Honduras Guide

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This forum reviews our coverage of Honduras
http://www.planeta.com/honduras.html
viewtopic.php?t=107

Honduras Links
http://www.planeta.com/ecotravel/center ... uras1.html

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New online Planeta.com

Conservation Geography in Honduras by Mark Bonta
Keywords: Birding, Olancho, Honduras, Central America, Community Tourism, Birding, Conservation, Landscape, NGOs

"HONDURAS -- Conservation solutions are always contextual what works in
Olancho may not work in other regions. Solutions for La Venta may have
little luck in El Boqueron. Experimentation is of the essence conservation
should be strategic and malleable more often than rigid and plan-driven.
Following are themes and possibilities for conservation in Olancho that are
both geographical and practical and may serve to inspire work in other
regions."

Mark Bonta is an assistant professor at Delta State University. This article
is excerpted from Mark's book Seven Names for the Bellbird: Conservation
Geography in Honduras <http://tinyurl.com/yttfk> published in 2003 by Texas A&M Press. For permission to reprint the article, contact the author.

The feature is published online Planeta
>> http://www.planeta.com/planeta/04/0403olancho.html

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The new edition of Honduras Handbook is now featured online
>> http://www.planeta.com/honduras.html

To purchase the book directly from Amazon
>> http://tinyurl.com/6ys8t

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Including locals in conservation starts with listening. A Conversation with Mark Bonta is now online
>> http://www.planeta.com/ecotravel/weaving/markbonta.html

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FYI - Honduras This Week published excerpts from the "Listening to Locals" conversation in the July 24th issue

ABOUT HONDURAS THIS WEEK

Honduras This Week is a privately owned, independent Honduran newspaper without government connections (national or foreign) and soley responsible to its readers.

Honduras This Week is an English language weekly newspaper published 51 Saturdays a year. In addition to a concise review of the top news events making headlines in Honduras each week, HTW also features in-depth reports on subjects of interest to the international community. With a special emphasis on tourism, culture and the environment, HTW is also an excellent source of information on economic, development, human rights, diplomatic and judicial affairs.

LINKS

Honduras This Week
>> http://www.marrder.com/htw

National News
>> http://www.marrder.com/htw/national.htm

Culture
>> http://www.marrder.com/htw/cultural.htm

Environment
>> http://www.marrder.com/htw/special/environment

Travel
>> http://www.marrder.com/htw/travel.htm

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Direct link to Warren Post's website on Santa Rosa de Copan
>> http://srcopan.vze.com

REQUEST -- If anyone has a link to the 1998 Planeta feature, please change the URL from
>> http://www.planeta.com/planeta/98/0898hondurosa.html
to
>> http://srcopan.vze.com

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TIP -- For those keeping track of Honduras in the news, check out

Google News
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=Honduras

Google News (EspaÒol)
http://news.google.com/news?hl=es&q=Honduras

Yahoo News Photos
http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/new ... ews_photos

REFERENCE

Planeta Headlines
http://www.planeta.com/headlines.html

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Diving the Bay Islands - Gadling
http://www.Gadling.com/entry/1234000000025369/

Features news from Scuba Diving magazine
http://www.scubadiving.com/travel/atlan ... ay_islands

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UPDATE!

The Planeta.com feature "Visit to Celaque National Park" by
Alexis Aguilar has been updated. The first version was published online in 1996.

EXCERPTS:

Celaque National Park contains the largest, highest and best preserved cloud forest in Honduras.

The wet season is from May to October followed by a marked dry season. The 34 villages located within the park's boundaries total some 2800 inhabitants mostly of Lenca origin, a Mesoamerican indigenous group that has inhabited the region for thousands of years (Celaque means "box of water" in the Lenca language).

I returned to Celaque in July 2004 and noticed that many things had changed little since my last visit. Specifically, there has been little development of tourist infrastructure and park staff remains minimal. The German-funded Proyecto Celaque has ended and very little institutional presence and funding remains for the park.

Celaque remains a beautiful and peaceful place where to commune with nature and with people who amidst their poverty are generous, upbeat, and curious about their world and the world outside. They hold a special reverence for "The Mountain" and are the park's main protectors.

Complete article
http://www.planeta.com/planeta/96/0596celaque.html

Author website
http://www.ixchel.org


REFERENCE

Honduras
http://www.planeta.com/honduras.html

Parks Index
http://www.planeta.com/ecotravel/links/parks.html

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HEADLINES

Mass tourism latest menace for Honduran Garifuna - Catherine Bremer/Reuters
Thu Jun 9, 8:34 AM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u ... ifuna_dc_1

The powder sand, turquoise sea and sun of this unspoiled corner of northwest Honduras have investors salivating. Planned tourist complexes could spell the end of the centuries-old way of life of the black minority here known as Garifuna. Sanchez fears a $100 million luxury hotel complex and golf course to be built next to his tiny wooden-shack village will destroy the local habitat and turn his sons from traditional fishers into low-paid menial workers.

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Ethnotourism Project Mesoamerica
viewtopic.php?t=129&start=44

Questions
IDB Ethnotourism Project Mesoamerica
News - Mass tourism latest menace
Deadline Extension

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The July 18th issue of Honduras This Week (HTW) features a profile of the Sustainable Tourism Bank Watch.
>> http://hondurasthisweek.com/travel.htm

In other news, HTW reports that the Group of Eight has decided to relieve Honduras of $1,372 million of external debt owed to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, reducing the total debt to approximately $2,200 million.
>> http://hondurasthisweek.com

REFERENCE

Sustainable Tourism Bank Watch
http://www.planeta.com/ecotravel/tour/bankwatch.html

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The Illegal Logging Crisis in Honduras
http://www.eia-international.org/cgi/ne ... late&a=280

EIA - Environmental Investigation Agency
http://www.eia-international.org

Center for International Policy
http://www.ciponline.org

English Version (PDF)
http://www.ciponline.org/central_americ ... hFINAL.pdf

EspaÒol (PDF)
http://www.ciponline.org/central_americ ... 4.2005.pdf

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QUOTABLE -- "Development from outside organizations, governments, and businesses is necessary for the nation to move forward but it must be on our terms, through our leaders, and directed towards our goals. Those against development or wishing to profit from it, use these arguments to hijack the development agenda and development money. Development will only work if leaders that are dedicated to Honduras, to her sustained improvement, and to a national dream, lead us."
Honduras This Week Editorial (November 5, 2005)
http://www.hondurasthisweek.com/editorial.htm

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Flickr is an online gallery featured in our essay on citizen journalism
http://www.planeta.com/ecotravel/period/cj.html

Here are a few examples of photos "tagged" with Honduras

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/Honduras