Editorial, Página Siete: Cerro Rico: from apogee to debacle Paradoxes or open contradictions surround the attempt to save Cerro Rico de Potosí from disaster. Its sinking is clearly notorious, although warnings about it have long been established. In a period of 15 years, the gap in the very top of the hill has grown and…
Tag: environmental damage
Liberan a osa hormiguera que fue rescatada de los incendios en Roboré – They release an anteater that was rescued from the fires in Roboré
Miguel Angel Roca, El Deber: (WATCH THE VIDEO) The anteater was found by the brigades that work in the liquidation of the fire, with serious signs of dehydration and stress On the morning of this Thursday, an anteater was returned to its natural habitat that was rescued when it tried to escape the forest fire…
Cultivos de coca aumentan en cuatro áreas protegidas – Coca cultivation increases in four protected areas
El Diario: United Nations Report From 315 hectares that there were in 2019, the amount grew to 454 until last year In the country there are 29,400 hectares of the leaf, that is, 7,400 more outside the 22,000 legal hectares European Union expresses its concern and current Government blames Añez government Four of the six…
Indigenous people question misuse of prior consultation for Chepete and El Bala projects – Indígenas cuestionan mal uso de consulta previa para proyectos Chepete y El Bala
Silvana Vincenti, El Deber: The Commonwealth of Indigenous Communities of the Beni, Tuichi and Quiquibey Rivers issued a statement on these hydroelectric plants, which have already been rejected, and which they believe will cut off their rivers The Commonwealth of Indigenous Communities of the Beni, Tuichi and Quiquibey Rivers, an organization that was created in…
Fires rage in Bolivia’s Chiquitania region
Ivan Paredes, Mongabay: Authorities are battling an outbreak of wildfires in eastern Bolivia’s Chiquitania region. Satellite data show fires have intensified over the past two weeks and are invading protected areas. The fires are destroying habitat spared by Bolivia’s extreme fire season of 2019. Wildfires in Bolivia are often associated with burning for agriculture, and…
Wildfires devastate Bolivian nature reserves
Phys.org: Wildfires, mostly started intentionally, have scorched almost 600,000 hectares of land in eastern Bolivia already this year, authorities said. On Monday night there were 20 active fires in Santa Cruz state affecting seven protected areas. The government said 200,000 hectares (495,000 acres) had burned in just two days. Most of the fires are in…
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