Tribunal warns about the negative effects of Polygon 7 for the TIPNIS

Los Tiempos reports: The former president of the Constituent Assembly of Ecuador and current member of the Court of Defense of the Rights of Nature, Alberto Acosta, warned from Quito that the Polygon 7, inhabited by colonizing peasants, constitutes a worrisome threat for the indigenous people and for the conservation of the Indigenous Territory and…

Juliet and friends found for Romeo the lonely water frog

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…

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…