El Diario: The UN rapporteur, Marco Orellana, expressed concern about the little effort to prevent the use of the chemical in mining that affects the country’s indigenous peoples. Likewise, he said that the trafficking of mercury from Bolivia to the countries of the region frustrates international efforts to eliminate its use in the extraction of…
Category: Health
Titicaca: A polluted lake | Un lago contaminado
EFE, Los Tiempos: Vista del lago Titicaca. | View of Lake Titicaca. | Foto archivo They identify more than a hundred polluting sources of Lake Titicaca More than a hundred polluting sources harm the quality of the waters of Lake Titicaca, according to the latest inventory carried out by the Binational Authority of Lake Titicaca…
Let’s take care of our water | Cuidemos nuestra agua
María René Lievana Sandoval, Coordinadora de Comunicación, Fundación Gaia Pacha, Los Tiempos: BINOMIO. Unidos por el agua, Comunidad de Santa Ana, Beni. | Cortesía – BINOMIAL. United by water, Community of Santa Ana, Beni. | Courtesy Embassy of Sweden rewards three Bolivian teams for generating water projects Within the final event, each team presented their…
There are 40 elderly wild animals and they suffer from 3 illnesses | Hay 40 animales silvestres de la tercera edad y sufren 3 males
Dayana Flores, Opinion: They are birds and mammals that suffer from arthritis, blindness and rheumatism. Some are up to 70 years old. There were at least two deaths due to advanced age. Its two legs are shrunken, denoting that they can no longer carry the weight of its age, 70 years. Regarding the other parrots,…
Irohito Urus Indians: from fishing to robotics in Bolivia – Indígenas Irohito Urus: de la pesca a la robótica en Bolivia
Por PAOLA FLORES, AP News: IROHITO URUS, Bolivia (AP) — Three students from the Irohito Urus ethnic group in the Bolivian highlands have created a robot with the head of an Andean cat using materials from their environment such as reeds to disinfect surfaces such as cell phones and raise awareness among care to combat…
Bolivian gov fails to have action plan to reduce mercury use – Gobierno boliviano no tiene plan de acción para reducir uso de mercurio
Brújula Digital, Página Siete: At the IACHR: UN urges Bolivia to present an action plan to reduce mercury The UN Special Rapporteur for Toxic Substances stated that the illicit trafficking of mercury from Bolivia to other countries in the region is highly worrying. During the 183rd period of sessions, in a hearing before the Inter-American…
