By El Diario: The Andean cat, found in the wild in Bolivia, is at high risk of extinction in the Apolobamba National Integrated Management Natural Area, as gold mining, habitat fragmentation, and extensive llama and alpaca ranching—which encroach on wetlands and bodies of water vital to the small feline—could lead to its disappearance. In response…
Tag: illegal land take overs
Masista Gob is responsible for Bolivia’s economic crisis! | ¡Gobierno masista es responsable de la crisis económica de Bolivia!
By DANIEL ZENTENO, La Razon: CAO blames the Government for the country’s economic crisis The agricultural sector in Santa Cruz denounces that diesel lines still exist and that supply remains irregular in rural provinces and remote municipalities. CAO President Klaus Frerking at a press conference. Amid accusations by authorities against productive sectors such as cattle…
Madidi: Denouncement that interest in land and gold encourages usurpers to harass indigenous people | Denuncian que el interés por la tierra y el oro promueven que avasalladores acosen a indígenas
By Erbol: ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION The Bolivian Commission for the Defense of Protected Areas (COPDEAPBO) denounced that the long-standing interest in acquiring large tracts of land and the recent incursion of illegal gold mining in the Madidi National Park and Integrated Natural Management Area have led to the formation of groups of usurpers who seize land…
Twenty years filled with corruption and drug trafficking, unpunished! | Veinte años plagados de corrupción y narcotráfico, ¡impunes!
By El Diario: Congresswoman Toribia Lero Citizens must not forget 20 years of Morales and ‘masismo’ Congresswoman Toribia Lero (CC), while emphasizing that Evo Morales cannot escape his responsibilities with the justice system, stated that the population should not forget the nearly twenty years of MAS rule, during which corruption and drug trafficking levels increased….
Coca Gains Ground in Protected Areas | La coca gana terreno en áreas protegidas
Editorial, El Deber: The expansion of coca cultivation in Bolivia’s protected areas has reached alarming levels, according to the latest report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The increase in these territories between 2022 and 2023 was 34%, raising the cultivated area to 583 hectares within the country’s forests. At the…
Francisco Marupa: A crime against a tireless defender of indigenous territory and the environment | Un crimen contra un defensor incansable del territorio indígena y del medioambiente
By Los Tiempos: More Than 80 Institutions Demand Justice for Marupa’s Murder Accused of Marupa’s Death Sent to Prison | APG Eighty organizations, institutions, and civil society networks, both national and international, demanded yesterday the clarification of the murder of indigenous leader and defender Francisco Marupa. They called for legal sanctions against both the “material…
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