Word: otero
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...Cloudcroft, Otero County, the U.S. Forest Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service came up with a broad local conservation plan--one of the first in the nation--designed to safeguard the butterfly on both public and private land. But with logging virtually gone, Cloudcroft relies on tourism, which draws hundreds of thousands of visitors a year to hike, camp, fish and hunt. Restrictions on human activity in the checkerspot's habitat would bode ill for a local economy already suffering in the recession. "Anybody who is young and trying to make a living in Cloudcroft works in the tourist...
Meanwhile, the checkerspot slumbers beneath the snowy alpine meadows of Otero County. Cloudcroft cautiously prepares for what it hopes will be the usual summer tourist invasion. And environmentalists intensify their campaign to add what would be the 21st butterfly to the list of protected species in the U.S. "Diverse native insects should be cause for celebration," says Rosmarino. "I would like to see Cloudcroft honor and promote its endemic checkerspot, perhaps with a butterfly festival." Cloudcroft is less enthusiastic. "Their agenda," warns Michael Nivison, the village administrator, "is to get everybody out of the forest...
...head of Citigroup's microfinance unit. Microfinanciers around the world are racing to offer the first real micromortgages. "That we are now talking about creating financial systems that include the majority of people in developing countries is a real departure from what has existed for centuries," says Marķa Otero, CEO of microlender ACCION International...
...fact that no modernization, no technology and no industry has ever arrived in Nicaragua is now a great advantage for the country," says Cirilo Otero, head of the Center for Research on Environmental Policy. With rich volcanic soils, some 443,000 hectares of fallow farm land waiting to be put back to work, and a long agricultural tradition of growing basic food products, Nicaragua "has the best conditions in Central America" to become a regional breadbasket, Otero says...
...Otero, however, stresses that Nicaragua must first invest massive amounts of money into agricultural credits, transport infrastructure and education, as well as resolve the land disputes left over from the Sandinista confiscations in the 1980s. More basically, he says, Nicaragua needs a plan - something he claims the Ortega government has not articulated, despite its political pomp. Without one, the agricultural expert says, Ortega is just "promising others something he hasn't been able to do at home...