El Diario reports: Study warns of environmental risk The document indicates that the construction of the hydroelectric plant will cause a serious impact on the populations of the area, such as Rurrenabaque and San Buenaventura According to ENDE, the Bala project would guarantee energy sovereignty for our country. Meanwhile, Waldo Albarracín says the consultancy study…
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Fires destroy more than 4.2 million wild acres in Bolivia
Jessie Yeung reports for CNN: ‘All you can see is death.’ Aerial tour of Amazon fires reveals endless devastation 00:59 (CNN)It’s not just the Brazilian Amazon burning — fires in Bolivia have ravaged more than 1.7 million hectares (4.2 million acres) of land, according to Bolivian officials. That’s more than double the damage from just just two…
Damage to forests exceeds 1,140 million dollars
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…
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…
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