EFE, Los Tiempos: Experts preserve the Atelopus Tricolor, found in Bolivia after 17 years Several organizations joined in a project to protect the Tricolor Harlequin toad or Atelopus tricolor that was thought to be extinct in Bolivia, but after 17 years they found two individuals of this species. This small toad, which is characteristic for…
Category: Environment
Arce ignora y desprecia a los indígenas – Arce ignores and despises the indigenous people
Pagina Siete: Before Arce’s third snub, the march activates its Parliament Marchers who walked for 37 days affirm that they will not humiliate themselves before the Government and that they will apply their autonomy through the Indigenous Parliament. For the third time in eight days, President Luis Arce snubbed the XI Indigenous March in Santa…
Contaminación del río Tuichi – Madidi – Contamination of the Tuichi River
Brujula Digital, Los Tiempos: WCS alerts contamination of the Tuichi River due to mining activity within the Madidi Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) through its deputy director of the Great Madidi Landscape Conservation Program and coordinator of the Interinstitutional Group for Responsible Gold (GIT-OR), Óscar Loayza, warns of the mining contamination of the Tuichi River, which…
Distribución individual de la tierra – Individual land distribution
Pagina Siete: Anapo proposes individual land distribution The National Association of Oilseed Producers (Anapo) asked the National Agrarian Reform Institute (INRA) to act with the eviction of overwhelming people in productive properties and suggests that the land be distributed not only to communities, but also individually. The president of Anapo, Fidel Flores, read a statement…
“It is necessary to heal the serious wounds inflicted on nature”
AMERICA/BOLIVIA – “It is necessary to heal the serious wounds inflicted on nature” urges Archbishop Gualberti Agenzia Fides: Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) – “It is necessary to change our mentality and adopt an ecological spirituality, to stop the irrational exploitation of non-renewable natural resources, wild deforestation, forest fires, even of reserves and national parks. But…
Pink river dolphins – Delfines rosados de río
Monica Machicao, Reuters: Pink river dolphins: Bolivian scientists, fishermen team up to unravel mysteries LA PAZ, Sept 23 (Reuters) – Fishermen who once angled for rare pink river dolphins are working with researchers in Bolivia’s Amazon jungle in a high-tech bid to assure the species’ survival and better understand their needs. Scientists with global environmental…
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