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Indigenous boy, resident of Mexico's Lacandona jungle./ Photo credit: Mauricio Ramos.

Indigenous boy, resident of Mexico's Lacandona jungle. Photo credit: Mauricio Ramos.

Report

By Humberto Márquez

Protected Areas - On Paper Only

Many of the 2,267 zones under protective legislation in Latin America and the Caribbean exist only on the paper that created them, says the United Nations Environment Program, stressing that the provisions for management and protection must be put into practice.

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Accents

By Eddie Koch

Conservationism Has Not Reached the Seas

Since 1962, the year of the first World Parks Congress, the number of protected areas has jumped from two million square km to over 18 million today. But barely 0.5 percent of the earth's seas and oceans are included in that category.

Accents

By Cristina Hernández-Espinoza

The Hubble's Days Are Numbered

If no new maintenance missions are sent, the useful life of the magnificent telescope-satellite will come to an end in just three years. Much depends on a renewal of space exploration efforts by the United States.

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Connect Yourself: The Telescope

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En la Antártida.

World Ozone Day

The scientific community estimates that the ozone layer, which filters the ultraviolet rays of the Sun, could recover its density by the middle of this century. Recent studies show an improvement, a closing of the so-called ozone hole, but only in the upper stratosphere. Efforts to limit production and use of ozone depleting gases must continue, and that is the point of World Ozone Day, observed every Sep. 16.

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