Three popular Articles about environment or ecosystem in your home country

Honduras Environment

 This article explains about how human agricultural activities are destroying the land and our environment. An historical record of how the development model pursued in Honduras has affected the municipalities, rural communities, and the natural environment, and how, in turn, people have responded, is presented. The interaction between the agricultural and natural resource practices of various socially differentiated groups are shown to exacerbate and mutually reinforce the pattern of environmental destruction in the region. Also revealed is the potential conflict between ecologically sustainable agricultural practices and the survival strategies of the poor. 

Cabdirect.2013. Honduras Environment. [Internet peer review article][3/14/14]. Available from: http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19936716799.html;jsessionid=84A42D045E39195D7A0EBFA7AC9E310D

Honduras Caribbean Coast

 The coast of Honduras, Central America, represents the southern end of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, although its marine resources are less extensive and studied than nearby Belize and Mexico. The coastal zone contains mainland reef formations, mangroves, wetlands, sea grass beds and extensive fringing reefs around its offshore islands, and has a key role in the economy of the country. Anthropogenic impacts, largely driven by the increasing population and proportion of people living in coastal areas, are numerous and include key factors such as agricultural run-off, over-fishing, urban and industrial pollution (particularly sewage) and infrastructure development. 

Harborne Alastair R.  Afzal Daniel C.  Andrews Mark J.2014. Honduras Caribbean Coast. [Internet Article][3/14/14]. Available from: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X01002399

 

Conservation Geography in Honduras 

This article talks about a book where Mark Bonta recounts his experiences living and working as a Peace Corps volunteer and cultural geographer in the eastern Honduran province of Olancho during the 1990s. He talks about his explorations of the tropical birds and landscapes with intimate accounts of the people he lived with and learned from during this time. Through recounting his experiences in rural Olancho. Instead, he demonstrates that a positive cultural disposition toward birds, "ornithophilia" as he coins it, is rooted in a deep appreciation for nature by the Honduran people, and that ongoing, massive habitat destruction is primarily the consequence of deteriorating economic and sociopolitical conditions. He strongly advocates that conscrvationists working in the Neotropics should pay better attention to, and work more closely with, rural societies in areas they are attempting to conserve, and that such actions will ultimately yield more productive and longer lasting conservation solutions.

Panjabi, Arvind O. 2014. Seven Names for the Bellbird: Conservation Geography in Honduras. [Internet article][3/14/14]. Available from: http://ezp.mhcc.edu:2078/biologyjournals/docview/211279691/9126DF1E10FC4F2BPQ/2?accountid=38161