Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has introduced a new Hacia Basura Cero (“Towards Zero Waste”) Model for management of solid waste.

There is a growing concern throughout Bolivia regarding the significant effects poor waste treatment and garbage removal have on the health and well-being of those who live near dumping sites.

With anxiety and hope, the community of Brumadinho in southeastern Brazil searched for survivors of the mining catastrophe on Friday, January 25, 2019.

Mexico’s Federal Agency for Environmental Protection (PROFEPA), in coordination with the Mexican Navy (SEMAR), discovered more than 10,000 turtle eggs trapped in nine nylon sacks and abandoned on Morro Ayuta Beach in the San Pedro Huamelula municipality in Oaxaca on January 27.

Government authorization to partially lift the prohibition on the trade of Crocodylus acutus, which has been threatened by mass hunting in the past, has been received with strong disapproval across the country. 

A report from the NGO Global Witness estimates that over 130 thousand harvest areas have been chopped down illegally in Peru over the last ten years.

National parks in Colombia seem to be under attack. Not only the parks themselves, but also their rangers, have recently faced an increase in crime.

Despite providing an opportunity for economic development, the tourism industry in the Colombian Amazon is suffering from a lack of regulation.

Future climatic conditions are uncertain, but the possible development of El Niño could result in less rainfall during the first six months of the year.

Populations of numerous birds prevalent in specific regions of Colombia are being threatened by climate change, according to the 2017 report of The State and Tendencies in Continental Biodiversity in Colombia.