Michael Snyder and Felipe Luna write for Pulitzer Center: Fishermen use machetes to hack away the giant scales of the invasive paiche before skinning them and casting the refuse into the river. Growing up to three meters and 250 kilograms, the paiche (Arapaima gigas) is the largest scaled fish in the Amazon and one of…
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A journey into the Amazon Jaguar black market
From The Brazilian Report, excerpts pertaining Bolivia follow: By Eduardo Franco Berton: At first glance, Li Ming and his wife Yin Lan look like two ordinary Chinese citizens. Sat on a bench, they greet the relatives who have come to visit them with warm, kind smiles. It’s lunchtime. One of the visitors approaches…
Bolivia creates a nature reserve for world’s rarest macaw
Luciana Pricop reports for Habitat: The blue-throated macaw is one of the most critically endangered species on the planet – only about 300 remain in the wild. However, the birds are getting some much-needed good news. Bolivian conservation organization Asociación Armonía has partnered with the American Bird Conservancy, the International Conservation Fund of Canada, IUCN Netherlands and the World Land Trust to create a protected…
How could we describe what really means to Be Bolivian?
Pagina Siete rightfully describes who we are: In the sights Be Bolivian We Bolivians are hard-working, enterprising people, of fortitude [ñeque], as they say in La Paz. But, just as we have that virtue, we are owners of a horrible defect: we do not like to comply with the law. All generalization is bad, but…
Bolivia said NO will rumble on August 6 in several departments, according to the platforms
The entire World must understand: Bolivian citizens are fighting for their democratic liberties! It is our right to protect the Referendum of February 21, 2016, where we said NO more evo and acolytes. Enough with corruption, waste of funds, narcotraffick, smuggling, chaos, anarchy! The above opinion was made by Bolivian Thoughts. Diego Jaramillo reports for…
Confirmed! Chinese company provides deplorable conditions to Bolivian workers!
evo with his demagogue, bad mouthing western companies, has now brought Chinese to work in Bolivia. Not only our biodiversity is endangered as Chinese promote killing of jaguars for their tooth, but also treat poorly Bolivian workers. It is infuriating to see this, under the “socialist/populist” coca caudillo regime. He made sure he controls the…
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