Category: La Paz

“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…

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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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Hectáreas quemadas – 2021 – Burned hectares

ANF, Los Tiempos: FAN quantifies the area burned by fires in 8 months at 1.5 million hectares The Friends of Nature Foundation (FAN) quantified in more than 1.5 million hectares the areas burned by the fires in the nine regions of the country, from January to August of this year. To perform the quantification, Sentinel-2…

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Indigenous people question misuse of prior consultation for Chepete and El Bala projects – Indígenas cuestionan mal uso de consulta previa para proyectos Chepete y El Bala

Silvana Vincenti, El Deber: The Commonwealth of Indigenous Communities of the Beni, Tuichi and Quiquibey Rivers issued a statement on these hydroelectric plants, which have already been rejected, and which they believe will cut off their rivers The Commonwealth of Indigenous Communities of the Beni, Tuichi and Quiquibey Rivers, an organization that was created in…

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