Eco Delivery

EFE: Un servicio de mensajería ecológica en el corazón de Bolivia Bicicletas convencionales, algunas eléctricas y otras modificadas para llevar cargas un tanto más pesadas son las principales aliadas de un grupo de jóvenes emprendedores que son parte de Eco Delivery, el servicio de mensajería ecológica que pedalea contra la contaminación atmosférica en el corazón…

Campaign seeks to raise awareness about the importance of birds and their habitats in Bolivia – Campaña busca concienciar sobre la importancia de las aves y sus hábitats en Bolivia

Hadiye Arriaza, Los Tiempos: This weekend the campaign “Sing, fly, fly like a bird!” Will be carried out, organized mainly by the Bolivian Platform for Action against Climate Change and the Ornithological Club of Cochabamba, through the use of birds as environmental health indicators. From this Friday, April 30 to May 2, different activities will…

Site work kicked off for Laguna Colorada project, Bolivia

Alexander Richter, Think Geoenergy: Site preparation for the construction of a 5 MW geothermal pilot plant has kicked off for the Laguna Colorada geothermal project in the Andes of Bolivia. In a note on LinkedIn, a Project Director for Spanish Sacyr announces that preparation work has started on the pilot plant for the Laguna Colorada…

Bolivian lake becomes an arid, trash-covered wasteland

Gabriel Romano, La Prensa Latina: Oruro, Bolivia, Apr 1 (efe-epa).- Gazing at Lake Uru Uru in the southwestern Bolivian province of Oruro, the thought occurs that no amount of effort would be sufficient to reverse the environmental degradation which has left 90 percent of the lake bed a dried-up waste piled high with plastic and…

2 condors released into Bolivian wild as probe held into mass poisoning

La Prensa Latina: Choquekota, Bolivia, Feb 23 (efe-epa).- Two female condors rescued in a rural Bolivian community were returned to their natural habitat on Tuesday after undergoing a rehabilitation process in the municipal biopark of La Paz and as an investigation is underway in the south of the country into the death of around 30…

How an Indigenous People in Bolivia’s Amazon Survived COVID-19

Pulitzer Center: When the coronavirus arrived in the spring, Yuqui fisherman Salomon Quispe was frightened. His wife had tuberculosis a few years before and was still in poor health. At 52 years old, Salomon Quispe himself was no longer as young as he once was, and he, too, felt at risk. Quispe also worried that…