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…
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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…
MBtv: Bolivia festival cancellation hits artisans’ livelihood
MBeditor, Macau Business: [To watch the video, click the photo] Master embroiderer Felix Quisbert Gutierrez, an artisan who creates folkloric dance costumes, laments the economic and cultural effects of the shuttering of his 50-year-old business as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, and worries what the cancelling of celebrations and parties will mean long-term for…
Industrial agriculture threatens a wetland oasis in Bolivia
Gustavo Jimenez, Morgan Erickson-Davis, Mongabay: An oasis within dry Chiquitano forest in eastern Bolivia, Concepción Lake and its surrounding wetland provide valuable habitat for 253 bird, 48 mammal and 54 fish species. However, despite being officially listed as a protected area, cultivation of commodity crops like soy and sorghum is expanding and supplanting habitat. Agricultural…
Condor: en peligro – in peril
Los Tiempos: The Andean condor is reclassified as a species vulnerable to extinction The Andean condor, one of the largest birds in the world capable of flight, the national symbol of Bolivia and the Andean region of South America, was reclassified from a species almost threatened to vulnerable to extinction, according to the 2020 update…
Sighting of super rare Chacoan fairy armadillo in Bolivia ‘a dream come true’
Milan Sime, Mongabay: A sighting of one of the rarest mammals in the world, the elusive Chacoan fairy armadillo, was recently documented by a team of Bolivian biologists. Seldom seen, the animal–which lives among the Gran Chaco dry forests of Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay–has a population that is considered ‘data deficient’ by the IUCN, and…
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