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...Long strips of coastline south of Bangkok now look like powdery gray moonscapes. Shrimp farms can raise the salinity of the surrounding soil and water, poisoning the land for agriculture. Some flush their effluent into the sea, killing mangrove trees. Shrimp farming is also practiced in Brazil, India and Ecuador, and in the U.S. in Florida, South Carolina and Texas...
...recognizing indigenous peoples' claims to ancestral land sometimes can help preserve wilderness. In the republic of Yakutia in Russian Siberia, some 270,000 sq. mi. of arctic tundra are now off limits to all extractive industries except for the traditional hunting and fishing done by the Yakut people. In Ecuador the Awa people, after winning recognition as a communal federation, were given legal title in 1985 to almost 300,000 acres of Choco forest. Ten years later, despite pressure from logging companies, the Awa signed an agreement with the WWF designating 42,000 acres as a "life reserve" that will...
...really helped people on the road, who can’t access telnet,” said Let’s Go Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia book editor Megan M. Brumagim ’04, who said her researcher-writers prefer Webmail over other web-based email services. “They don’t have to worry about signing up to another Hotmail account to communicate with...
...other companies. "I quickly realized I was not going to get my dream job, and would be lucky to get a job at all," she says. The New Orleans native left last week for a six-month internship in South America to help design oil facilities for TECNA-Ecuador...
Rosenberg, who is an economics concentrator, will travel to Ecuador next year to study the political and economic impact displaced Colombians have had on small business owners and farmers there...