By Vision 360: Annually, five new colonies are established in Bolivia The number of Mennonite colonies in the country has increased since 2015. They no longer only target the forests of Santa Cruz but are also expanding into less common areas for their settlement. Meeting at a Mennonite colony in Santa Cruz. Photo: Mayra Peñaloza…
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Agro giant Cargill tied to deforestation in Bolivia’s Chiquitano forest | El gigante agrícola Cargill está vinculado a la deforestación en el bosque chiquitano de Bolivia
Maxwell Radwin, Mongabay: by Maxwell Radwin on 11 September 2023 Global food giant Cargill has been tied to the destruction of thousands of hectares of dry tropical forest, which were cleared in eastern Bolivia to make room for soy production. The food distributor purchased soy from farms in the Santa Cruz department where more than 20,000 hectares…
Not like that Mennonites, not like that! – ¡Así no menonitas, así no!
Mongabay Latam – Ivan Alejandro Paredes, El Deber: Bolivia: indigenous territories cornered by the agricultural expansion of a Mennonite community The incursion of Mennonites is reaching an intangible indigenous territory, which is San Antonio de Lomerío, the first indigenous municipality in Bolivia. The Global Forest Watch platform has detected more than 42 thousand deforestation alerts…
Predatory Mennonites laugh at Bolivian laws – Menonitas depredadores, se ríen de leyes bolivianas
Editorial, El Deber: A clandestine and deforesting bridge An investigative report by journalist Roberto Navia discovered that, without government authorization or any environmental impact study, more than 200 Mennonite families built a 150-meter bridge over the Parapetí River, at a cost of approximately half a million dollars, in the middle of the forests of the…
The rapes haunting a community that shuns the 21st Century
Linda Pressly reports for BBC News: In Manitoba, an insular Mennonite colony in Bolivia whose residents eschew modernity, nine men were rounded up in 2009. Later, they were convicted of the rape and sexual assault of 151 women and girls – including small children – within this small Christian community. So why are Manitoba’s leaders…
Our Kaa-Iya National Park is in PERIL
I visited the Kaa-Iya (this article writes Caa Iya, but i changed it to Kaa-Iya as that was the way the Izoceno leaders taught me) at least three times and was always amazed with the ecosystem and the people, the Izocenos are friendly, proud individuals. Kaa-Iya is located in the Chaco region, which we share with Paraguay and Argentina; this beautiful park…
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