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January 2000

g Review: NGOs in Latin America - Ron Mader
g Oeneges? - Byron Real
g Rosarito's Animal Shelter - Merritt Clifton
g Ecotourism and Community Participation: Huatulco, Mexico - Loretta Ishida
g Books That Change the World - Ron Mader
b Millennium - Yahoo.com
b Tools for Small Farmers - Arid Lands Newsletter
b Green Means Food, Red Means Starvation - Stan Gotlieb/Letters from Mexico
b State of Emergency Declared in Ecuador - Miami Herald
b Advice for Journalists to Prosper In the 2000s - Content Exchange
b Empire of the Disconnected - D Keith Robinson/Alistapart
b Off the beaten path: Galapagos - Barbara Spring/Igora
b Greening Industry - World Bank (Book)
b Opportunities for Improving Environmental Compliance in Mexico - Susmita Dasgupta/World Bank
b Measuring the impacts of the South Bay Ocean Outfall at the US-Mexico Border - Lori Saldaña
b The Mahogany Trail - Jim Nations/Gone Tomorrow
b Ecuador: Una ruta de volcanos - Hoy
b Web Conference: World Commission on Dams - Issues in Displacement, Rehabilitation and Development
b The Mesoamerican Biological Corridor - Craig Metrick
b Revolutionary Tourists - Chris Thompson/Mother Jones

February 2000

g February Book Reviews - Ron Mader
b Ecuador Dispatches - Peter Berg/Planet Drum
b Native Communities of the Borderlands - borderlines
b Rethinking Tourism Project E-News
b Venezuela's Oriente - Phil Gunson/Travel Latin America
b Las comunidades nativas deben beneficiarse con el ecoturismo - El Comercio Peru

March 2000

g Spotlight on Indigenous Groups and Tourism in Ecuador - Ron Mader
g Beyond the Gringo Trail: A Conversation with Mark Mann - Ron Mader
g Cycling through the labrynths of bureaucracy in Mexico City: Bicitekas - Tom Dieusaert
g Discovering Tampico's Subtle Delights - Jerry Scott Mills
g The Garifuna: A Changing Future - Pamela Conley
g Red Mexicana de Ecoturismo - Internet Workshop
b Mexican Government, Mitsubishi Corporation Agree Not to Pursue San Ignacio Saltworks - Mitsubishi/ELAN
b Water Woes in Mexico City - Naomi Adelson/Business Mexico
b Can Mexico's Largest Lake be Saved? - Tony Burton/Mexconnect
b Seductive Seafood - Michele Back/Salon
b First Footing - Joe Cummings/The Guardian
b Picking The Right Travel Guide - Nick Selby
b Bolivian Water War - Resource Center of the Americas

April 2000

g Tianguis of Tourism Alternatives in Mexico - Ron Mader
g Report from Uxpanapa: Can bromeliads save Veracruz' last rainforest? - Steve Ginsberg
g Oaxaca's Pacific Coast Lagoons - John Noble
g An Argument for Membership Based Sustainable Ecotourism Initiatives: The Case of Pronatura Veracruz - Jim Dion
g Environmental Threats and Conservation in Southern Mexico - Les Beletsky
g Ecuador Dispatches - Peter Berg
g Review: Saving the Gray Whale - Ron Mader
g Notes From the Osa: Costa Rica's Dedication to Green - Kate Kalmbach
g A New Revolution in Nicaragua: Edu-tourism
b Shades of Green - Standard.com
b The Alameda - El Centrico
b The world is no longer the world - Michael Ventura/Austin Chronicle
b Honduran biologist provides publicity for nature - Maria Fiallos/Honduras This Week
b Agencies struggle to fund Guanaja environmental protection - Wendy Griffin/Honduras This Week
b Many agencies working to protect Bay Islands reefs - Wendy Griffin/Honduras This Week
b Sustainable development plan needed to save Bay Islands ecosystem - Wendy Griffin/Honduras This Week
b Biodiversity Pioneer Turns to CD-ROM to Spread His Message - Nina Willdorf/Chronicle of Higher Education
b Ecuador: Reflections on the January 2000 Popular Uprising - Guillermo Delgado/ISLA

May 2000

g Sustainable Ecotourism in North America
g Ecotourism Champion: Conversation with Hector Ceballos - Ron Mader
g Campeon del Ecoturismo: Conversacion con Hector Ceballos-Lascurain
g Internet Travel Connections: Conversation with Michael Shapiro - Ron Mader
g Baptism by Beat - Dominic Hamilton
g Visiting the Witches of Veracruz - David Lida
g Review: Street Reclaiming - Ron Mader
g Review: Coming back to Life - Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown - Ron Mader
g El Futuro del Turismo de Aventura y Naturaleza - Rodolfo Olmedo
g The Agony of the Ecuadorian Choco - Byron Real
g What makes a gourmet coffee? - Lisa Maldonado
g Independent Publishing - Conversation with Harry Pariser - Ron Mader
b Diary of a Web User - Travel Weekly
b Drug Control or Biowarfare? - Sharon Stevenson and Jeremy Bigwood/Mother Jones
b Bilingual nature guide training program - Jon Kohl/Honduras This Week
b Cuba cruises available for U.S. citizens - Ted Scull/MSNBC
b Fragments of Time - A List Apart
b Who's guiding the guidebooks? - Herb Hiller/St. Petersberg Times

June 2000

g Kapawi - Story of an Ecuadorian Ecolodge - Arnaldo Rodriguez
g Honduras' Sierra de la Botija - Chris Humphrey
g Saving the Gray Whale: A Conversation with Serge Dedina - Ron Mader
g June 2000 Book Reviews: South America on a Shoestring - Ron Mader
b Honduras Homework - Jon Kohl/G21
b Rethinking Tourism Project E-News June 2000
b Social Tourism in Rural Communities - David Barkin/Kiskeya Publications
b A walk through modern day Havana - Belkis Kambach/New Traveler
b Nightlife in Rio - Elaine Paoloni/New Traveler
b Forest Corruption Report Covered Up - Paul Brown/The Guardian
b Shakeout time has arrived for Web travel sites and surfers - Craig Stoltz/The Washington Post
b Sustainable Coffee in Bolivia - Jason Girard
b Towering Over Panama's Rainforest - Jim Morelli/CNN
b Lost in the Lost World - Tony Perrottet/Utne
b The End of the Cuban Embargo? - James Hall/Blue Ear
b Dam Threatens Belize Wildlife Habitat - NRDC
b Ecoturismo vs. Sol y Playa - Yaotzin Botello/Reforma

July 2000

g Suggestions for travel agencies entering Mexico's alternative tourism market - Ron Mader
g Amtave: Experiencias de una asociacion - Marlene Ehrenberg
g Lessons Learned: Mundo Ogima - Marjorie Gutierrez
g Lessons Learned: Contraste - Lilia Gussen Childs
g Battling Mining in Ecuador: Ecuador's Carlos Zorrilla - Steve Ginsberg
g Permethrin: A Low Toxicity Alternative to DEET Repellent For Jungle Trekkers - Derek Parent
g Whale Watching in Patagonia - Sophie Hooper
g Book Review: Marine Mammals of the Gulf of Mexico - Ron Mader
g How to write a media release - Ron Mader
g Costa Rica's Chirripo National Park - Greg Green
g Exploring Mexico City
g Exploring the Gulf of Mexico
b Mexican Baseball on the Web - Ron Mader/Business Mexico
b Desert Architecture - Arid Lands Newsletter
b Defending the Forest and other crimes - John Ross/Sierra Club
b Two Craft Towns of Lake Pátzcuaro - Jennifer Rose/Mexico Connect

August 2000

g Costa Rica's Chirripo National Park - Greg Green
g Mexico Connection: Conversation with David McLaughlin - Ron Mader
g August 2000 Book Reviews: Mexico City Handbook - Ron Mader
b Gulf of Mexico on the Web - Ron Mader/Business Mexico
b Net offers an ounce of prevention - Michael Shapiro/SF Examiner
b And a Test for Fox - Mark Hertsgaard /Washington Post
b Explorar las rutas mexicanas del ecoturismo - Ecologica
b A Return to the City or How Mexico Seduces - Joe Cummings/Mexico Connect

September 2000

g Re-Imaginging Mexico Ecotourism Conference Summary
b Mexico on the Web: Volcanoes - Ron Mader/Business Mexico
b How the UN sold its soul to big business - George Monbiot/The Age
b Swimming with the Crocodiles - Jules Siegel/Cafe Cancun
b Ecological Pride - Jules Siegel/Cafe Cancun
b Brazil Ecotourism Book Reviews - Bill Hinchberger/BrazilMax
b Reality strands airlines in Orbitz - James Christie/Redherring.com
b Ecuador Volcano a Tourist Draw - Carlos Cisternas/AP
b Where does diving fit into an eco lodge? - Karl Fellenius/Underwater Council of British Colombia
b World Tourism Day Speech by Mexican President Zedillo
b Camping In The Peten Rainforest - David Eidell/People's Guide
b Buying Prescription Drugs in Mexico - David Eidell/People's Guide

October 2000

g Trip to the Southern Pantanal - Ronda Green
g Raising Standards on the Web: A Conversation with John Shores - Ron Mader
g Community Tourism in Peru: Taquile, Lake Titicaca - Ross Mitchell
g Mexico's Botanical Gardens - Blanca Robleda
g Mountaineering in Mexico
g Book Review: e-topia
g Rio Machacho - Tourism for a Better Planet - Scott Braman
g Jose's Birds - Ellen Passmore
g An Open and Shut Case: Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology - Melissa Biggs
b Mexico on the Web: Guadalajara - Ron Mader/Business Mexico
b Ozone Hole Expands to Chilean City - Ray Lilley, Associated Press
b Wild Treasures of Bolivia - American Museum of Natural History
b Trade and the Environment Conference - CEC
b The Web is Like Canada - Joe Clark/A List Apart
b Makers of the lost arts - Jonathan Kandell/LA Times Magazine
b Eradicating Democracy: The US in Bolivia - Foreign Policy in Focus
b Lo Mejor de Chat con Ron Mader - Reforma

November 2000

g Honduras 2.0: Conversation with Chris Humphrey - Ron Mader
g Cuba by Horse and Bicycle - Nancy Willis
g Adventure Tourism in Southern Quintana Roo - Bruce and June Conord
g A Visit to Aktun Chen - Bruce and June Conord
g Exploring Oaxaca
b Mexico on the Web: Health - Ron Mader/Business Mexico
b Ancient secrets of Maya civilisation revealed - David Keys/The Independent
b Mexico Top 20 Adventures - Ron Mader/GORP
b Generation Green - by Heather Millar/Sierra
b Tools for a Green Generation - Sierra
b Honduras' Tallest peak struggled to become park, yet still losing trees - Larry Lee/Honduras This Week
b Ecologists slam Mexico hotel plan for turtle zone - Planet Ark
b Amazon Railway to Hell - Bill Hinchberger/BrazilMax.com
b The Right Tact to Whale Watching - Bill Hinchberger/BrazilMax.com
b Hidden depths in the grandest canyon of all - Michael Wood/Guardian
b Finding and Choosing a Local Tour Operator, Guide or Outfitter - Gonomad.com
b Do we need the international year of ecotourism? - Anita Pleumarom, Tourism Investigation and Monitoring Team/RTP
b Interview with Ron Mader - Kennerly Clay/Traveler's Writers Spot

December 2000

g Exploring 2002: The International Year of Ecotourism
g Ecotourism Certification
g Report on Brazilian Ecotourism - Bill Hinchberger
g Costa Rica Travels and Travails - Eric van den Berghe
g Rafting Chiapas - June Conord
g Biking in the Yucatan - Theresa Russell
g Best Books of 2000 - Ron Mader
g Exploring the Yucatan
b Mexico on the Web: Best of 2000 - Ron Mader/Business Mexico
b Isla de Ometepe, Nicaragua - Michelle Sydney/Gonomad.com
b Land of the Submerged Crocodile - John Mitchell/Wildlife Conservation Society
b Panama: Beyond the Canal - John Mitchell/Gonomad.com
b Choosing an Ecotour - Ron Mader/Gonomad.com
b Ecologica - Ecoturismo


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