Manfredo Kempff, El Diario: Assault in the national parks A sign of civilization and culture in a country is to create and support its protected areas, and within that is, of course, the maintenance and care of national parks, which are specific areas, where vegetation, waters and the fauna cannot be trampled by man. In…
Category: Environment
Couple rescues bees threatened by deforestation in Bolivia
Reuters, Daily Sabah: A couple in Bolivia is moving honey bees to a sanctuary they created to address a staggering decline in the insects’ colonies due to deforestation and coca farming, which has encroached on their habitat. For 10 years, zootechnical engineering vet Eric Paredes and his wife Cinthya Callisaya Yujra have scoured the humid,…
Why Bolivia Should Be Your Next Wine Destination
Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler: And how you can start drinking Bolivian wine right now. In 2013, Montevideo, Uruguay hosted a blind wine-tasting contest. Tasters sampled tannat wines, made with a grape originating (but not universally beloved) in France, that is now a prized export of Uruguay. The surprise winner: a Bolivian wine. It was Bolivia’s first-ever grand…
Water Security In Bolivia Declines From Glacier Melt
By Olivia Berntsson, theowp.org: Bolivia’s Tuni glacier has shrunk rapidly over the past decade, now putting the nation’s capital city in a critical water shortage. Located in the heart of South America, the landlocked country experiences low rainfall and regular droughts. The 800,000 citizens of La Paz have depended on water from the glaciers of the…
Wanderlust: Lake Titicaca
Felicity Williams, The Yorker: In a world where leaving the house has become a novelty, travelling abroad has become but a distant memory. Yet, the world is still an incredible place to call home, though we cannot see it in the flesh. To help kickstart your post-Covid bucket list, here is everything you should know…
Lake Poopó: why Bolivia’s second largest lake disappeared – and how to bring it back
The Conversation: A huge lake in Bolivia has almost entirely disappeared. Lake Poopó used to be the country’s second largest, after Lake Titicaca, and just a few decades ago in its wet season peak it would stretch almost 70km end to end and cover an area of 3,000 sq km – the size of a small country…
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