Honduras News – Daily News about Honduras

The Institute of Forestry (ICF) has adopted a new security system to combat illegal trafficking of wood.

The document which records the quantities of timber cut to control exploitation of the forests will be revised.
The document contains innovative measures such as a watermark with the logo of the ICF and other images of the same technology throughout to prevent forgery.
The previous authorization was only a single leaf where one would write the amount of wood cut, along with the signature and seal of the appropriate authority, which made it was easy to duplicate.

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Severe weather struck Honduras last night. High winds of 70km per hour caused damage to trees and electrical lines, affecting at least 80 families.

The Permanent Contingency Commission (COPECO) said this is the 12th cold front of the season, and with it came strong winds, cool temperatures, and forceful rains.

The National Energy Company (ENEE), hopes to restore the service to the hospital Mario Catarino Rivas and the Independent National University of Honduras in the Sula Valley by 4:00 p.m. today. Many other schools were forced to suspend classes due to the energy outages. Two electrical posts in the free zone of Puerto Cortes succumbed to strong winds, leaving communities such as Choloma, and Santa Cruz of Yojoa without electricity.

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Excerpt: Every year, the Honduran government loses six to eight million dollars, and the municipalities around 1.6 million dollars, in unpaid taxes resulting from the illegal timber trade.

Forestry expert Rigoberto Sandoval told Tierramerica that the forest mass and rich diversity that existed two decades ago in this country “have been reduced substantially due to the lack of clear policies.

“The government must urgently take responsibility for its failure to study and inventory the nation’s natural resources. As long as the prevailing attitude is that research funds are an expense rather than an investment, we will continue groping our way blindly with respect to the environment, without stopping to consider that we are losing the country’s natural wealth,” he said…Read Honduran Forest Article Here.

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Some two months ago the Chairman of Friendship Society Bulgaria – Honduras, Spas Tashev, came across an interesting bit of information not known before in Bulgaria: The only river in the entire world that has been named after Bulgaria (in Spanish Rio Bulgaria) happens to flow near the city of La Ceiba on the Caribbean coast of Honduras.

After further research, it was found that a Bulgarian community has been living in Honduras for at least 100 years. At the beginning of the 20th century, that community discovered an unknown river and named it “Bulgaria” in honor of their home country.

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