready for El Niño in 2019
    • Map and longitudinal section of the Panamá Canal.
    • Is the Panama Canal Drying Up?
  • Selected political developments and politicians in Central America
    • New Salvadoran President appoints more women than ever before
    • Political developments in El Salvador
    • Guatemala offers El Salvador a port on the Atlantic Coast.
    • Guatemalan Congress Weakens NGOs
    • Nicaragua en paz – a pesar de los títulares falsos de los medios y las ONGs
    • A headline you won’t read
    • Blockades and a national dialogue in Costa Rica
    • Guatemala / Belize border dispute
    • Bukele moves towards dictatorship and increases his popularity
    • Bukele eyes Bitcoin to renew El Salvador’s economic independence, but the economic and environmental impacts might not add up
  • Plastics and other pollution incidents
    • Government of Panamá searches for incentives to promote recycling
    • Guatemalan Government bans plastics; then repeals ban.
  • Transport infrastructure developments
    • Combatting Vehicle Pollution in Central America
    • Transport initiatives in Costa Rica
    • Is rail making a comeback in Central America?
    • An airport in eastern El Salvador?
    • Electric motoring is still not easy in Costa Rica
  • Fishing
    • Trawl fishing in Costa Rican waters approved but vetoed
  • Climate change, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and carbon credits
    • Note regarding Climate Change
    • ‘Nicaragua will sell carbon credits’
    • An inconvenient truth: climate change and indigenous people
    • Carbon blood money in Honduras
    • The Durban Disaster, by the Global Justice Ecology Project (GJEP)
    • Doha Disappointment
    • Blue Carbon
    • Carbon trading: discredited strategy
    • Carbon neutrality in Costa Rica by 2021?
    • Summary of ‘Myths and Truths about the Paris Agreement on Climate Change (COP-21)’
    • More on Costa Rica’s carbon neutral efforts, 2017
    • Nicaragua Signs Paris Climate Agreement
    • UN Green Climate Fund awards $36 million to El Salvador
    • Cop25: Indemnification to accompany mitigation and adaptation?
    • Nicaragua, COP26, Climate Justice and Reparations
  • Biodiversity loss, species loss, and coral loss
    • Measures of biodiversity, Central America
    • The danger of biodiversity offsetting
    • Coral conference in Belize, 2016
    • Initiatives to protect Belize sea life show good results; but threats remain a worry
    • The lion fish and fish diversity in two protected marine areas of the Caribbean Sea
    • Mass turtle deaths
    • New Deal for Nature: Paying the Emperor to Fence the Wind
    • Costa Rica increases its marine protected areas to pay off its historical debt (1)
    • Wildlife underpasses aid animal migrations

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