FARMERS “GRAZE” INDIO-MAÍZ
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Based on the environmental monitoring that Batallón Cívico Indio-Maíz does we can confirm that there is a rise in the presence of big farmers in the core zone of the protected area. In all the reported cases these people…
CHURCHES INVADE INDIO-MAÍZ BIOLOGICAL RESERVE
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Faith moves mountains. It is a popular expression frequently used in Nicaragua, however if we had to adapt this phrase to the current situation of Indio Maiz, we would have to say faith does not move but is rather pushing nature away…
NETWORK OF LAND THIEVES, DOING AS THEY PLEASE
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In the town of El Castillo in the face of the public institutions there is a group of land dealers that work inside Indio Maiz Biological Reserve, so then they can sell the land to settlers or farmers from some towns…
MINING MOVES FORWARD IN SOUTHEAST OF NICARAGUA
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On September 2019 environmental organization, Fundación del Río, documented and reported publicly the invasion of small-scale mining in Indio-Maíz Biological Reserve. According to this organization…
INDIO-MAÍZ BIOLOGICAL RESERVE HAS BEEN FORGOTTEN
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September 13th 2018 La Prensa Even though the fire that lasted 10 days in Indio-Maíz Biological Reserve caught the attention of national and international media, the main issue that threatens the protected area is the invasion of illegal settlers…
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April 6th 2018 BBC The fire is “out of control”. That is practically the only thing that the Nicaraguan government and the environmental groups agree on when reporting the fire that is destroying the Indio-Maíz reserve …
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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) could remove Indio-Maíz from the World Network of Biosphere Reserves list, explains Nicaraguan environmentalist, Jaime Incer Barquero…
ENVIRONMENTALISTS SUSPECT OF CRIMINAL HAND IN FIRE IN INDIO-MAÍZ RESERVE
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The Indio-Maíz Biological Reserve is burning, the voracious fire had affected some two thousand hectares, according to calculations made by the Fundación del Río Organization through the Regional Visualization and Monitoring System of Mesoamerica…
FIRE COULD REACH 10 THOUSAND HECTARES OF FOREST
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What local authorities do is only warn, warn the Rama people that live in the center of the reserve that if necessary they would have to be evacuated, because according to them, the National System for Prevention, Mitigation and Attention of Disasters (Sinapred) told them that they had no means of putting out the fire…
500 MILITARY TRY TO EXTINGUISH THE FIRE IN THE RESERVE
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500 military personnel along with 120 community members are in the Indio-Maíz Biological Reserve to quell the fire that is five days old today. Colonel Manuel Guevara, spokesman for the institution, reported that military personnel are being transported by land, sea and air…
BRIGADE OF 40 FIREFIGHTERS FROM COSTA RICA WILL GO TO NICARAGUA TO HELP CONTROL THE FOREST FIRE
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The fire has destroyed more than 3,000 hectares of the Reserve, 40 Costa Rican forest firefighters will go to Nicaragua this Monday to help control the fire in the Indio-Maíz Biological Reserve, the second most important area in that country and located near the San Juan River…
FIREFIGHTING HELICOPTER ARRIVES IN NICARAGUA TO EXTINGUISH THE FIRE
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As a solidarity support between the sister peoples, a Mexican fire extinguisher helicopter arrived in Nicaragua to help put out the fire in the Indio Maíz Reserve. At the reception of the MI17 helicopter, the Ambassador of Mexico in Nicaragua, Omar Hurtado, and the head of the Army Air Force were present…
NICARAGUA: FIRE DEVASTATES THE FOREST IN THE RESERVE
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More than 5000 hectares destroyed in the second most important biological reserve in Nicaragua. The Nicaraguan government declared a yellow alert four days after the fire started, when the fire had already consumed 3,000 hectares…
A FIRE CALCINATES THOUSANDS OF HECTARES
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The Indio-Maíz reserve has been burning for seven days. The Daniel Ortega government minimized the incident in the first days, but the destruction is palpable: 5,400 hectares charred, according to organizations that work in the area, and a rich flora and fauna in danger…
THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE FIRE IN INDIO-MAÍZ: THE ANALYSIS OF JAIME INCER BARQUERO
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The scientist and environmentalist Jaime Incer Barquero analyzes the consequences of the fire that has affected the Indio Maíz reserve since last week…
A FIRE DESTROYS MORE THAN 5000 HECTARES OF FOREST IN SOUTHERN NICARAGUA
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One of the main rainforest reserves in Central America burns uncontrollably in southern Nicaragua, devastating more than five thousand hectares of the Indio Maíz forest core, located in the Caribbean of this country, habitat of more than 450 species of birds and of a forest wealth of…
INDIO-MAÍZ RESERVE DOES NOT HAVE PROTECTION, INDIGENOUS PEOPLE INSIST
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In the 3,180 square kilometers that make up the reserve, there are only 13 forest rangers, all volunteers from the same indigenous communities, who have organized due to the lack of surveillance by state institutions. The fire that destroyed 5,600 hectares…
CURRENT SITUATION OF THE COUNTRY MUST BE PART OF THE NATIONAL DIALOGUE
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An environmental agenda must be included in the national dialogue that the Government will hold with different sectors of the Society, and of which the Catholic Church agreed to be the mediator. In this, issues such as the effective safeguarding of protected areas and the repeal of the Canalera Law should be prioritized, he explained…
THE ENVIRONMENT IS ALSO SUFFERING FROM THE COUNTRY’S SOCIO-POLITICAL CRISIS
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The socio-political crisis in which Nicaragua has been plunged since the April protests, which have been repressed by the Government, leaving more than three hundred murdered, also implies a strong blow to the environment. This is how the climate change expert from the Humboldt Center, Alejandro Alemán, considers it…
REPORT MORE DESTRUCTION IN INDIO-MAÍZ
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Fundación del Río revealed that at least 134 blocks of forests in the Indio-Maíz Biological Reserve, the second most important in the country, have been destroyed by settlers. The complaint was made through his communication project: Let’s save the Indio-Maíz reserve, official Facebook account. Amaru Ruiz, president of the Foundation…
INDIO-MAÍZ LOSES 134 ACRES OF FOREST
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Fundación del Río denounced that the settlers have destroyed at least 134 acres of forest in the Indio-Maíz Biological Reserve, the second most important in Nicaragua. Amaru Ruiz, president of the foundation, explained that the destruction occurred in late April and early May, after the great forest fire…
FUNDACIÓN DEL RÍO REQUESTS AN AUDIENCE TO ANALYZE THE CURRENT SITUATION WITHIN INDIO-MAÍZ
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The environmental organization Fundación del Río sent correspondence to the departmental representatives of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, the Nicaraguan Army and the Attorney General’s Office to request an audience to exchange information and identify actions that contribute to the conservation of the Indio-Maíz Reserve.
REMARKS BY PRESIDENT DANIEL ORTEGA ON THE SITUATION OF BOSAWAS AND INDIO-MAÍZ RESERVE
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And then we have situations that I would say are exceptional, like the one we are currently experiencing in the Caribbean Zone, in the Autonomous Regions of the North Atlantic; a phenomenon has occurred there…
THE CONFLICTS OVER LAND CONTINUES IN INDIO-MAÍZ
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On August 5th David Martinez was transferred to the nearest hospital, located in the community Boca de Sabalos in El Castillo, because he was shot in the face in his home at Cristo Rey, a community settled illegally in the core area of Indio Maiz Biological Reserve…
FROM INDIO-MAÍZ TO BOSAWAS, THE INVASION CONTINUES…
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The town of El Castillo is a part of Indio-Maíz Biological Reserve, in the southeast of Nicaragua. To more than 400 km in distance, in the North Caribbean Autonomous Region, in the town of Siuna there is the Bosawas Biosphere reserve…
THE ‘ACOTADOS’ KEEP HAPPENING DAILY IN INDIO-MAÍZ
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Acotado is a term used in the town El Castillo that means the steps in the “chop-slash-burn” process. Through this practice the forest disappears to create new areas for agriculture and pasture. In Indio-Maíz Reserve the acotados are increasing due to the massive arrival of people.
SOS FOR INDIO-MAÍZ BIOLOGICAL RESERVE
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As part of the launching of the campaign “Let’s save Indio Maiz Biological Reserve: the lung of Central America” from the 1st to the 6th of June there is going to be a press conference with a delegation of 10 people who are currently in the capital to raise awareness…
