Silvana Vincenti, El Deber: Historical data between 2017 and 2021 from the Special Force to Fight Drug Trafficking (Felcn) shows an increase in drug factories within protection zones, forest reserves and indigenous territories “Payroll: Calicha, Negro, Adam, Maira; 4,956 (Kg)”, says the notebook found in May of last year by agents of the Special Force…
Tag: National Parks
Forests for Sale: How Land Traffickers Profit by Slicing up Bolivia’s Protected Areas
by Eduardo Franco Berton Shortly after Bolivia’s Bajo Paraguá Municipal Protected Area was established in February 2021, authorities began receiving reports of invasions and deforestation in and around the new protected area. Local sources say land traffickers are illegally buying up plots of protected land to resell, often repeatedly, to third parties. Mongabay spoke with one…
In the Pantanal, Bolivia leads environmental preservation
The Newsroom: Concerned about the environmental impacts of paving the highway that crosses the region, residents of a town on the agricultural frontier pressured the city to create an integral conservation unit covering 37% of the municipality’s territory, including the most fertile land. Such a script is unlikely in Brazil, where agribusiness, contrary to the…
Contaminación del río Tuichi – Madidi – Contamination of the Tuichi River
Brujula Digital, Los Tiempos: WCS alerts contamination of the Tuichi River due to mining activity within the Madidi Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) through its deputy director of the Great Madidi Landscape Conservation Program and coordinator of the Interinstitutional Group for Responsible Gold (GIT-OR), Óscar Loayza, warns of the mining contamination of the Tuichi River, which…
Hectáreas quemadas – 2021 – Burned hectares
ANF, Los Tiempos: FAN quantifies the area burned by fires in 8 months at 1.5 million hectares The Friends of Nature Foundation (FAN) quantified in more than 1.5 million hectares the areas burned by the fires in the nine regions of the country, from January to August of this year. To perform the quantification, Sentinel-2…
Cultivos de coca aumentan en cuatro áreas protegidas – Coca cultivation increases in four protected areas
El Diario: United Nations Report From 315 hectares that there were in 2019, the amount grew to 454 until last year In the country there are 29,400 hectares of the leaf, that is, 7,400 more outside the 22,000 legal hectares European Union expresses its concern and current Government blames Añez government Four of the six…
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