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#colombia

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#Colombia: French multinational Veolia is pumping toxic pollutants from a landfill into protected wetlands, potentially endangering local communities, according to a new Global Witness investigation.

Tests of sediment samples, taken in September 2024, revealed high concentrations of heavy metals – including mercury 25 times over safe limits. A local paediatrician denounced a surge in birth defects, including babies being born with no brain and a rare skin condition known as Job, which can cause serious skin infections and scarring. business-humanrights.org/en/la #Environment

Business & Human Rights Resource CentreColombia: French multinational Veolia allegedly risking health impacts by pumping toxins from a large landfill into protected wetlands; incl. company's comments - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
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Donald Hobern

Short video panning over the #landscape in #Sumapaz #NationalPark, #Colombia. This is around 3,700 m above sea level in one of the largest remaining areas of the #Páramo ecosystem. The swamp in the middle of the scanned area contained lesser #yellowlegs, Andean #teal and American #coot. The surrounding areas held Boyaca #antpitta, Apolinar's #wren, green-throated #helmetcrest, many-striped #canastero and Brazilian #GuineaPigs.

#birds#nature
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Donald Hobern

I spent the weekend visiting #NationalParks outside #Bogotá, #Colombia, mainly for birds. There was plenty of rain, and the light wasn't great, but it was wonderful to explore new ecosystems (Paramó and Bosque Alto-Andiño) and see some distinctive species.

Andean #Condor (one of two soaring and then on a cliff in #Chingaza NP)

Female Torrent #Duck (Bosque Guajira Reserva Natural)

Black-billed Mountain-#Toucan (Bosque Guajira)

Boyaca #Antpitta (Sumapaz NP)

Large black vulture with big white panels on the upperside of the wings, soaring in a grey sky with its primary feathers spread.
Orange duck with dark oily-coloured upperparts, a stiff tail and a bright red bill standing on a wet boulder in the middle of a rushing stream.
Toucan sitting on branch - the bill is all black, the underside is bluish with a white throat, and the upperside and tail are dark.
Small, almost tailless cinnamon-coloured bird perched on the withered black leaves of one of the local Espeletia sunflower plants. It's head is raised to sing.
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Mexico: Hogrefe Buys Hugo Setzer’s Manual Moderno and Vesalius

Longtime Mexican Publisher and former IPA president Hugo Setzer continues as MD at Manuel Moderno.
The post Mexico: Hogrefe Buys Hugo Setzer’s Manual Moderno and Vesalius appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
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#Colombia #HugoSetzer #InternationalPublishersAssociation #MergersandAcquisitions #Mexico
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Publishing Perspectives · Mexico: Hogrefe Buys Hugo Setzer's Manual Moderno and VesaliusLongtime Mexican Publisher and former IPA president Hugo Setzer continues as MD at Manuel Moderno.
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Rita, antifascist 🏴🦯🦯🦯

Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe “suffered an ignominious fall from grace after leaving office amidst a torrent of accusations of collusion with right-wing death squads, civilian massacres, and involvement in the country’s infamous ‘false positives’ cases— in which thousands of innocent people were killed to inflate casualty statistics during Colombia’s civil war…

Uribe is the first former president in the country’s history to face criminal charges, and if convicted could face up to 12 years in prison…

Colombia’s civil war left deep scars upon society, perhaps nowhere more evident than in its domestic justice system, where prosecutors regularly protected business interests and elite families from investigation.

That corruption runs deep and is far from corrected today. But the transparent process against Uribe, who once ruled the country, in his own words, with “an iron fist”, is a crucial step in that direction.”

#Colombia

piratewireservices.com/p/witne

Pirate Wire Services · Witness Testimony in Uribe trial re-implicates the ex president in old crimesBy Joshua Collins
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