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Resources for Eco Travel
compiled by Ron Mader
February 1996
Travel Info Exchange BBS & Web
The Travel Info Exchange BBS is available with FirstClass software in Concord, Massachusetts at 508-287-0660. The new web page is accessible via http://www.infoexchange.com/biz/travelinfo
Ecotourism Proposal
The Andean Center for Latin American Studies (ACLAS) has published a very interesting booklet on ecotourism titled "La Ecologia en el turismo...Una Propuesta Ecoturistica" (Ecology in Turism...An Ecoturistic Proposal). For information, contact Fernando Mino-Garces, ACLAS, P.O. Box 17-11-6203, Quito, Ecuador; Phone/Fax: (593 2) 258-441; Email: FMINO@aclas.ecx.ec
Media Resource
GW Associates Public Interest media offer the Living media tape, designed for organizations which send delegations to the Third World and will educate North Americans. The tape is designed to give these travelers the skills and confidence to use the media to share that experience. More than 2,000 tapes have been sold and the materials can be customized. A progressive media bargain! Tapes are $9.999 plus $1.50 postage and handling. Make checks payable to GW Associates and mail them to 702 South Beech, Syracuse, New York 13210; Phone: 315-476-3396; Email: pwirth@erc.cat.syr.edu
Internet's Tropical Market
Good Green Fun is exactly that. Browse the tropical market on the Internet (http://www.gate.net/good-green-fun) or order the catalog! Selections include tropical natural history books, tropical treats, maps, exceptional software and exotic tropical plants. This is one of my favorite ventures! Check it out! Email: ggf@gate.net; Phone: 800-684-882 or write to PO Box 27, Miami, FL 33257-0027.
Travel Gear
Walkabout Travel Gear has a new email (walkgear@xmission.com) and a web site that is being "tweaked." Check it out for your travel needs. Web: http://www.xmission.com/~walkgear/walk.htm
Maps: Honduras
Canada's World of Maps (http://www.magi.com/~maps/) has a new map of Honduras published by ITMB of Vancouver "hot off the printing press." It is scale 1:750,000 full colour with a detailed index printed on the reverse of all the communities that appear on the map. "Elevations are clearly shown with hypsometric tints of colour." There is an index city map of Tegucigalpa and Comayaguela as well as plan of Copan. All of the Wildlife Refuges, Biological Reserves, Marine Parks, National Parks are clearly shown.
The map is US$ 7.95 and a few dollars extra for postage/handling. For info, contact Brad Green, World of Maps, 118 Holland Ave. Ottawa,ON, Canada, K1Y 0X6 ; Phone: (613) 724-6776 Fax (613) 724-7776; Email: maps@magi.com
Cordillera Real of Bolivia
Liam P. O'Brien has every reason to be proud. He's just published a wonderful map of the Cordillera Real of Bolivia. This is a full color, shaded relief topographic map that measures 23" by 44". The map costs $7.50 with $4 shipping charge to the U.S. Ask about discounts for larger shipments and overseas shipments. Make checks out to Liam O'Brien and send them in care of the American Embassy, Unit 3919, APO AA 34032. Phone: (591-2-391492)
Travel Advisories
"Sound advice for safe travel" is the motto of the Latin American Travel Advisor, a 16-page monthly newsletter tracking safety issues, economic hardship and an array of tourism issues. A one-year subscription is $39. Send a check or inquiry to PO Box 17-17-908, Quito, Ecuador; lata@pi.pro.ec
Employment
International Career Employment Opportunities is published bi-weekly. Subscriptions are $29 for two months, $229 for one year (hope you get a job as quickly as possible!). There are no fees to employers for listing job openings. Contact the magazine at Rt. 2, Box 305, Stanardsville, VA 22973, Phone: 804-985-6444; Email: 76355.400@compuserve.com.
Environment
The United Nation's Environment Programme (UNEP) has published the May-September issue of Environmental Training. This is an incredible resource, documenting the activities of the government, non-governmental organization and university programs in Latin America. A special feature documents linkage of sciences and environmental education in Venezuela.
The issue also reviews books, including Desarrollo Sostenible: Retos y Prioridades, edited by Eugenia Olguin, and various newsletters, such as Caribbean Conservation News (U.S.), UNR/Ambiental (Argentina), Agrisost (Cuba) and Sihnal (Mexico).
For info, contact Enrique Leff, UNEP, Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, Boulevard de los Virreyes No. 155, Col. Lomas de Virreyes, 11000 Mexico, DF, Mexico. Email: uneprolac@igc.org or 75030.21@compuserve.com
Community Forestry
Wisconsin's Land Tenure Center has released "Case Studies of Community-Based Forestry Enterprises in the Americas." Essays address Peru's Yanesha Forestry Cooperative, Bolivia's proposal for forest management in multi-ethnic territory of Beni and a forestry project of the indigenous Chiquitano communities, and Mexico's forestry producers of Quintana Roo, forestry communities in Oaxaca and the forest enterprise of Nuevo San Juan Parangaricutiro, Michoacan.
This publication costs $10. Send a check to LTC Publications, 1357 University Ave., Madison WI. 53715
Mangroves
Mangrove Resource Center has established a new office in Seattle, Washington. Address: 4649 Sunnyside Ave. North #321, Seattle, WA 98103; Phone: 206-545-1137; Email mangrove@igc.apc.org.
The Winter issue of their newsletter features a report on an ecological reserve in Ecuador, "most of which is 'exempt' from more stringent ecological prohibitions." Copies of the report summaries and commentaries are available from MAP's Kate Cissna - email: kacissna@aol.com
Environmental Law
The Mesoamerican Environmenal Law Program has released its August 1995-January 1996 newsletter. The issue has news from Mexico and Central American countries, a publications list and updates on the Maya Forest Conservation Assessment, Mayafor Studies, Trinational Gulf of Honduras and Rio San Juan Boundary Water Initiative. Email: ankersen@law.ufl.edu
Documentation
Austin's Documentation Exchange provides numerous publications and resources relating to Latin America, including the Third World Resource Directory and the Central America and Mexico Newspaks. Subscriptions are $42 per year for either Newspak. Request info and a catalog from the Documentation Exchange, PO Box 2327, Austin, TX 78768; Phone: 512-476-9841.
Mexico & The Border
El Norte: Internet Site
Internet Users - El Norte regularly features environmental news; now each day's section of Ecologia is found online. The coverage here is amazing and should be a model for U.S. journalism, particularly for the Texas capitol's daily newspaper!!! Web address - http://www.infosel.com.mx/elnorte/
Mining in Mexico
The Border Ecology Project (PO Drawer CP, Bisbee, AZ 85603) has released an in-depth report "Environmental/Social Impacts of Multinational Mining Investment in Sonora, Mexico" Email: bep@igc.apc.org
Border GIS and Health Issues
Deborah Salazar of the University of Texas' Bureau of Economic Geology (University Station, Box X, Austin, TX 78713-7508) has written on using the Internet and Geographic Information System (GIS) Technology to Bridge the U.S.-Mexico Information Frontier. This is a well-researched analysis of communications issues along and across the border, with a special focus on health care. Email: salazard@begv.beg.utexas.edu
Waste Management
The National Law Center and the Legal Center for Inter-American Trade and Commerce hosted the plenary session for the Committee for Responsible Hazardous Waste Management in North America. Details? Email: natlaw@ccit.arizona.edu
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