Lina Pohl, the minister of Environment and Natural Resources (MARN), declared an “environmental emergency” in the factory of El Salvador Batteries (BAES) with the intention of removing the ashes and slag with lead that are found in the interior of the industrial plant.

El Ciudadano reported that the Galápagos National Park Service (DPNG) installed two camps for monitoring the beginning of the sea turtle nesting period in the Galápagos reservoir.

The cargo ship, Yacu Kallpa, was stopped at the Mexican port of Tampico where all of the illegal wood on it was embargoed.

Petro-Peru will be fined for around $59 million for oil spills. The company calculated that around 3 thousand barrels of oil had been spilled, while 300 people work on its restoration.

A study conducted by the National University determined that the soil belonging to the Van der Hammen forest reserve is some of the best in the country, concluding that it would be a mistake to   urbanize that area of the capital.

San José will host wildlife experts from all over the world to discuss the international protection for shark and ray species. The meeting will be a tense one because of Costa Rica’s recent backlash regarding their shark conservation records.

Mexico is home to miles and miles of the precious ecosystem. On World Wetlands Day, officials reported that in the past five years the National Forestry Commission (CONAFOR) has rehabilitated 299 thousand hectares of wetlands.

Rat or fish or both? Taxi drivers near the airport in Colombia reported the sighting of a medium sized rat with a fish tail around 5pm on Monday.

Chilean officials finally take action to make environmental damage a criminal offense. 

Floods hit four South American countries hard leaving a wake of damage.  The recent flooding from the Paraná and Uruguay Rivers in South America have left many families homeless and revealed serious issues regarding the environment in four specific countries; Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.