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The Experimental Stations of the Autonomous Universities in Venezuela and their contribution to human rights

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

University conservation areas

Venezuela, at the top of global megabiodiversity, was a regional pioneer with the first ministry of the environment and the early planning of protected areas. Today, however, it reports the reduction, loss, and destruction of training and research spaces in the environmental field — at the same time as an enormous extractivist expansion is taking place over heritage ecosystems and the inadequate management of strategic protected areas. The dismantling and destruction of these spaces include biological stations, experimental farms, and ecological and forest reserves, which are subjected to budget shortages, thefts, and invasions. Likewise, too many museums, biological collections, and laboratories are collapsing due to a lack of personnel and resources, or quite literally, due to their physical destruction.

Concern over the situation of protected areas in Venezuela

Thu, 17 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Venezuela has 105 nationally designated protected areas, covering around 26% of our continental, marine, and insular surface. These spaces have as their main objective the conservation of biological diversity, scenic beauty, and the sustainable management of our natural heritage. But what is happening with the management of protected areas in Venezuela?

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A look at the Mighty Southern Orinoco. First Special Edition.

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qVkBFE65y4

Publication: August 27, 2017.

Synopsis: The opening of the so-called Orinoco Mining Arc (Arco Minero del Orinoco, AMO) to mining exploitation is a worrying threat to one of the areas of greatest biological and cultural diversity in Venezuela. For this reason, Provita, the Venezuelan Society of Ecology, and EXPLORA Nature Projects, in a collaborative and multidisciplinary effort, have compiled and developed two special editions of EXPLORA magazine covering all the aspects that a project of this scope entails — both ecologically and in terms of forest loss, contamination of water sources, and the social and health spheres.

An insight to the Mighty Southern Orinoco. Second Special Edition

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Publication: January 2021.

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End of term of the current Board of Directors of the SVE

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Dear members of the Venezuelan Society of Ecology, We are writing to share the Management Report and Accountability of the current Board of Directors (JD-SVE), covering the 2017–2025 period. With this document, we conclude our term and reiterate the urgent need to organize a new Board of Directors to drive the future of our Society. In the report, you will find a detailed account of the main actions and projects we have carried out, especially during the 2020–2025 period, providing continuity to the report presented at the XII Venezuelan Congress of Ecology. We invite you to review in detail the document we have prepared to learn in depth about the work carried out and the outlook for the SVE, at the following link https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15594204 As a transitional exception, the Secretary for Scientific Publications will voluntarily continue contributing by maintaining the editorial workflow of Ecotrópicos together with the Ecotrópicos Editorial Committee, unless there are objections to this arrangement. We are at your disposal for any questions or comments. We thank you in advance for your attention and collaboration to ensure the continuity and strengthening of the Venezuelan Society of Ecology.

Public Statement of the Venezuelan Society of Ecology (SVE), the Venezuelan Association for the Study of Mammals (AsoVEM), and the Fishermen's Council of Pampatar, Estado Nueva Esparta

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Project to build a “Fauna Refuge” and rehabilitation center for dolphins and other mega-vertebrates in Pampatar, Municipio Maneiro, Estado Nueva Esparta

Contradictions with the Constitution and the law

In response to the public announcement made at a press conference held in Pampatar, Isla de Margarita, on February 17, 2024 by the citizen Minister of the Popular Power for Ecosocialism (MINEC) and President of the National Parks Institute, together with representatives of the company Waterland Mundo Marino, regarding the project in reference, we wish to state our public position on the matter.

Adhesion to the Statement: Runway Extension Project at Gran Roque — Los Roques Archipelago National Park

Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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STATEMENT: PROJECT FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE RUNWAY AT CAYO GRAN ROQUE, LOS ROQUES ARCHIPELAGO NATIONAL PARK

Los Roques Archipelago National Park (Parque Nacional Archipiélago Los Roques, PNALR) was created in 1972 with the objective of protecting a complex marine ecological system of 221,120 hectares, made up of coral islands and rocky islets, coral reefs, lagoons, mangroves, and a wide variety of seabeds at varying depths, including the open sea adjacent to the archipelago. This is the first marine park created in our country and one of the first in the Caribbean region. Any activity to be carried out within the park must take into account the following considerations:

Book of Abstracts of the XII CVE

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The Book of Abstracts of the XII Venezuelan Congress of Ecology is now available for download.

Thank you all for your patience! The Book of Abstracts of the XII Edition of the Venezuelan Congress of Ecology, held at Simón Bolívar University from November 18 to 21, 2019, is now available to view and download. The link is also available together with the other books of abstracts from past congresses at https://svecologia.org/congreso.

Impacts of illegal mining on indigenous peoples of the Venezuelan Amazon

Sun, 24 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Impacts of illegal mining on indigenous peoples of the Venezuelan Amazon.

EXPLORA Magazine. Second Special Edition. 2021.

Since the late 1980s, the Venezuelan Amazon has been besieged by irregular armed groups involved in illegal mining. Back then, the garimpeiros from Brazil were the ones who focused their activities within the Alto Orinoco. This area harbors the biggest population of indigenous peoples in the Venezuelan Amazonian and the country’s most important watershed - also the fourth world’s largest-.

Biodiversity and the sustainable development of tourism in the Amazonas: a socio-economic alternative for the region