El Diario reports: As estimated by the Chiquitania Foundation The devastating fire in the Chiquitana region, coupled with deforestation and fragmentation of natural ecosystems, affected more than 40 million trees with commercial value The observatory maintains that part of the forest production land favored livestock and agriculture that resorted to inadequate clearing and “slash-and-burn” practices…
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Devastating fires in Bolivia: A political tool
Carlos Guzman reports for Open Democracy: Uncontrolled fires linked to agricultural expansions are being used as a political tool during this election year in Bolivia and are causing catastrophic consequences. Español. 28 August 2019, Bolivia, Santa Rosa de Tucabaca: The Chiquitania forest on fire. | Photo: Gaston Brito/DPA/PA Images. All rights reserved. The fires in the lowlands of…
Bolivia’s forest fires, beef exports and video evidence of who started those fires!
Bolivian Thoughts opinion: Initially is interesting to see this “Dialogo Chino” site, Chinese are aggressively inserting in Latin America, it doesn’t matter how they kill our biodiversity, or how they treat local employees, they have the money and little by little are pushing their way in. Miriam Jemio reports for Dialogo Chino, cartoon from Pagina…
New Reserve Safeguards Vital Landscape in Bolivia
Madison Lemelin reports for Rainforest Trust: This week, Rainforest Trust and partner Wildlife Conservation Society-Bolivia (WCS-Bolivia) established the Rhukanrhuka Municipal Reserve. The 2,123,749-acre reserve in the Beni region protects grasslands found in the transition area between the Sub-Andean and Llanos de Mojos Ecosystems. The Beni grasslands, an area twice the size of Portugal, is South…
New protected area in Amazon announced
Bruno Vander Velde reports for Human Nature, a Conservation International blog; A sprawling corner of the Amazon basin has been designated a protected area. Last week, the Bolivian municipality of Ixiamas issued a law establishing the Bajo Madidi Municipal Conservation and Management Area in the country’s northwestern region, near the Peruvian border. At 15,300 square…
Bolivia: Down the Rio Yacuma
From The National Geographic: The caiman sized me up, all venomous reproach and pointy teeth. It sliced through the water until it was in snapping distance of our little boat. “Do they ever attack people?” I asked. “Oh yes,” said Sam, my local guide, who I liked but didn’t entirely trust. Friday, 31 May Bolivia…
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