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Monkeys: ruling the southwest

Submitted on 20 July 2007 - 12:05pm

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More than 20 monkeys have been seen in the road PR-3301, in El Combate in Cabo Rojo (southwest) this past weekend, which caused some onlookers to stop traffic to photograph and even feed the animals so they would get closer. But the fact that people feed the primates and get close to them to observe them closely make trapping them more difficult. The Department of Natural and Environmental Resources has warned about the dangers of feeding the animals, or even worst keeping them as pets.

Superheroes for the environment

Submitted on 20 July 2007 - 12:02pm

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The “Teen Titans”: are MS and SM, the new superheroes of the capital’s public housing complex San Martin, who watch that the residents and visitors of the area put their trash in the cans and treat animals well. These characters come from the imagination of 19 kids that participated, during June and July, of a character creation and comics’ workshop sponsored by the Communitarian Project to Promote and Support the Integral Development of Children, which has been offering its services to the San Martin and Las Gladiolas public housing complexes.

Promoting the association of community and environmental groups

Submitted on 20 July 2007 - 12:00pm

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The Communitarian and Environmental Alliance of Solidarity Action wants to unify communitarian and environmental efforts that so far groups have carried out individually and find common ground for the protection of the environment.

Rescuing Salinas lagoon

Submitted on 19 July 2007 - 11:29am

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Some of the areas surrounding the Salinas lagoon in Ponce have been used for years as clandestine garbage dumps, which has deteriorated this sensitive ecosystem that well could become an eco-tourism attraction. However, the efforts of the community organization Friends of the Lagoon promise to eliminate, or at least reduce, the amount of trash in the zone. On Saturday July, 21st, the group will carry out a cleaning of solid wastes in the lagoon and the surroundings, starting at 8:00 am.

Citizens oppose eolic park for environmental reasons

Submitted on 19 July 2007 - 11:22am

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A total of 4,503 people signed a setter, sent to the secretary of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, Javier Vélez Arocho, where the petition him to explain and retire his support to an eolic park project in Guayanilla. The citizens argue that the park will threaten endangered species like the Puerto Rican nightjar, the brown pelican and the lizard of the dry forest. The project plans to install 25 wind mills, each producing 1.8 megawatts that will supply energy to around 20,000 families.

Rivers and creeks forgotten

Submitted on 19 July 2007 - 11:17am

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Although rivers and creeks are abundant in Puerto Rico, many Puerto Ricans are ignorant of the actual situation of these important resources. In ecologist Tamara Heartsill Scalley opinion, in the Island construction alienates people from their surroundings while the land use is maximize in pro of automobiles, and not people, much less rivers or creeks. Also, for Tamara Heartsill Scalley, the transformation of the landscape is not in tune with the water drainage needs (of the rain that falls and accumulates).

Focus on controlling daily asthma symptoms

Submitted on 19 July 2007 - 11:14am

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Only one in five children with asthma can control their symptoms, according to an American study which results are helping to change the way this disease is manager. The change consists in concentrating more in the daily symptoms, not only in severe attacks, so that millions of asthma patients of all ages can breathe better without limiting their daily activities.

Vital patients trust in a physician

Submitted on 19 July 2007 - 11:12am

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In the heart of the controversy of the Physicians Examiner Panel, born after a legislative investigation revealed serious irregularities in the license process, among them the alteration of the board results has shed a new light in the importance of trust from a patient to a doctor. For many Puerto Ricans a friend’s recommendation or another physician’s referral is enough for them to trust their doctors, although they don’t verify their professional credentials.

Contamination increases the flooding risk

Submitted on 18 July 2007 - 11:53am

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According to Ignacio Barsottelli, president of the organization, Yo limpio a Puerto Rico (I Clean Puerto Rico), 80% of the rivers in the Island are contaminated, by either sedimentation or garbage, or by industrial and sanitary discharges. “The problem in the rivers is more of sedimentation than debris. Sedimentation is due to deforestation and excessive development… The problem is not that the river will affect the houses being developed in a specific place, but that the sediment generated will affect the people that live 4 km downstream”, said Barsottelli. Sedimentation causes a loss in the rivers capacity to retain water in its riverbed, which facilitates flooding, he explained.

Another coqui in danger

Submitted on 18 July 2007 - 11:50am

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Under the huge granite rocks in the southwestern mountains of Puerto Rico, the song of the tiny amphibian, the Coquí Guajón, resounded through the cave’s walls. No one saw were the possessed song of the “demon of Puerto Rico” came from. No one bothered to try to find out. But the inhabitants of the area know now that the sound comes from a tiny amphibian, only two inches long. They are not afraid anymore. Today, careless neighbors and developers litter and contaminate the Coqui’s sanctuary. These stone cathedrals are the only place where the Coquí Guajón lives, sings and reproduces, and today, approximately 268 acres of land have been designated for protection in the municipalities of San Lorenzo, Yabucoa, Maunabo and others.

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