Karen Lapizco, World Animal News: 10 Million Hectares Of Amazon Rainforest Has Been Designated As A Protected Area In Bolivia A new protected area of rainforest in the El Gran Manupare Integrated Management Natural Area was just designated by the Municipality of Sena, in Pando, Bolivia. This vast rainforest safeguards many threatened and endangered species, as well…
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In search of El Dorado | En busca de El Dorado
David Smith, The Critic: Bolivia’s future could be bright if it forges its own bold path A century ago, a British explorer — adventurer is probably the better word — named Percy Fawcett, pursued the dream of finding that hidden paradise called El Dorado, the gold city of South America that had obsessed plenty before…
La lejanía no protegió a los Tsimané amazónicos del COVID-19 | Remoteness didn’t protect Amazonian Tsimané from COVID-19
University of Utah, EurekAlert!: El aislamiento colectivo voluntario por sí solo fue ineficaz para mitigar la propagación de la enfermedad infecciosa en comunidades indígenas remotas y de pequeña escala. La intervención médica directa es necesaria durante las pandemias globales. Los pueblos indígenas han sufrido desproporcionadamente por la actual pandemia de COVID-19. Los factores sistémicos, incluida…
Survives 31 days by eating worms | Sobrevivió un mes comiendo gusanos
Amazon jungle: Man survives 31 days by eating worms Vanessa Buschschlüter – BBC News A Bolivian man has described how he managed to survive for 31 days in the Amazon jungle after he got lost. Jhonattan Acosta, 30, got separated from his four friends while out hunting in northern Bolivia. He says he drank rainwater…
Bolivia: Newly identified waterlily species is world’s largest | La especie de nenúfar recién identificada es la más grande del mundo
Helena Horton, The Guardian: Leaves of species grown at Kew Gardens can reach up to three metres in the wild A giant waterlily grown at Kew Gardens has been named as new to science, in the first discovery of its type in more than a century. Scientists at the south-west London garden suspected for decades…
OLALLA’S TITI MONKEY
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY, EurekAlert!: Mono raro se adapta a hábitat fragmentado haciendo dieta y reduciendo actividad El mono titi de Olalla cambia a “alimentos alternativos” y se resguarda en tiempos de escasez Un equipo de científicos de la Sociedad de Conservación de la Vida Silvestre (WCS) y la Universidad de Oxford Brookes descubrió que una…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 