In the Honduran on-line newspaper, El Heraldo, government official and head of a September 2011 fact-finding mission, Major José Marcelino Iraheta, reports on an alarming level of deforestation in legally protected forests, stating that livestock grazing is a major cause for the destruction. http://www.elheraldo.hn/Ediciones/2011/09/07/Noticias/Zona-de-amortiguamiento-de-Biosfera-casi-destruida/(offset)/1/(notacompleta)/1#notacompleta http://www.elheraldo.hn/Ediciones/2011/09/06/Noticias/Comite-ad-hoc-resguardara-la-Biosfera Addressing a conference in Austria on September 22, 2011, international experts warned that lakes and streams in the legendary Alps are in danger of drying due to climate change, noting a loss of water reserves and that glaciers in Switzerland alone have lost one-fifth of their surface area in the past 15 years. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-09/22/c_131154663.htm http://austriantimes.at/news/General_News/2011-09-22/36435/Alps_in_danger_of_drying_out