El Diario reports: The illegal trade of fangs in most cases occurs through the internet. The fifth Criminal Investigation Judge of the city of La Paz, Juan Carlos Moltabán, ratified the three-year prison sentence against two Argentine citizens, convicted of trafficking jaguar tusks and cougars, the Environment Ministry reported. According to the government entity, the…
Tag: endangered species
Can jaguar tourism save Bolivia’s fast dwindling forests?
Mongabay has released a wonderful story about our biodiversity and wildlife peril … please use this link to read in full and admire those wonderful photos! https://news.mongabay.com/2019/03/can-jaguar-tourism-save-bolivias-fast-dwindling-forests/ Few countries in the tropics have seen trees chopped down as quickly as Bolivia did between 2001 and 2017. Within Bolivia, nearly two-thirds of that loss occurred in…
Our Fish
Michael Snyder and Felipe Luna write for Pulitzer Center: Fishermen use machetes to hack away the giant scales of the invasive paiche before skinning them and casting the refuse into the river. Growing up to three meters and 250 kilograms, the paiche (Arapaima gigas) is the largest scaled fish in the Amazon and one of…
Traffic destroys wildlife in Bolivia
El Diario reports: Animals abandoned to their fate • Chinese citizens promote the killing of species in the country, offering money to local people in exchange for jaguar tusks and other parts • Senator Yerko Núñez said that out of more than 100 complaints only two are sentenced and regretted for the little control exercised…
Bolivia creates a nature reserve for world’s rarest macaw
Luciana Pricop reports for Habitat: The blue-throated macaw is one of the most critically endangered species on the planet – only about 300 remain in the wild. However, the birds are getting some much-needed good news. Bolivian conservation organization Asociación Armonía has partnered with the American Bird Conservancy, the International Conservation Fund of Canada, IUCN Netherlands and the World Land Trust to create a protected…
China’s stupid desires endangers Bolivian biodiversity, WTH?! … “thanks” to a more stupid evo to bring them over!
Remember Midas? …. well, evo is just the opposite, everything he gets involved in, turns to s4!t! This blog is filled of the wrongdoing of the coca caudillo who has ruined Bolivia! The above is the opinion of Bolivian Thoughts. Jose Cardenas reports for Physorg: Bolivia’s jaguars facing threat from Chinese fang craze Bolivia’s once-thriving…
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