Pagina Siete: 20 species new to science found in the Zongo Valley Among the twenty finds are the Yope mountain viper, the Bolivian flag snake and the Liliputian frog. “It is a milestone for science,” according to experts. Hallan 20 especies nuevas para la ciencia en el valle de Zongo Entre la veintena de hallazgos…
Tag: environmental awareness
Bolivia: Climate change, inequality and resilience
[To read full text on both documents, click on every photo] Introduction In 2009, a team of Oxfam researchers travelled around Bolivia, collecting information about the country’s vulnerability to climate change and interviewing experts, government officials and NGOs, and most importantly, poor women and men, mostly from Indigenous communities, about their experiences of climate change…
Incendios forestales – Forest fires
El Diario: In study derogation of standards 19 active forest fires in Santa Cruz Of the fires registered until yesterday [9/13/2020], 2 are in Concepción, 8 in San Ignacio, 4 in San Matías, 1 in San Rafael, 1 in Cabezas, 1 in Vallegrande and 1 in San Antonio de Lomerío, the last being reported in…
Ecocidio – Bolivia – Ecocide
El Diario: Ruling of the Court of Nature State policy and agribusiness caused “ecocide” in Bolivia The TIDN establishes guarantees so that fires do not occur again, among them the abrogation of the norms that promote the expansion of the agrarian border and with it the burning and clearing. In Bolivia, 6.4 million hectares were…
‘Scrotum frog’ facing extinction without multinational effort to save it
Jeff Parsons reports for Metro: In a time when it seems like most species are under some form of threat, spare a thought for the scrotum frog of South America. Found in Lake Titicaca on the border between Bolivia and Peru, this slimy, wrinkled little amphibian is on the edge of being wiped out. Covered…
Reflections from Bolivia
Ryandall Lim writes for Straits Times: Up in the cloudless sky, a million stars twinkled. I had traipsed across South America and capped my 40-day adventure in Bolivia. 2020 was off to a great start and I could not wait for the rest of it. But towards the end of my trip in February, posts…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 