Haxie MEYERS-BELKIN reports for France 24: to watch the video, please use link below: In Bolivia, dinosaur remains attract tourists from across the globe. A stone’s throw from the city of Sucre, a cliffside features the largest concentration of dinosaur footsteps in the world. But concerns over erosion have led park officials to seek UNESCO…
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They discover the procedure to stop the deterioration of Samaipata rock
Pagina Siete reports: Experts in conservation-restoration will apply technology on the reliefs, so that the stone is regenerated and prevents the absorption of water, allowing the transpiration of the rock. The Fort of Samaipata receives 70,000 tourists every year, according to the local mayor’s office. Photo: Pinterest The largest carved stone in the world is…
Where unsustainable mining once reigned, ‘radical change’ beckons
Olivia Desmit for Human Nature, a blog from Conservation International: In Potosí, Bolivia, most families survive on less than US$ 2 per day. The local indigenous community in this Andean city is economically dependent on mining — an infamously grueling and hazardous way of life here — but a nearby mine, the country’s largest, will close in…
Miniature Fair in Bolivia: Alasitas 2019 – Jan 24 to Feb 24
El Diario reports: Alasita 2019 Tradition invites to dream today The Ekeko will be the central character in the inauguration of the Alasita 2019. Today [01/24/2019] the traditional fair of Alasita 2019 is inaugurated, a celebration of the miniature that will be attended by the citizenship, the municipal, departmental and national authorities, leaving “to fly…
Caporal dance was claimed internationally
El Diario reports: In more than 70 cities they moved to the rhythm of the Bolivian dance that enchants the world Strength and agility, the main characteristics of the dance of Bolivian folklore, caporal. When the clocks marked three in the afternoon on Sunday, thousands of people moved to the rhythm of the Bolivian caporal…
Bolivia and Peru vow to clean up polluted Lake Titicaca
Dan Collyns reports for America CGTN: Straddling the borders of Peru and Bolivia, is South America’s largest freshwater lake — Lake Titicaca. But today the once pristine body of water is blighted by pollution and it is a problem that both nations want to address. CGTN’s Dan Collyns repors from Copacabana, on the Lake’s Bolivian…
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