Fema

A Tegucigalpa man was sentenced to four years and six months in prison and fined 9,000 lempiras (about $360) for unauthorized farming, illegal pond construction, and tree-cutting in the Guacerique River watershed, a protected area that supplies the capital's Los Laureles reservoir.

Environmental prosecutors are investigating the unauthorized clearing of a road through a protected water-source buffer zone in Morazán, Yoro, where inspectors found illegal logging to create vehicle access.

Honduras's environmental prosecutor's office is inspecting a warehouse under construction in the Panacam protected area near Santa Cruz de Yojoa, Cortés, to determine whether it violates environmental boundaries.

Honduras's environmental enforcement unit FEMA carried out an operation in the village of San Isidro, Santa Cruz de Yojoa, arresting four people and seizing heavy machinery.