Renzo Abruzzese, Los Tiempos: Until last week, the fires of the last two months have devastated more than 3.5 million hectares. The Government reports daily how many heat sources exist, but maintains a suspicious silence regarding the magnitude of the devastated hectares and their location. Something like this had not been seen before in our…
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Bolivia registers the highest environmental pollution | Bolivia registra la mayor contaminación ambiental
El Diario: Fire devastates national parks Large areas of protected areas were devastated by forest fires that affected fauna and flora in a catastrophic way. The uncontrollable fire that different regions endure places Bolivia as one of the countries with the greatest environmental pollution globally, due to the dense smoke caused by uncontrolled fires and…
Record levels in deforestation | Niveles récord de deforestación
Jonathan Reynolds, Mongabay: Why has deforestation reached record levels in Bolivia? (commentary) In both national and multilateral fora, Bolivia is increasingly showing its reluctance to curb deforestation. President Luis Arce, soon to be entering the penultimate year of his term, has built up a poor environmental record, supporting the unbridled growth of a largely extractive economy,…
Madidi park ranger faces an unjustified judicial process for defending nature | Guardaparque del Madidi enfrenta un injustificado proceso judicial por defender la naturaleza
ANF: The Judge of Caranavi, as a legal substitute for the Judge of Apolo, scheduled the oral trial hearing for November 15 of this year. La Paz, October 28, 2023 (ANF).- The Madidi park ranger Raúl Santa Cruz (42) who tried at the end of March to prevent the entry of heavy machinery intended for…
Survey discloses violence and destruction by fire carried out by a masista group | Encuesta revela violencia y destrucción por fuego hecha por grupo masista
Brújula Digital, El Diario: According to survey Intercultural people are seen as responsible for fires Most people warn that the intercultural sector is responsible for the fires that affected a large part of the country intensely last week due to the smoke generated, according to a study by Diagnosis. The smoke caused by forest fires…
Neither coke nor soy. The forest is not touched | Ni coca ni soya. El bosque no se toca
H.C.F. Mansilla, Los Tiempos: This slogan, chanted in a modest public demonstration on October 25, 2023 by urban youth groups, represents one of the few testimonies of sociopolitical rationality that has been heard in recent times. The expression refers equally to traditional peasant groups and modern private entrepreneurs as those responsible for forest fires. Irrationality—the…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 