Category: Environment

Illegal mining, absent state | Minería ilegal, Estado ausente

Editorial, El Deber: In the south of the Madidi National Park, in the municipality of Apolo in the department of La Paz, community members and illegal miners shoot each other, burn houses, kidnappings take place and the State makes its complete absence shine there. On Tuesday of this week there was a confrontation that left…

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Toborochi yarn | Hilo de toborochi

Eduardo Ruilowa, El Deber: Foto: Jorge Ibáñez Fibra de algodón de toborochi | Toborochi cotton fiber (Ceiba Speciosa)/ Foto: Jorge Ibáñez La Tejedora Juana Carrillo logró el primer hilado con algodón de toborochi | Weaver Juana Carrillo achieved the first yarn with toborochi cotton / Foto: Jorge Ibáñez [Haga click aqui para ver el video]…

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Pre-Columbian City | Ciudad precolombina

Archaeology: Pre-Columbian City in Bolivia Investigated With Airborne Lasers BONN, GERMANY—A pre-Columbian landscape inhabited by the people of the Casarabe culture between A.D. 500 and 1400 has been mapped in Bolivia’s Amazon rain forest by archaeologist Heiko Prümers of the German Archaeological Institute and his colleagues, according to a Science News report. Prümers said that the lidar…

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Natural parks, land of drugs | Parques naturales, tierra de drogas

Editorial, El Deber: The national parks of Bolivia are abandoned, the State does not take care of them and, as a natural consequence, drug traffickers appropriate them to install their cocaine factories there, when the settlers are not the ones who arrive first to occupy land, to clear and settle illegally with the help of…

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Dolphins playing with an anaconda – Bufeos jugando con una anaconda

2 male dolphins were seen playing with an anaconda while sexually aroused in a perplexing encounter captured by researchers Kelsey Vlamis, Business Insider: Researchers in Bolivia captured a rare encounter between Bolivian river dolphins and Beni anacondas. At one point, two adult male dolphins held onto the snake and swam in unison while sexually aroused….

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