El Diario reports: As estimated by the Chiquitania Foundation The devastating fire in the Chiquitana region, coupled with deforestation and fragmentation of natural ecosystems, affected more than 40 million trees with commercial value The observatory maintains that part of the forest production land favored livestock and agriculture that resorted to inadequate clearing and “slash-and-burn” practices…
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Devastating fires in Bolivia: A political tool
Carlos Guzman reports for Open Democracy: Uncontrolled fires linked to agricultural expansions are being used as a political tool during this election year in Bolivia and are causing catastrophic consequences. Español. 28 August 2019, Bolivia, Santa Rosa de Tucabaca: The Chiquitania forest on fire. | Photo: Gaston Brito/DPA/PA Images. All rights reserved. The fires in the lowlands of…
Bolivia’s forest fires, beef exports and video evidence of who started those fires!
Bolivian Thoughts opinion: Initially is interesting to see this “Dialogo Chino” site, Chinese are aggressively inserting in Latin America, it doesn’t matter how they kill our biodiversity, or how they treat local employees, they have the money and little by little are pushing their way in. Miriam Jemio reports for Dialogo Chino, cartoon from Pagina…
Bolivia’s fires destroy ‘heritage’ rock art sites
AFP reports for France 24: Wildfires that have raged across forests and grassland in eastern Bolivia for weeks have destroyed rare rock art sites, archeologists announced Tuesday. “We believe that the damage is big and wide in terms of our heritage of rock art,” said Danilo Drakic, chief archeologist in the eastern Santa Cruz department….
Bolivian Bishops Express Concern about Amazon Fires
Mario Schiavone reports for NewsBook: The Bolivian Episcopal Conference considering the Amazon disaster With the evocative title “Our common home is on fire” the Bolivian Amazon Church has issued a statement that highlights concern and clamor for the catastrophe of fires and the consequences of this ongoing ecological disaster, Fides News Agency reported. The Bishops’…
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…
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