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.
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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.
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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.
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Large scale projects from the inter-ocean canal to the Pan American
Highway threaten the environment and the rights of indigenous
peoples.
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Wildlife habitats and many rare species are threatened.
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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.
ENCA funds small scale environmental projects such as:
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Sustainable agriculture in the community;
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Localised reforestation projects;
- Organisations
working for environmental protection and social justice;
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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.
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 |
