An editorial in the NY Times opposing dams in Patagonia and supporting the protesters. (via Chris Shaw)
Patagonia Without Dams - New York Times
It's been five years since my first real trip down the Usumacinta River. The photo above is from an impromptu demonstration which our group in 2003 staged in defense of the river.
Tomorrow, March 14 is the 2008 International Day of Action for Rivers.
Mesoamerica | International Rivers
The fight to prevent dams on Southeast Asia’s last longest remaining free flowing river. Other news on threatened rivers linked from this site as well.
From Dan Phiffer via Boing Boing.
Left: All the water in the world (1.4087 billion cubic kilometres of it) including sea water, ice, lakes, rivers, ground water, clouds, etc. Right: All the air in the atmosphere (5140 trillion tonnes of it) gathered into a ball at sea-level density. Shown on the same scale as the Earth.
Champion of India's lepers and outcastes. The Indian government liked that. But they didn't like his activism in preserving rivers and opposing dams. He died in February at age 93.
Baba Amte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guess I should know this song, by a group called La Barranca. Here are the lyrics.
Amazon.com: El Fluir: La Barranca: Music
In the Sierra del Lacandon Park, in an area where illegal settlers were evicted in 2006 - eight leaders of new invasions are being sought by authorities.
Accompanying Guatemalan news video shows the settlements and the families who were removed. In a country still recovering from a civil war, seeing soldiers evicting peasants is painful and inflammatory. But the Sierra del Lacandon is the last large remnant of the tropical forest in the Maya region, and is protected by legislation. This is the point of conflict between conservation and social justice.
For my own 2006 video on the region (it will take a while to download):
Maya Frontier (iPod m4v video, 217 mb, 18:30)
AlterNet: Water: The Corporate Threat to Water and the Water Justice Movement's Fight to Protect it
The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw - Bruce Barcott - Book Review - New York Times
Some on the Pacific coast of Chiapas.