!!NEW ENCA MAP OF CANADIAN MINING IN CENTRAL AMERICA!!

ENCA is very pleased to share our new interactive map of Central America showing detailed information on current Canadian owned mining operations in the area. Mining is an extremely important issue in Central America, with many mines producing collosal environmental damage, and Canadian companies are currently the most significant force in the region. Please click here to go straight to the map and let us know what you think.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

ENCA is in urgent need of more supporters, in order to fund the work we do with partners in communities across Central America, and to produce and distribute our newsletter advocating internationally for those communities.

Why not make a new years resolution to help make a better 2012 for the people and environment of Central America by starting or increasing your annual subscription to ENCA? Or make a one-off donation using our paypal link.

All donations go directly to our work as we have no paid staff, so every pound you donate will help preserve some of the world's most amazing and fragile environments.

What is ENCA?

Environmental Network for Central America is an organisation of groups and individuals working for environmental protection and social justice in Central America.

Time is running out for Central America's natural resources - under threat from a model of development driven by debt and greed rather than local need.

• Debt is encouraging more intensive production of cash crops (including agro-fuels); the use of pesticides threatens rivers and endangers the health of many rural workers.
• The fight for land has forced the rural poor to migrate to cities where fresh water supplies are woefully inadequate and sewage systems all too often non-existent.
• Weak environment protection laws allow international companies to avoid regulation and import contaminated waste from Canada and the US.
• Large scale projects from the inter-ocean canal to the Pan American Highway threaten the environment and the rights of indigenous peoples.
• Wildlife habitats and many rare species are threatened.
• Logging and mining concessions for short-term profits and to service debt repayments leave local communities and future generations to pay the true environmental costs.

See our Campaigns page for our current campaigns.

What ENCA does

ENCA funds small scale environmental projects such as:

• Sustainable agriculture in the community;
• Localised reforestation projects;
• Organisations working for environmental protection and social justice;
• Small scale renewable energy projects.

ENCA produces a newsletter 3 times a year containing updates on projects and environmental news from Central America.

Social and environmental movements in Central America have always been inspirational for many people within ENCA. We aim to work directly with people in communities who are seeking to arrest the environmental degradation and who are often struggling against the repression and violence of armies and police forces acting under the command of wealthy individuals, trans-national corporations and corrupt politicians. We campaign with them to place environmental rights within national constitutions and to ensure that all natural resources are made to benefit the many and not the few.

Join us if you would like to help communities fight for the rights of the poor and protect their rich natural resources for the benefit of all, for present and future generations, or if you want to be kept informed about countries where social movements play such an important part of the political landscape.

 

If you would like to make a donation to ENCA please use the Paypal link below:

 

Also please get in touch if you would like to know about volunteering opportunities in Central America.

Vist the ENCA Facebook site to contact ENCA supporters