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DID YOU KNOW?
FACTS & FICTION WITH A MEXICAN TWIST
APRIL 2004
Did You Know That...
...an indigenous community in Michoacán won the 2004 United Nations Development Program Equator Prize?
Paricutín in full eruption
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Every two years, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) awards the Equator prize (worth 30,000 dollars) to communities that have shown "outstanding achievement in the reduction of poverty through the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity." One of the winners of the 2004 Equator prize was the indigenous community of Nuevo San Juan Parangaricutiro, in the state of Michoacán. More than 340 communities, from 65 countries, were nominated for consideration by the Equator Prize jury. On February 19, 2004, the seven winning communities were honored at a prize-giving ceremony held in conjunction with an international Biological Diversity Conference in Kuala Lumpur, in Malaysia.
The success of Nuevo San Juan Parangaricutiro (hereafter referred to simply as Nuevo SJP) is all the more remarkable since their community did not even exist prior to 1944.
That is the year when all the founding residents of Nuevo (New) SJP fled their homes in "viejo" (Old) SJP as the sizeable town was overwhelmed by...
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