From the frontlines: Fighting Bolivia’s forest fires

Monica Evans reports for Forests News, CIFOR: A firefighter’s account of the country’s burning dry forests Between 22 and 27 August 2019, estimates say forest fires caused largely by land-clearing for agriculture in Bolivia doubled. Photo: Romaneth Hidalgo Bolivia – When firefighter Daniela Azero and her team first saw the extent of the uncontrolled forest fires…

Indigenous: Government only takes care of its image

El Diario reports: It does not declare a national disaster On Wednesday 4 of this month they will evaluate the trial of responsibilities against President Evo Morales for “ecocide”, “ethnocide” and “biocide” The forest fire recorded in the Chiquitania region, which exceeds 1,100,000 hectares of forest, caused irreparable losses to nature. The Government did not…