Gabriel Romano, EFE, reports for Pagina Siete: The flora and fauna that have survived the fire suffer a “total effect” of the disaster. A jaguar at the Noel Kempff Mercado Zoo in Santa Cruz. Below, animals burned in the Chaco. Photos: EFE / Nature, Earth and Life Foundation (Native) Forest fires in Bolivia threaten the…
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evo to face lawsuit for biocide and ethnocide!
El Diario reports: Concerns of representatives MAS extractivist policy threatens indigenous people and ecosystems Indigenous people raise responsibility lawsuits against Evo Morales and his collaborators for biocide and ethnocide, they do not rule out going to international instances to denounce those abuses The extension of the agricultural frontier, the exploration of hydrocarbons and minerals in…
Bolivia Coca Growers Fight for Control of Legal Production
Cat Rainsford writes for InSight Crime: Violent tensions are flaring in Bolivia’s capital between hostile factions of one of the country’s coca growers’ unions, escalating a long-simmering conflict for control of legal coca production in the Andean nation. The clashes broke out at the beginning of August between two sectors of the Departmental Association of Coca Producers…
The Dirty Business Behind Bolivia’s Clean Energy Plants
Thomas Graham writes for World Politics Review: Use the links provided to read in full this excellent but striking depiction of evo’s delusions! https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/28048/the-dirty-business-behind-bolivia-s-clean-energy-plans
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…
Bolivia must practice what it preaches
Shannon Biggs and Nick Buxton report for The Ecologist: Bolivia’s first indigenous president set out a bold and inspiring vision to save the planet from climate and environmental breakdown just over ten years ago. In an open letter, Evo Morales said “Mother Earth is ill.” He urged the industrialised countries to drastically reduce emissions, increase technology…
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