El Diario reports: Prosecutor would not open case for illegal sale of vicuña fiber The Environmental Forestry Police (Pofoma) denounced that the Prosecutor’s Office did not want to receive the report for the illegal sale of vicuña fiber, a species in danger of extinction. “When we detained this person (Elena M) and we sent…
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Bolivia’s lonely frog: Scientists race to find mate for Romeo
BBC News reports: Bolivia’s lonely frog: Scientists race to find mate for Romeo Conservationists in Bolivia are scouring the country to find a mate for a childless frog who they fear may be the last of his species. Romeo, a 10-year-old Sehuencas water frog, has been calling in vain for a mate for the past…
Rescuing anaconda of more than three meters in Trinidad
El Deber reports: Rescuing anaconda of more than three meters in Trinidad The snake was found in a neighborhood of that city. People wanted to kill it and officials managed to rescue her. The official responsible for the project to support wildlife conservation of the Beni Governorate, Marco Antonio Greminger, reported on Thursday that the…
Bolivian Biologist Works For Peaceful Co-Existence Between Humans And Bears
The Science Times report: Bolivian Biologist Works For Peaceful Co-Existence Between Humans And Bears by R. Siva Kumar One Bolivian biologist has an interesting task to promote harmony and co-existence between humans and spectacled or Andean bears, in Bolivia. It was Ximena Velez-Liendo, the Bolivian biologist, who spearheaded the “Conservation through Co-existence: Andean Bears and…
Deadly pathogen threatens giant frog in Titicaca
El Diario reports: Deadly pathogen threatens giant frog in Titicaca The giant frog of Lake Titicaca is infected by an invasive pathogen, the fungus chytrid, which has spread among amphibians of different ecosystems of the world, causing them a deadly disease in their skin that causes a decreasing population. According to the portal CienciaBolivia, scientists…
Lets save the Bolivian river dolphin: the bufeo
A Sub Editorial from Los Tiempos: Save the bufeo It has been reported that in the last two years, about two hundred of Bolivian river dolphins in Iténez-Mamore rivers have been killed, where these endemic mammals inhabit, to be used as fishing bait for tilefish fish, which is much sought on the market. [photos…
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