Maxwell Radwin, Mongabay: COLCHANI, Bolivia — Bolivia is taking another shot at lithium investment. After decades of stalled projects and soured relationships with international investors, the central government, under left-wing President Luis Arce, is evaluating offers from six overseas mining companies eager to help the country set up a monopoly on the world’s largest deposit…
Category: Environment
What are you waiting for, President, to stop the violence? – ¿Qué espera, presidente para frenar la violencia?
Editorial, El Deber: Impotence and helplessness in Santa Cruz. The encroachments on land reach intolerable extremes, in the face of the indifferent gaze of the national government, the Police and the Public Prosecutor’s Office. The images of yesterday’s confrontation are horrifying, because they leave evidence that these people who want to take possession of others…
While gov seeks support from miners, fails to control mercury pollution – Mientras el gobierno busca el apoyo de los mineros, no logra controlar la contaminación por mercurio
Thomas Graham, Yale School of the Environment: In Bolivia, Mercury Pollution Spreads Amid a Surge in Gold Mining A boom in small-scale gold mining in Bolivia has raised concerns about pollution from mercury used in the mining process. Researchers are citing the health impacts on downstream villages, but the government has yet to act to…
Drug trafficking and illegal logging | Narcotráfico y la tala ilegal
Ivan Paredes, El Deber: The Bolivian Amazon under attack: drug trafficking and illegal logging penetrate the area An investigation shows how gangs dedicated to the extraction of wood operate in the Amazon basin. Bolivia and Ecuador are the most affected by this crime. Behind them are the drug trafficking mafias that use the same routes….
Claim to respect the environment but are highly ineffective | Dicen respetar el medio ambiente pero son muy ineficaces
El Diario: Las primeras víctimas de los incendios producidos por chaqueos indiscriminados son los animales. | The first victims of fires caused by indiscriminate slash and burn are animals. | Foto: RRSS They denounce the ineffectiveness of the Ministry of the Environment in the face of natural disasters The problems of drought and high temperatures…
Yareta (Azorella compacta)
Máximo Liberman, Página Siete: Yareta, the extraordinary survivor of the Andes Its resin is used in traditional cough medicines and as an antimicrobial; its overexploitation marks it as an endangered species in the Red Book of Endangered Flora of Bolivia. The yareta or llareta, whose scientific name is Azorella compacta, belongs to the Apiaceae family;…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 