Laura Palmese is an environmental lawyer from Honduras and a Masters candidate in Human Rights and Democratization at the Universidad Nacional San Martín, in Argentina.
If you enjoy eating spiny lobster or conch, you may have a role in a tragic situation playing out in remote Miskito villages on the Caribbean coast of Honduras. Here, poorly equipped scuba divers and children, working for industrial fishing operations, venture out in small boats and dive for lobster and conch.
If you enjoy eating spiny lobster or conch, you may have a role in a tragic situation playing out in remote Miskito villages on the Caribbean coast of Honduras. Here, poorly equipped scuba divers and children, working for industrial fishing operations, venture out in small boats and dive for lobster and conch.
Associate Director Lori Maddox reflects on work in Mesoamerica to protect reefs and mangroves. She writes: "New Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) rules in Honduras are a step backward, allowing for more development with less oversight."
Associate Director Lori Maddox reflects on work in Mesoamerica to protect reefs and mangroves. She writes: "New Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) rules in Honduras are a step backward, allowing for more development with less oversight."
ELAW Fellows from Honduras and Germany are busy this summer learning about waste management in Lane County and environmental tribunals around the world.
ELAW Fellows from Honduras and Germany are busy this summer learning about waste management in Lane County and environmental tribunals around the world.
ELAW eBulletin
ELAW welcomes Paul Zepeda Castro from Honduras! Paul is an attorney volunteering with the Instituto de Derecho Ambiental de Honduras (IDAMHO). ELAW has worked with IDAMHO for many years, and we are excited to support Paul's efforts protecting the environment in Honduras.
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ELAW welcomes Paul Zepeda Castro from Honduras! Paul is an attorney volunteering with the Instituto de Derecho Ambiental de Honduras (IDAMHO). ELAW has worked with IDAMHO for many years, and we are excited to support Paul's efforts protecting the environment in Honduras.
ELAW Bulletin ELAW Board Member and mining expert Glenn Miller traveled to Panama and Honduras last week to collaborate with ELAW partners at the Environmental Advocacy Center (Centro de Incidencia Ambiental, CIAM) and the Environmental Law Institute (Instituto de Derecho Ambiental de Honduras, IDAMHO) to protect communities and the environment from mining industry abuses.
ELAW Bulletin ELAW Board Member and mining expert Glenn Miller traveled to Panama and Honduras last week to collaborate with ELAW partners at the Environmental Advocacy Center (Centro de Incidencia Ambiental, CIAM) and the Environmental Law Institute (Instituto de Derecho Ambiental de Honduras, IDAMHO) to protect communities and the environment from mining industry abuses.
ELAW eBulletin Emilio D'Cuire, a young scientist who works at the Honduran Environmental Law Institute (IDAMHO) has arrived for an ELAW Fellowship to build skills to prevent mining abuses and protect the Mesoamerican Reef and the coast of Honduras from short-sighted tourism development schemes.
ELAW eBulletin Emilio D'Cuire, a young scientist who works at the Honduran Environmental Law Institute (IDAMHO) has arrived for an ELAW Fellowship to build skills to prevent mining abuses and protect the Mesoamerican Reef and the coast of Honduras from short-sighted tourism development schemes.
ELAW Advocate, Summer, 2010: Around the world, people are watching the impacts of the BP/Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, concerned a similar incident might unfold along their shores. Oil consumption by the developed world is driving multinationals to explore for oil under every rock and reef. In Belize, for example nearly every inch offshore is already charted for oil development. The good news is that ELAW partners in Belize have captured the moment and joined an alliance of more than 40 organizations seeking a moratorium on oil drilling offshore and in protected areas. The Belize Coalition to Save Our Natural Heritage will draw lessons from Costa Rica and other places where public interest lawyers have effectively deterred oil development in fragile marine ecosystems.
ELAW Advocate, Summer, 2010: Around the world, people are watching the impacts of the BP/Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, concerned a similar incident might unfold along their shores. Oil consumption by the developed world is driving multinationals to explore for oil under every rock and reef. In Belize, for example nearly every inch offshore is already charted for oil development. The good news is that ELAW partners in Belize have captured the moment and joined an alliance of more than 40 organizations seeking a moratorium on oil drilling offshore and in protected areas. The Belize Coalition to Save Our Natural Heritage will draw lessons from Costa Rica and other places where public interest lawyers have effectively deterred oil development in fragile marine ecosystems.
