Gabriel Romano, La Prensa Latina: Oruro, Bolivia, Apr 1 (efe-epa).- Gazing at Lake Uru Uru in the southwestern Bolivian province of Oruro, the thought occurs that no amount of effort would be sufficient to reverse the environmental degradation which has left 90 percent of the lake bed a dried-up waste piled high with plastic and…
Category: Environment
Lithium and lies – Litio y mentiras
Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: Economic analysis President Luis Arce decided to lie in Mexico, probably thinking he was in Bolivia.He said that the Quantum electric cars that are made in Cochabamba use lithium batteries made in the country, which is not true: they use lead batteries.The lithium battery plant that the government of the coca…
Who governs Bolivia? – ¿Quién gobierna Bolivia?
Editorial, El Deber: La Chiquitania on the way to becoming another Chapare The Chiquitania is at risk. The protected area of Bajo Paraguá, which belongs to the municipality of San Ignacio de Velasco, has been crossed by clearings, trails and gaps, one of them 8 kilometers long and 12 meters wide, and in the area…
Damn you Chinese triads and those consumers!
Chinese triads target Bolivia’s jaguars in search of ‘American tiger’ parts by Vanessa Romo on 2 March 2021 | Translated by Romina Castagnino, Mongabay: An intelligence-gathering investigation by Earth League International and the Dutch national committee to the IUCN has revealed that Chinese-controlled trafficking syndicates are responsible for smuggling jaguar body parts out of Bolivia. These groups hide…
2 condors released into Bolivian wild as probe held into mass poisoning
La Prensa Latina: Choquekota, Bolivia, Feb 23 (efe-epa).- Two female condors rescued in a rural Bolivian community were returned to their natural habitat on Tuesday after undergoing a rehabilitation process in the municipal biopark of La Paz and as an investigation is underway in the south of the country into the death of around 30…
Un corto animado rescata la leyenda del Salar de Uyuni – An animated short rescues the legend of the Salar de Uyuni
Wara Arteaga, Pagina Siete: After a half-year work, the short will be released on February 28 on the Google Meet platform, days later it will be broadcast on YouTube. According to the Andean oral tradition, the largest salt desert in the world was the result of a great love disappointment: the betrayal of the great…
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