Cristina Cotari, Los Tiempos: Las familias que llegaron al Tunari para disfrutar y jugar con la nieve. The families that came to Tunari to enjoy and play in the snow.| Carlos López Las bajas temperaturas realzan una laguna y el paisaje. Low temperatures enhance a lagoon and the landscape. | Carlos López Las familias que…
Tag: environmental awareness
The jucumari bear: the gardener of the forest is in danger in Bolivia – El oso jucumari: el jardinero del bosque está en peligro en Bolivia
Adhemar Manjon, El Deber: It is the only species of South American bear that lives along the Andes and in Bolivia it is found from La Paz to Tarija. Fires, hunting and deforestation are killing it. Within the ecosystem it has a vital role [watch photo on the Spanish side] In September of last year,…
Illegal hunting leaves two orphaned bears – Caza ilegal deja dos ositos huérfanos
Julio Rojas, Los Tiempos: The story of Thaki and Chojñita, two orphaned bears who live in Senda Verde Chojñita, the rescued jukumari bear who now lives in Senda Verde. | Green Path Thaki, the bear cub who was orphaned at three weeks of birth. | Green Path Two dead jukumari bears and two orphaned cubs…
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Fabien Lemercier, CineEuropa [Video: use link below/use el link al final]: In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. During an uncommonly long drought, Virginio and his wife Sisa face a dilemma: resist, or be defeated by the environment and time itself. “If you knew how…
Jukumari – Spectacled bear
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…
In the Pantanal, Bolivia leads environmental preservation
The Newsroom: Concerned about the environmental impacts of paving the highway that crosses the region, residents of a town on the agricultural frontier pressured the city to create an integral conservation unit covering 37% of the municipality’s territory, including the most fertile land. Such a script is unlikely in Brazil, where agribusiness, contrary to the…
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