Deforestation by the hand of the masismo | Deforestación de la mano del masismo

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Deforestation: Data dismantles the regime’s discourse on Mother Earth

By María René Álvarez, national deputy

An investigation by the Friends of Nature Foundation (FAN) concludes that between 2011 and 2022, in Bolivia a loss of forest cover of 37% was reached.

Deforestation, land clearing, encroachment, indiscriminate burning, felling of trees and wood trafficking are part of the problem.

The same report confirms that Santa Cruz is the most affected department with 20% deforestation. The original forest of the department was reduced from 32 million hectares to 26 million hectares.

And within the department, it is the Chiquitano forest that registers the most losses with 30% of hectares in San Ignacio, San Rafael, San José de Chiquitos, Roboré, San Miguel, El Carmen Rivero Tórrez, Concepción, as well as Charagua and Guarayos.

This entire panorama is a direct consequence of the predatory policies of the central level and the MAS regime, both with Evo Morales and with Luis Arce.

The report cites, for example, the decisions made at the Sembrando por Bolivia Food Summit in 2015, which expanded the area approved for agricultural production to 10 million hectares, with the applause of a part of the business sector that only seeks revenue. immediately as does any social organization related to the masista regime.

We must also remember the Law for the Rational Use and Management of Burning of April 2019, which led to the worst fire in recent times in Chiquitania and the Amazon, with more than 5.3 million hectares lost and the destruction of flora and fauna of this important area.

All this panorama explains the refusal made by Luis Arce to reach the goal of zero deforestation in Bolivia, during the Amazon Summit in Belém do Pará, held in Brazil last August.

Added to this are the predatory projects, with illegal mining and cooperative mining that now have an endorsement to sell gold to the State and the specifications that they presented in La Paz to be able to enter protected areas, when they are already installed de facto as is already the case. inside the Tipnis.

Finally, there are the highway projects that also invade the country’s protected areas and nature reserves, especially in the eastern part of the country.

The most affected national parks turn out to be, according to the FAN document, Amboró, Isiboro Sécure (Tipnis), Carrasco and San Matías. And also the protected areas Laguna Concepción, Río Grande and Valles Cruceños and Güenda Urubó.

This last case, with the La Guardia – Buena Vista highway, is the one that we have denounced this year from the Secretary of the Environment, Climate Change, Protected Areas and Natural Resources of the Chamber of Deputies, because it also puts the aquifers that supply the of the liquid element to Santa Cruz, and that the regime insists on approving without measuring the consequences to the life of the population.

All these objective, measurable and verifiable data confirm that the policies of the supposed “defense of Mother Earth” that the MAS has managed since it came to power, was and is only a populist and demagogue discourse, because in fact Bolivia with its protected areas and its forests are worse than ever, heading for an irreparable environmental disaster.

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