Florida-Brazil Partnership Promotes Wetlands Conservation

   
Four students and a professor from the University of South Florida (USF) will travel to Brazil this month to launch the Eco-Brazil 2001 Program. The trip is part of the Everglades-Pantanal Initiative academic exchange program, which will bring a group from Brazil to Florida in March.

The Pantanal is a vast wetland region that stretches over portions of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay. The Everglades-Pantanal Initiative promotes information sharing and cooperation to implement the sustainable development goals set forth by the United Nations in the Rio Conference on Environment and Development in 1992. It is administered by the Florida Center for Environmental Studies as part of the Inter-American Water Resources Network. Its Brazilian partners include the Universidade Católica Dom Bosco, state and federal environmental officials and local NGOs.

For more information about the Everglades-Pantanal Initiative and other Florida Center for Environmental Studies program, see www.ces.fau.edu.