Mongabay: The protected area that isn’t: Bolivia’s Ñembi Guasu beset by fires, farms, roads by Rocío Lloret on 17 October 2022 | Translated by Sarah Engel This report is part of a journalistic collaboration between Mongabay Latam, La Región and Red Ambiental de Información. ROBORÉ, Bolivia—The Ñembi Guasu region is referred to as the “great refuge” by the Guaraní people of…
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Incendios forestales – Forest fires
El Día: Active forest fires in Bolivia decrease to nine Disminuyen a nueve los incendios forestales activos en Bolivia The Ministry of Defense, based on information from the National Incident Command, announced that active forest fires in Bolivia were reduced to nine. According to the details of the official report updated until the night of…
Error del gobierno – Government Failure
Silvana Vincenti, El Deber: 2019 Fire Scar Matches INRA Approved Settlements Until last year, the National Agrarian Reform Institute approved 1,455 new communities in the country, 945 in the Santa Cruz department. Most of them in Chiquitania Cicatriz de incendios de 2019 coincide con los asentamientos aprobados por el INRA Hasta el año pasado, el…
Bolivia declares a national emergency overwhelmed by forest fires
Bhavi Mandalia, Pledge Times: More than half a million hectares of forest are burning in Santa Cruz, a region in eastern Bolivia, at the gates of the Amazon, which faces two consecutive years of drought and high temperatures. The interim president, Jeanine Áñez, declared this Wednesday a “national emergency”, which will allow her to receive…
Depredation of tropical forests [worsened during evo’s atrocious gov]
Editorial from El Deber, photos from the internet: Depredation is devouring the tropical forests of Bolivia and the other countries that share the Amazon. According to a latest study presented by the Friends of Nature Foundation, the equivalent to the territory of Ecuador has already been lost; that is, 283,560 square kilometers, aggravating the environmental…
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