It represents “two years” of work and research on the government’s plan. 

An assessment of the economic value of protecting the Sierra del Divisor through the creation of a national park points to both risks and opportunities for Peru.  

Senator Euclides Sánchez says that when it comes to protecting the environment, Dominicans “behave like animals,” with no awareness of the “lurking perils.” 

The country has lost 61% of its old growth, but the government and social organizations have a proposal to recover 3.9 million hectares of forest within 60 years.

There is an Ecuadorian campaign afoot to persuade Brad Pitt not to make a movie, while Chevron’s activities have reportedly polluted wells. 

Pope Francis warned “the powerful of the earth” that they will suffer the wrath of God if they do nothing to ensure the protection of the environment, which is the key to maintaining viable food sources on the planet. 

Researchers are in the process of collecting parasites from the blood of animals such as sloths in forests of Panama.

A study by UK-based NGO, Global Witness, found that in Brazil there were 29 activists killed in 2014. 

A unique species first cataloged by French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau in 1969, the Giant Frog is in danger of dying off because of massive waste on the Bolivian side of the lake. 

Latin American environmentalism “partly overlaps with and partly diverges from” that of other continents, and has strengths and weaknesses.