![]() Most of Saturday morning was given over to business presentations about work being done in their companies to address the environmental challenge. In addition, there was a strong corporate presence. Dr Mario Molina, the Mexican Nobel prize winner for his work on chlorofluorocarbons in the atmosphere also gave a key note talk. ![]() Mexican Presidente Felipe Calderon dropped in last Friday evening, and, Jim Prentice, the Canadian Minister for the environment gave a keynote speech. The congress has had a high profile this year. My impressions too are filtered through the bronchitis which I have been suffering from since I have arrived last Friday which maybe has made me somewhat jaded. I’m writing this on the second day of the second event. The first thing to say about this congress is that it is long! An initial event of three days from 6-8 November followed by another event of five days. “Continues to work for a world in which a healthy and prosperous human society understands wilderness, and has an animated relationship with the complex biological, spiritual, cultural and economic benefits provided by wild nature”. The programme this year states that the WWC: It began in Africa in 1977, and this is the first time it is being held in Latin America. The World Wilderness Congress (WWC), organised by the Wild Foundation, is held once every three or four years. In this post I will write about the Congress and in another post(s) about some of the delights of Mérida. Since then I have written nothing.Ĭoming to Mérida, however, to attend the 9th World Wilderness Congress has inspired me to get back onto the horse again. I then asked my colleague what she thought of the two posts about corruption and she advised me to remove them. A case of discretion being the better part of valour. Interestingly, all my Mexican friends thought it was best to do so. I have to say I felt cowardly doing this. Given the delicate, tense, potentially violent and complex nature of this situation, I decided to remove the post. My blog address was printed in a local paper in the area, together with translations of comments made by an American, which were being used as evidence of his meddling in the internal affairs of Mexico. Just before taking off the two posts about corruption, I had already decided to remove a previous post about a conflict over land on the Michoacán coast. Since then I wrote two more entries – firstly about corruption and politics and then corruption and education – but removed those from the blog following the advise of a colleague at the university where I work. My last entry on this blog about Eugenia Leon is dated 4th August 2009, over three months ago.
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