Tag: Santa Cruz

Smoke in the most beautiful and pure sky of the Americas

Unfortunately, retrograde slush and burn practices continue to damage our clean air. Thousands of hectares are lost to uncontrolled fires that delinquents provoke in Santa Cruz. El Chore is a forestry reserve, the lungs of beautiful Santa Cruz de la Sierra, this reserve is 160 kilometers away from the city; agricultural settlers and campesinos inside…

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Bolivian briefs: mining; fires; fexpocruz; Potosi demands

Mining: Bolivia lost the opportunity to produce more when international prices for tin, silver, zinc et al were high. As Pagina Siete reports by comparing the first semester of 2011 with 2010. http://www.paginasiete.bo/2011-09-27/Economia/NoticiaPrincipal/12Pla00127-09-11-P720110927MAR.aspx Uncontrolled fires: Two new fire sources add to the uncontrolled fire that has been burning for the last 15 days in the Sararenda mountain….

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