Regardless of who is at the Bolivian government, my respect and admiration for the Bolivian Park Rangers, for the local and international NGOs that over decades, have helped our biodiversity, thank you! The above opinion is from Bolivian Thoughts. Mongabay reports: Conservationists rush to save Bolivian turtles threatened by egg trafficking BY EDUARDO FRANCO BERTON ON 15…
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Three sectors contribute to the Beni economy
El Diario reports: Commerce, construction and industry Three sectors contribute to the Beni economy The Foundation for Business Development (Fundempresa) reported yesterday that from January to October, the Amazon department of Beni registered a 7% increase in the number of companies, compared to the same period of 2016. “The Beni department celebrates 175 years of…
Israeli: Film about Bolivian jungle ordeal will create tourism “tsunami”, El Bala dam must be stopped!
EFE reports via Latino Fox News: Israeli: Film about Bolivian jungle ordeal will create tourism “tsunami” RURRENABAQUE – An Israeli man who survived for 21 days in the Bolivian Amazon in 1981 said Friday he expected an upcoming film about his ordeal would create a tourist “tsunami” in that remote region. The movie, titled “Jungle”…
An Amazonian tribe is challenging scientific assumptions about our musical preferences
NewStatesman reports: An Amazonian tribe is challenging scientific assumptions about our musical preferences The Tsimane’ – a population of people in a rural village in Bolivia – are overturning scientists’ understanding of why humans prefer consonant sounds over dissonant ones. It was 29 May 1913. Hoards of Parisians packed out the newly-opened Théâtre des Champs-Élysées….
Amazon under pressure, will Bolivia do something about it?!
Miriam Telma Jemio writes for Pagina Siete: Amazon under pressure A group of researchers from nine countries conducted an unpublished work on the Amazon and the major threats that faces, which are reflected in the atlas: Amazon under pressure, which includes stunning photographs on the subject. In mapping language, the work presents a glance on the…
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