Global Voices: Reframing narratives about climate change in Bolivia’s Gran Chaco region Why local and diverse perspectives on climate change matter Written by Eduardo Avila Droughts, wildfires, flooding, and deforestation are just some of the environmental pressures plaguing Bolivia’s Gran Chaco region. Yet, according to those affected by these realities on the ground, international media…
Tag: Chuquisaca
Great Pukara and Pujllay is lived today in Tarabuco – Gran Pukara y Pujllay se vive hoy en Tarabuco
El Diario: Chuquisaca concludes its carnival activities with one of the largest cultural events in Bolivia. The Pujllay commemorates the battle of Cumbate on March 12, 1816, where the people of Tarabuco freed themselves from the Spanish yoke. [Watch the photo on the Spanish side] Tarabuco will live today [03/20/2022] the Great Pukara and Pujllay,…
Andean flicker (Colaptes rupicola) – Carpintero andino
Knowing our birds: The Andean Woodpecker Fig. 1. Yaca-yaca feeding on a beetle larva (Photo: M. Isabel Gómez). By: M. Isabel Gomez MNHN-Zoology Unit-Ornithology Section The species Colaptes rupicola, is a woodpecker that measures about 32 cm. The plumage of the mantle and the wings have a pattern of bars that help it to camouflage…
Equipo boliviano triunfa en concurso internacional de biología sintética – Bolivian team triumphs in international synthetic biology contest
Pagina Siete: The project that the group, made up of more than 60 people, presented was a biosensor that detects arsenic in water (VIDEO). Bolivia won the gold medal in the international iGEM competition on synthetic biology. The project that the group of more than 60 people presented is related to a biosensor that detects…
Los restos del general Marzana, héroe del Chaco, ya están a Sucre – The remains of General Marzana, hero of the Chaco, are already in Sucre
Pagina Siete: This Thursday the remains of the military will be buried in the General Cemetery of the capital, in the pavilion of the veterans of the Chaco War. The remains of General Manuel Marzana, the Chuquisaca hero of the Chaco War, arrived in the city of Sucre on Wednesday after their exhumation in the…
Agricultura familiar – Family farming
From the producers Family farming the reactivation proposal Meeting. The unity of the entire sector that is in the production chain, from production, transformation and marketing, was raised. De parte de los productores Agricultura familiar la propuesta de reactivación Reunión. Se planteó la unidad de todo el sector que está en la cadena productiva, desde…
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