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Category: Environment
Bolivian’s Amazon rainforest ablaze, fires are threatening people and wildlife
Claire F.R. Wordley reports for The Conversation: Up to 800,000 hectares of the unique Chiquitano forest were burned to the ground in Bolivia between August 18 and August 23. That’s more forest than is usually destroyed across the country in two years. Experts say that it will take at least two centuries to repair the ecological damage done by…
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…
With forest wildfires raging, Bolivia seeks help from SuperTanker plane
UPDATE 9:30 Fri Aug 23, 2019: evo has a tv spot announcing he made this tanker possible, he is in permanent campaign, the illegitimate and impossible candidate, rejected in the Referendum of 2/21/2016. This photo shows the tanker while there is a a long line of trucks with water … and the plane arrived at…
500 species at risk due to fire in the Chiquitano Forest
AFP reports via El Deber: The flames have consumed more than 471,000 hectares in the department of Santa Cruz. Environmentalists warn of the serious risk to the variety of ecosystems that coexist in this natural reserve. Almost 500,000 hectares of the Chiquitano Forest were lost in the forest fire that still affects the reserve. Photo:…
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…
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