El Diario: More than 500 families abandon their homes due to the rise of the Acre River The level of the Acre River, which reached 14.50 meters on the bank and continues to rise, caused more than 100 families to stay in various shelters and another 400 families to take refuge in the homes of…
Category: Environment
The struggle for the survival of the spectacled bear | La lucha por la supervivencia del oso jucumari
Madeleyne Aguila / Fundación Armonía, Los Tiempos: The spectacled bear lives in the mountainous regions of Bolivia. | Viviana Albarracín “As a member of the bear family and one of the eight bear species in the world, the Andean bear or spectacled bear is the only one that inhabits South America. Therefore, it is important to…
Encroachers and Illegal Miners | Avasalladores y mineros ilegales
Tatiana Castro, Los Tiempos: Park Rangers Must Face Harassment from Encroachers and Illegal Miners Park rangers must confront the lack of human resources, adverse working conditions, harassment from encroachers, and judicial harassment in their tasks of protecting the 23 parks and protected areas in Bolivia. They feel defenseless and unauthorized. The vice president of the…
La Ruta De Las Lagunas
Rides, Adventure Motorcycle: La Ruta De Las Lagunas: A Ride in Southern Bolivia Written by Alexandra Fefopoulou and Stergios Gogos. Posted in Rides It was late June when we arrived at San Pedro de Atacama in northern Chile. Our first encounter with the Andes and the high altitude had already given us an idea of…
This Iconic Salt Hotel In Bolivia Offers Its Guests A Once-in-a-lifetime Experience | Este icónico hotel de sal en Bolivia ofrece a sus huéspedes una experiencia única en la vida
News 18: Every aspect, from the floors and walls to the furniture, ceilings and sculptures, is fashioned from this unique material Each room at Palacio de Sal boasts a unique domed ceiling made of salt bricks. Experiencing the salt flats of Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni is truly otherworldly. Situated at an altitude of 12,000 feet,…
Protecting Amazon’s most biodiverse regions | Protegiendo regiones con mayor biodiversidad del Amazonas
Mary Kate McCoy, Conservation International: In Bolivia, a ‘conservation mosaic’ gets another (big) piece In the remote lowland forests of northwestern Bolivia, a small municipality has taken a big step to protect one of the Amazon’s most biodiverse regions. With support from Conservation International, the municipality of Sena established a law to protect 452,639 hectares…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 