Madison Lemelin reports for Rainforest Trust: This week, Rainforest Trust and partner Wildlife Conservation Society-Bolivia (WCS-Bolivia) established the Rhukanrhuka Municipal Reserve. The 2,123,749-acre reserve in the Beni region protects grasslands found in the transition area between the Sub-Andean and Llanos de Mojos Ecosystems. The Beni grasslands, an area twice the size of Portugal, is South…
Month: June 2019
Trust yourself and make your own everything: Hear the artist hustle of Amado Espinoza
John Jared Hawks reports for Startland: Whether directing a contemporary indigenous stage performance, covering the Beatles classic Elanor Rigby with a pan flute and charango for TEDxKC or creating a diatonically-tuned bendy-straw, Amado Espinoza understands the importance of fully committing to a pursuit. “For me, being a professional musician means when you dedicate your entire life to music,”…
Construction sector registers its lowest growth in 13 years
Juan Carlos Salinas reports for El Deber: In 2018 the Gross Domestic Product of the sector closed at 3.54%, according to the INE. In 2007 there was the highest growth with 14.35%. For analysts, it is the effect of deceleration. For the first time, in 13 years (2006-2018), the performance of the construction sector recorded…
On a more likely presidential election fraud: under evo the perspective of the economy, which went from “stable” to “negative” and is “uncertain” beyond 2019
Fitch reports, for Spanish use Pagina Siete’s last bottom link: Fitch Revises Bolivia’s Outlook to Negative; Affirms IDR at ‘BB-‘ Fitch Ratings – New York – 20 June 2019: Fitch Ratings has affirmed Bolivia’s Long-Term Foreign Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at ‘BB-‘ and revised its Outlook to Negative from Stable. KEY RATING DRIVERS The…
Bolivia lost 18.7 million hectares of its Amazon forest in 13 years
Berthy Vaca reports for El Deber: The damage is revealed by a report called Amazonia at the crossroads, which looks at six activities that pressure and threaten the Amazon in nine countries. Agricultural expansion is one of the main causes of deforestation in the country. On June 5 of this year, an international report was…
Fracking in the Bolivian jungle
Stefan Cramer writes in the Ecologist: Bolivian farmers have been resisting gas exploration in the invaluable Tariquía National Reserve – but they need international support. Bolivian president Evo Morales was inaugurated in 2006 as the first indigenous person to be sworn in as a president of a sovereign nation. Since then, he has shown extraordinary…
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