Shannon Biggs and Nick Buxton report for The Ecologist: Bolivia’s first indigenous president set out a bold and inspiring vision to save the planet from climate and environmental breakdown just over ten years ago. In an open letter, Evo Morales said “Mother Earth is ill.” He urged the industrialised countries to drastically reduce emissions, increase technology…
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Bolivia: Nature rights tribunal condemns TIPNIS project
Bolivian Thoughts opinion: evo’s acolytes have been disregarding this ruling … the production of coca leaves is far more interesting to them ,,, and of course for narcotrafficking … I would be extremely surprised to see evo back tracking to his relentless desire to cut in half the TIPNIS … he is pushing an illegitimate…
International Court will issue ruling on Tipnis complaint
El Diario reports: It will be on May 15 The process in the middle of the construction of the road that runs through the heart of the Isiboro Sécure reserve began in 2017 when the indigenous people denounced the violation of their rights in Germany. In 2018, a commission visited the region and verified the…
Traffic of the red forehead macaw propitiates workshop and the proposal of harder penalties
Berthy Vaca reports for El Deber: The meeting to talk about the traffic of species, taking as a flag the jaguar, will be on July 24 and 25 in Santa Cruz. For conservationists, the villagers of the communities must become protectors of the threatened fauna In the Santa Cruz Kempff Mercado zoo, they live no…
Depredation of tropical forests [worsened during evo’s atrocious gov]
Editorial from El Deber, photos from the internet: Depredation is devouring the tropical forests of Bolivia and the other countries that share the Amazon. According to a latest study presented by the Friends of Nature Foundation, the equivalent to the territory of Ecuador has already been lost; that is, 283,560 square kilometers, aggravating the environmental…
Drying Peatlands in the Bolivian Andes Threaten Indigenous Pastoral Communities
Maria Dombrov reports for Glacier Hub: The Andes are the longest mountain range in the world, stretching 4,500 miles long and spanning seven South American countries: Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. Andean ecosystems include peatlands, grasslands, shrublands, salt flats, forests, and alpine regions. Mountain peatlands, or bofedales, play a particularly central role in the rearing…
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