Mark A. Bonta
Cultural geographer and educator Mark A. Bonta covers ecology, democracy, local self-reliance and community-based solutions to global problems.
The Dry Corridor, a naturally arid zone stretching from southern Mexico to Costa Rica, is subject to devastating droughts and intense human poverty. Yet in Chiquimula, Guatemala, a government collaboration with the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization has helped hundreds of families install home rainwater catchment systems that are mitigating these effects. The simple and […]
Read MoreOne of the world’s major killers, on the rise in many regions, is no longer a threat in Paraguay. The World Health Organization, which certified Paraguay malaria-free, primarily credits the country’s conquest of the mosquito-borne disease to its system of free public health care, and the involvement of communities. This is the first time a […]
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The World Wildlife Fund and the National Jaguar Conservation Alliance have announced the heartening results of a study led by Mexican scientist Gerardo Ceballos — there are 20 percent more jaguars in Mexico than in 2010. That’s excellent news for the biggest wildcat in the Americas and for the health of the ecosystems it inhabits. […]
Read MoreAcross Latin America, an estimated 4 million people, 90 percent of them “informal” (unlicensed), make a very dangerous living picking over garbage dumps and city streets to find materials they can recycle for cash. They are exposed to every health and safety risk imaginable — and in Ecuador, where more than half of recyclers are […]
Read MoreAn indigenous rebellion against plastic cups has taken hold in the Tzu’tujil Maya town of San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala. The only town in the country so far to ban plastic hasn’t done so solely to protect the environment from discarded tortilla bags and other refuse. The ban on disposable plastics, enacted in 2016, is […]
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