Tag: encroachment
Environmental Impact of Chaqueo | Impacto ambiental de Chaqueo
Energy Portal: New Challenges in Bolivia: Exploring the Environmental Impact of Chaqueo By Howard Rhodes In the past year, wildfires have devastated almost 6.7 million acres of land in Bolivia, leaving a lasting impact on the country’s environment and its people. The fires, largely blamed on the agricultural practice of chaqueo, have brought to light…
Survey discloses violence and destruction by fire carried out by a masista group | Encuesta revela violencia y destrucción por fuego hecha por grupo masista
Brújula Digital, El Diario: According to survey Intercultural people are seen as responsible for fires Most people warn that the intercultural sector is responsible for the fires that affected a large part of the country intensely last week due to the smoke generated, according to a study by Diagnosis. The smoke caused by forest fires…
Who defends Bolivia? | ¿Quién defiende a Bolivia?
Editorial, El Deber: Several million inhabitants are literally suffocated by the smoke that invades the country. The fire spreads in five departments and Bolivia occupies second place with the highest number of heat sources, just as it is on the podium for poor quality air to breathe. It is the worst moment in history in…
Blazes and drought | Incendios y sequía
Editorial, Los Tiempos: In the last four years, forest fires devastated more than 18.6 million hectares. The good news is that so far in 2023 the fire has destroyed a smaller area than those devastated in the last four years (one million hectares versus 5.7 million in 2019). The bad news is that forest fires…
Deforestation by the hand of the masismo | Deforestación de la mano del masismo
El Deber: Deforestation: Data dismantles the regime’s discourse on Mother Earth By María René Álvarez, national deputy An investigation by the Friends of Nature Foundation (FAN) concludes that between 2011 and 2022, in Bolivia a loss of forest cover of 37% was reached. Deforestation, land clearing, encroachment, indiscriminate burning, felling of trees and wood trafficking…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 