Several months ago we told you that the Argentinean government was helping the rural zones with their power problems by installing solar energy. That time we are talking about solar energy kitchens for schools in Jujuy. Currently the government is installing solar cells in the province of Catamarca to empower schools, homes and public dependences.
Lets keep visiting the biggest green spaces of the world, so we can remember what we are fighting for.
This time we will visit the second largest natural reserve of the American continent, a jungle known as Selva Misionera or Paranaense (also called Mata Atlántica in Brazil, and Atlantic Forest in english). This jungle has an enormous biological diversity, with more than 2000 floral species, 150 vegetal species per hectare, 400 bird species and a great variety of mammals, reptiles and insects.
Only one hundred years ago, the jungle enlarged over a million square kilometers covering different lands of the Paraguayan , Brazilian and Argentinean territory. Read the rest of this entry »
There are 1000 species of birds in Argentina and 120 of them are endangered according to Aves Argentinas, a non profit organization.
In Argentina one of the main factors that puts wild birds in danger is unrestricted hunting. Most Provincial Governments don’t put a limit on this. When a limit is set, there is no control over its observance.
One of the most beautiful and more threatened species is the cauquenes or kaikenes (Ruddy-headed Goose or Magellan Goose), similar in aspect to the goose.
Glaciers are melting. It’s a fact. In terms of global warming, the guilt rests with us. We already saw how many of Switzerland’s glaciers are disappearing. Unfortunately, they are not alone.
Pedro Skvarca, glaciologist from Argentina in Antarctica, witnessed the progressive retreating of glaciers from the White Continent in the last ten years. Read the rest of this entry »
In Argentina, there are a lot of rural schools without electricity. Now, the provincial minister of education, from Corrientes, has invested 2 million dollars in a program to bring solar power to those schools. This program is part of a national attempt to eradicate the absence of electricity in the remote areas of Argentina.
During the next months, engineers will install the solar cells provided by a Spanish firm in each school. In time, the school’s directors will have to take responsibility for the solar system.
Until today, stolen or crashed vehicles with judicial causes remained forever at fiscal deposits or police stations, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. There you could see, literally, mountains of cars and junk. As you can imagine these places became focal points of infection and contamination.
To avoid the growing car cemeteries, the government of Buenos Aires has decided to eradicate these prejudicial elements to the environment. How? They plan on compacting the cars and waste in a programmed way. Newspaper Perfil, informed readers that at the beginning 60.000 vehicles will be stripped of batteries, fluids and other components that threaten the environment.
The government plans to do a technical verification, a decontamination and compact whats leftover. The process will use software exclusively created by the University of La Plata to define the cars condition. If the car is in good condition, it will be fixed and later used by a government facility; however, if the car is inevitably broken, then it will be stripped, using a protocol elaborated by University of La Plata. This program explains what needs to be extracted and where it will be stored.
This kind of story brings joy to my heart, especially after my trip to Patagonia. It’s comforting to know some people in Argentina are working towards a better world.
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I’m traveling trough Patagonia, Argentina, and exploring how eco-friendly the Patagonians are.
I drove through route 3. It runs across Argentina from north to south, next to the Atlantic coast. Here you can see a beautiful landscape, steppe to one side and deep blue ocean to the other.
Patagonia: it’s a land of dinosaurs, oil and strong winds. The latter is responsible for a horrifying realization–how dirty it is! The last time I visited Patagonia was six years ago, and I didn’t see the mass amount of plastic bags everywhere.
If you follow me, I’ll take you on an eco-trip around the world, visiting the most beautiful green places of our living planet Earth. The idea is to know the forests and trees that we want to save when we fight for an eco-friendly world to live on.
The first eco-place, will be the National Park Los Alerces in Argentina. You can find it at Chubut province, in the Argentinian Patagonia. It has some of the most beautiful biodiversity in the world, with a wide and rare vegetable variety.
Six lakes are nestled in there. The Lake Futalaufquen, flows to Lake Verde and Menéndez by the Arrayanes river, and Lake Verde flows to Lake Rivadavia by the deep green Rivadavia river. Read the rest of this entry »
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