Damian Carrington reports for The Guardian: Five frogs found on Bolivian expedition funded through lonely hearts profile For 10 years, Romeo, the last known Sehuencas water frog on the planet, led a solitary life in a conservation centre in Bolivia. Now scientists have found him a Juliet. The adult female was among five frogs found on…
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Senamhi declared hydrological alert
El Diario reports: Rains Due to the last rains that are registered in great part of the country, the National Service of Meteorology and Hydrology (Senamhi) launched a hydrological alert of red level by the probability of floods of several rivers that would affect regions of the east, the south of the country and the…
Deforestation in Bolivia rose 167% according to NASA
El Diario reports: Environmental alarm The country is among the 10 most deforested in the world In 2010 the loss of the forest was 20 times more than the planetary average according to the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Foundation of Germany Data from scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA of…
China aspires to world leadership … failing big time with this atrocious and barbaric “preferences”
El Diario reports: Environmental activists Conviction for killing jaguars is insufficient Chinese citizens who sold skins and fangs of jaguars from Bolivia were sentenced to four and three years in prison. The sentence of four and three years of imprisonment for the couple of Chinese citizens, traffickers of jaguar fangs and other pieces of wild…
Foresters fear the suffocation of the sector because of the second Christmas bonus
Alvaro Rosales reports for El Deber: ECONOMY In the last 6 years more than 3000 production units have been closed between micro, small, medium and large, more than 25,000 workers have been fired, they fear that the situation will worsen The forestry industry works within the framework of sustainability and its actors see a gray…
A journey into the Amazon Jaguar black market
From The Brazilian Report, excerpts pertaining Bolivia follow: By Eduardo Franco Berton: At first glance, Li Ming and his wife Yin Lan look like two ordinary Chinese citizens. Sat on a bench, they greet the relatives who have come to visit them with warm, kind smiles. It’s lunchtime. One of the visitors approaches…
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