Los osos andinos en el bosque seco de Tarija. | Cortesía Los osos andinos en el bosque seco de Tarija. | Cortesía Geraldine Corrales Arandia, Los Tiempos: Wines and honey to support the conservation of the Andean bear Jukumari bear conservation is a job that requires a lot of support across the country. The program…
Tag: endangered species
NO a la represa/No to the dam: Chepete-El Bala
ANF, El Diario: Defense Committee rejects the Chepete-El Bala project Through a public statement, the Committee for the Defense of Amazonian life in the Madera River Basin rejected the implementation of the Chepete-El Bala hydroelectric project as an ecocidal threat, that is, of destruction of nature. Denounced that the government of Luis Arce Catacora intends…
Indigenous groups call for gov’t intervention as land grabbers invade Bolivian protected area
Iván Paredes Tamayo on 12 November 2021 | Translated by Sarah Engel, Mongabay: Bajo Paraguá – San Ignacio de Velasco Municipal Protected Area was created on February 12, 2021, to protect 983,000 hectares (about 2,429,045 acres) of primary forest in the Chiquitania region of Bolivia. But despite its new protected status, residents are reporting invasions and human…
Sapo Arlequín – Atelopus Tricolor
EFE, Los Tiempos: Experts preserve the Atelopus Tricolor, found in Bolivia after 17 years Several organizations joined in a project to protect the Tricolor Harlequin toad or Atelopus tricolor that was thought to be extinct in Bolivia, but after 17 years they found two individuals of this species. This small toad, which is characteristic for…
Fires rage in Bolivia’s Chiquitania region
Ivan Paredes, Mongabay: Authorities are battling an outbreak of wildfires in eastern Bolivia’s Chiquitania region. Satellite data show fires have intensified over the past two weeks and are invading protected areas. The fires are destroying habitat spared by Bolivia’s extreme fire season of 2019. Wildfires in Bolivia are often associated with burning for agriculture, and…
Illegal forest clearing and mining concessions – Desmontes y concesiones mineras ilegales
ANF, Los Tiempos: Protected areas face clearing and mining concessions, park rangers denounce Protected Areas face serious problems of clearing plans and “invasion” of mining concessions, with scarce economic resources, without sufficient personnel and with a general director of the National Service of Protected Areas (Sernap) who has no commitment to these areas, but with…
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