Bolivian Thoughts opinion: Initially is interesting to see this “Dialogo Chino” site, Chinese are aggressively inserting in Latin America, it doesn’t matter how they kill our biodiversity, or how they treat local employees, they have the money and little by little are pushing their way in. Miriam Jemio reports for Dialogo Chino, cartoon from Pagina…
Tag: environmental damage
Bolivia’s fires destroy ‘heritage’ rock art sites
AFP reports for France 24: Wildfires that have raged across forests and grassland in eastern Bolivia for weeks have destroyed rare rock art sites, archeologists announced Tuesday. “We believe that the damage is big and wide in terms of our heritage of rock art,” said Danilo Drakic, chief archeologist in the eastern Santa Cruz department….
Bolivian Bishops Express Concern about Amazon Fires
Mario Schiavone reports for NewsBook: The Bolivian Episcopal Conference considering the Amazon disaster With the evocative title “Our common home is on fire” the Bolivian Amazon Church has issued a statement that highlights concern and clamor for the catastrophe of fires and the consequences of this ongoing ecological disaster, Fides News Agency reported. The Bishops’…
From the frontlines: Fighting Bolivia’s forest fires
Monica Evans reports for Forests News, CIFOR: A firefighter’s account of the country’s burning dry forests Between 22 and 27 August 2019, estimates say forest fires caused largely by land-clearing for agriculture in Bolivia doubled. Photo: Romaneth Hidalgo Bolivia – When firefighter Daniela Azero and her team first saw the extent of the uncontrolled forest fires…
Indigenous: Government only takes care of its image
El Diario reports: It does not declare a national disaster On Wednesday 4 of this month they will evaluate the trial of responsibilities against President Evo Morales for “ecocide”, “ethnocide” and “biocide” The forest fire recorded in the Chiquitania region, which exceeds 1,100,000 hectares of forest, caused irreparable losses to nature. The Government did not…
‘Murderer of nature’: Evo Morales blamed as Bolivia battles devastating fires
Dan Collyns reports for The Guardian: Furious locals say president is culpable over unprecedented destruction of wildlife Firefighters try to control a fire near Charagua, close to the border with Paraguay. Photograph: Aizar Raldes/AFP/Getty Images Runy Callaú can’t remember how many nights he has been fighting the blaze which has engulfed huge swathes of forest….
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