By: Juan Rafael Cortez Dean A project carried out on Lake Alajuela (Madden Lake) by the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) was not only to fight poverty, but to prevent illegal logging and deforestation in the Panama Canal basin. JICA said that Panama “graduated” in the Alhajuela Project that now serves as a model for [...]
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ANAM and ACP work together in Month of Natural Resources
Activities are under way to promote Consolidation of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor of Panama (CBMAP) during the celebration of the Month of Natural Resources. The General Administration of the National Environmental Authority (ANAM), directed by Lucia Chandeck, handed an environmental investment check to 19 community groups in the Provinces of Cocle, Herrera, Los Santos and [...]
Global Fund meets in Panama on environmental issues
Lucia Chandeck, Minister of the Environment and general manager of the ANAM, represented Panama with a delegation of environmentalists to gather information for environmental strategies and projects with Central American countries, together with the Venezuelan and Mexican delegation to the Global Fund on May 2 and 4. The workshop was held to ensure coordination among [...]
Environmentalists laud Panama’s long-line ban
The following e-mailed press release has been received by The Bulletin and is presented as follows in its complete form. The decree in question has been protested in recent days by the commercial fishing industry – Editor “Editors: Below and attached is a press release on the recent decree by Panama’s president restricting commercial longlining [...]
CMAR Commission to develop strategic plan
In order to develop strategic planning for the establishment of the National Eastern Tropical Pacific Marine Corridor, the National Environmental Authority (ANAM), the Alliance for Conservation and Development (ACD) and the Panama International Maritime University (UMIP) carried out the II Meeting, attended by officials and representatives of the private enterprise sector, NGOs and other groups [...]
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