URGENT!!!

The Chamela-Cuixmala Biosphere Reserve is one of the most important protected areas and well studied tropical dry forests!!!

Also several turtle nesting beaches are protected under the Inter-American Convention for the Protection and Conservation of Sea Turtles.

On November, 2006, the Mexican government’s Environmental and Natural Resources Secretariat ( SEMARNAT) through the General Directorate of Environmental Impact and Risk (DGIRA) authorized two tourist developments: “IEL La Huerta” (registration number 14JA2006T0018) and “Tambora” (registration number 14JA20-06T0011). Both located on lands adjacent to the Chamela-Cuixmala Biosphere Reserve along the coast in the state of Jalisco

Both project reports fail to identify the type and extent of all potential environmental and social impacts and therefore, they do not establish real mechanisms for the mitigations of any environmental impacts.

Both projects, as proposed and approved, will have serious negative impacts on the integrity and ecological functioning of the Chamela-Cuixmala Biosphere Reserve as well as other nearby protected areas and the ecosystem of the region as a whole. These developments also threaten the stability and equitable social development of the human populations in the region.

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Talk to the plant: Prince Charles's organic revolution

TETBURY, England: When Prince Charles gazes from the upstairs windows at Highgrove, his home near this tiny town in the English countryside, he can see a tree planted by the Dalai Lama. It grows near a field of rare British wildflowers, which fade into a row of box hedges trimmed to frame four small busts of the prince's head. Tigga, his late, beloved Jack Russell terrier, is immortalized in a relief sculpture on a nearby garden wall, behind which a longtime gardener prepares the ground for the prince's favorite vegetables, potatoes and Brussels sprouts.

At home, the royal perspective has been criticized as conservative, stodgy and elitist. But to some of the generals of the American food revolution, the prince qualifies as downright progressive.

FULL ARTICLE: http://ecologistvoice.blogspot.com/2007/05/talk-to-plant-prince-charless-organic.html