Bill Would Restore Choluteca River Basin and Protect Its Forests

Published on Honduras Daily · Jul 29, 2026 · Originally reported July 29, 2026 by Congreso Nacional

A congressman introduced legislation to reforest the Choluteca River basin, declare it a single system in need of coordinated conservation, and ban new logging and land-conversion permits in riverside and protected areas, aiming to ease the drought and flooding that hit southern Honduras.

An auto-translated English version isn’t available for Congreso Nacional, so this opens the original in Spanish. Honduras Daily curates and summarizes; the reporting is theirs.

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