Comments on: Birding Honduras – a Paean to Berta Cáceres

By: Mark Bonta

Mark Bonta — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 01:07:22 +0000

Grahame, I was operating within space constraints, and also attentive to the audience; this is a somewhat atypical venue, and I wanted to make sure I gave ample space to birding and to human rights. I agree entirely with what you write, of course.

By: Deborah Escalet

Deborah Escalet — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 00:00:07 +0000

Thank you for writing this profound message, Mark and thank you Mike and Laura for sharing your exceptional photographs for the post!

By: grahame russell

grahame russell — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 19:06:24 +0000

Thank-you Mark Abonta for this moving and respectful tribute. What i find missing is the north-south context. Berta was the most recent of hundreds of Hondurans assassinated and killed by State forces and State-sponsored death squads since the U.S.- and Canadian-backed military coup in 2009. Since that coup, the US and Canadian governments have been the political-economic-military lifeblood of the repressive, corrupt, undemocratic regimes in power since then. The US and Canadian governments and transnational companies and investors – in the sectors of mining; dams; tourism; producers of african palm, sugarcane, bananas, pineapples; “model cities”; maquiladora sweatshops – have the blood of Berta and hundreds more on their hands. If the US and Canada are not also held to account, and then held to transform unjust and violent relations with repressive regimes around the world, like that of Honduras, then the assassinations and killings of people like Berta and hundreds more will continue unabated along with our “profitable” business and investment opportunities. Solamente. grahame russell

By: Kendra McSweeney

Kendra McSweeney — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 03:19:54 +0000

Powerful and important piece, Mark.

By: Janina Fuller

Janina Fuller — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 13:24:30 +0000

A wonderful tribute to the birds, to Caceras, and to the rich possibility of Honduras. Thank you for the inspiration!