Editorial, Página Siete: Un-protected areas The government of Luis Arce has recently signed a controversial agreement with the Regional Federation of Gold Mining Cooperatives of the North of La Paz (Fecoman), in which both agree to continue the procedures for the exploitation of gold in the protected areas of Madidi, Cotapata and Apolobamba. The agreement…
Category: Environment
Gastronomy – BOLIVIA – Gastronomía
EFE, Los Tiempos: Gastronomy. Alligator meat beats hamburgers in Bolivia Bolivia, a country whose attachment to culinary tradition made McDonald’s leave, has, however, adopted the consumption of alligator thanks to Marsia Taha, best revelation chef in Latin America 2021 and involved in projects that help the country’s indigenous communities. In addition to having put La…
Cañahua: Grain that resists climate change | Grano que resiste al cambio climatico
Andres Rodriguez, Opinion: The Quechua engineer who rescued from oblivion the grain that resists climate change Trigidia Jiménez’s life was always linked to the field. Her contact with the earth, with the sun and nature are her thing. Her first memories of her agriculture come from her father, who passed on his love for food…
New subspecies of Puma Jaguarundí (Herpailurus yagouaroundi) or Otter Cougar | Nueva subespecie de Puma Yaguarundí (Herpailurus yagouaroundi) o Puma Nutria
Correo del Sur: STUDY OF A TEACHER AT THE UABJB IN BENI They investigate a new species of Puma in Benian land Marcos Greminger, researcher and professor at the Autonomous University of Beni José Ballivián (UABJB), began an investigation after the appearance in Beni of an apparent new subspecies of Puma Yaguarundí (Herpailurus yagouaroundi) or…
Not like that Mennonites, not like that! – ¡Así no menonitas, así no!
Mongabay Latam – Ivan Alejandro Paredes, El Deber: Bolivia: indigenous territories cornered by the agricultural expansion of a Mennonite community The incursion of Mennonites is reaching an intangible indigenous territory, which is San Antonio de Lomerío, the first indigenous municipality in Bolivia. The Global Forest Watch platform has detected more than 42 thousand deforestation alerts…
Chaco: Ñembi Guasu
Mongabay: The protected area that isn’t: Bolivia’s Ñembi Guasu beset by fires, farms, roads by Rocío Lloret on 17 October 2022 | Translated by Sarah Engel This report is part of a journalistic collaboration between Mongabay Latam, La Región and Red Ambiental de Información. ROBORÉ, Bolivia—The Ñembi Guasu region is referred to as the “great refuge” by the Guaraní people of…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 