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Digest of Socio-Ecological Union International for July 18, 2021. №29
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Опубликовано Святослав Забелин - 18.07.21
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Digest of Socio-Ecological Union International for July 18, 2021. №29
The alleged mastermind of the 2016 killing of environmental and Indigenous rights activist Berta Cáceres was convicted of homicide by a Honduran court on Monday. Roberto David Castillo Mejía, the former head of the hydropower company Desarrollos Energéticos (Desa) and an ex-army intelligence officer,
David Castillo Mejía, the hydroelectric company executive arrested for orchestrating the murder of activist Berta Cáceres, in the custody of Honduran authorities in 2018. Photo credit: the Attorney General’s office of the Republic of Honduras.
Cáceres was gunned down in her home on March 2, 2016 at the age of 44 after leading opposition to the Agua Zarca dam, which was to be built on the Rio Galcarque, a river that is sacred to the local Lenca people. Cáceres — herself Lenca — was the co-founder the National Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH).
Berta Caceres at the banks of the Gualcarque River in the Rio Blanco region of western Honduras. Photo credit: The Goldman Prize.
Cáceres was recognized for her activism against the dam in 2015 when she won the prestigious
A mural of murdered activists Berta Cáceres in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Photo by disoniador via Pixabay.
Castillo Mejía is the eighth person to be convicted in the murder.
Castillo Mejía is set to be sentenced in August and is expected to receive 24 to 30 years for allegedly financing the hit and providing support to the hitmen, according to prosecutors.
Europe Unveils Plan to Shift From Fossil Fuels, Setting Up Potential Trade Spats. The proposal would impose tariffs on some imports from countries with looser environmental rules. It would also mean the end of sales in the European Union of new gas- and diesel-powered cars in just 14 years. In what may be a seminal moment in the global effort to fight climate change,
Wind turbines near an open-cast mining site and the coal-fired Neurath power station in western Germany.Credit...Ina Fassbender/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
The most radical, and possibly contentious, proposal would impose tariffs on certain imports from countries with less stringent climate-protection rules. The
Greenland's natural resources minister Naaja Nathanielsen said the environment and climatic impacts of further oil and gas extraction had been assessed as being "too high" when weighed against potential financial gains, and was therefore
Greenland's new government campaigned against the resource extraction projects seen by others on the island as a route towards financial and political independence from Denmark
"The future does not lie in oil. The future belongs to renewable energy, and in that respect we have much more to gain," the cabinet said, stressing sustainable farming of its natural resources such as fisheries stemming from Inuit traditions. Energy minister Kalistat Lund said Greenland was experiencing "the consequences of climate change in our country every day" and took " climate change seriously."
Nine districts in Indonesia have pledged to protect 50% of forests, peatlands and other “important ecosystems” in their jurisdictions by 2030, local leaders announced last week. Spread across three islands and six provinces, the districts of Siak, Musi Banyuasin, Sintang, Sigi, Gorontalo, Bone Bolango, Aceh Tamiang, Sanggau and Kapuas Hulu are members of the
Deforestation in Indonesian Borneo in 2019. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.
After the 1998 fall of the dictator Suharto, broad powers over land-use planning and licensing were devolved from Jakarta to the nation’s districts, giving them considerable sway over the fate of the nation’s rainforests and peatlands, among the most extensive in the world. In recent years, however, some of those powers have been transferred back to the provincial and central government levels. Last week’s declaration, called the “Declaration of a Vision for Sustainable Districts 2030,” follows the 2018 Manokwari Declaration by the governors of Papua and West Papua provinces, who
Conservation and climate action groups on Thursday applauded the U.S. Department of Agriculture's announcement of far-reaching new protections for Alaska's Tongass National Forest as well as a restoration of a key rule that former President Donald Trump rescinded three months before leaving office in a bid to open millions of acres to industrial logging.
An ocean inlet in Misty Fjords National Monument, part of the Tongass National Forest.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack
Giant pandas are no longer classified as endangered but are still vulnerable, Chinese officials say. The classification was downgraded as their number in the wild has reached 1,800. Experts say that the country managed to save its iconic animal through its long-term conservation efforts, including the expansion of habitats. China considers pandas a national treasure, but have also loaned them to other countries as diplomatic tools.
Giant pandas are no longer classified as "endangered" - but are still "vulnerable"
The latest classification upgrade "reflects their improved living conditions and China's efforts in keeping their habitats integrated", said Cui Shuhong, head of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment's Department of Nature and Ecology Conservation at a news conference. The new classification comes years after the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) had already removed the animal from its endangered species list and
The registration of the Far Eastern stork, which is currently being completed in the Amur region with the support of WWF Russia, has shown a record increase in the number of this rare bird in the entire history of regular observations. The number of breeding pairs in the Russian part of the Amur basin is approaching 1000, and the total number of storks is estimated at about 5.5 thousand individuals.
Nest on a wooden support. Fotos by Anton Sasin
In key stork nesting areas, the Foundation's partners-public organizations, federal and regional protected areas - with the support of WWF Russia, carried out a huge amount of work to install artificial supports for nests in places where there were not enough nesting trees.
Nest on the power line facility. Fotos by Anton Sasin
The problem of conflicts between storks and humans when nesting birds on power transmission poles has been practically solved, and the largest electric grid companies in the region are implementing multi-year programs to ensure safe nesting of storks at network facilities. The fight against illegal fishing in stork habitats, which undermines the stork's food base, is being successfully conducted.
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