By El Dia: Tourism Contributes Only 5% to GDP, but Bolivia Holds 40% of the World’s Biodiversity as a Strategic Advantage These data were presented during the discussion titled “Tourism as an Alternative to Extractivism.” In Bolivia, the tourism sector represents 5% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to data from the Bolivian Observatory…
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A census à la “Plurinational State” | Un censo a la “Estado Plurinacional”
Agustin Echalar. Los Tiempos: Yesterday the national census took place, an important practice to know how many of us there are and where we live, something that should allow for a more adequate distribution of our resources to address the needs of the population, and which can also redistribute power, namely the presence in parliament…
Jorge Banegas Franco: Ranger from Bolivia among global award winners | Guardabosque de Bolivia entre ganadores de premios mundiales
At the IUCN Africa Protected Areas Congress, twelve rangers and ranger teams from around the world received an International Ranger Award today for their extraordinary commitment to protecting nature and helping local communities. Photo: @GABRIEL CHÁVEZ SEOANE Kigali, Rwanda, 20 July 2022 (IUCN).- Winners of the second International Ranger Awards, presented by the International Union for…
Let’s take care of our water | Cuidemos nuestra agua
María René Lievana Sandoval, Coordinadora de Comunicación, Fundación Gaia Pacha, Los Tiempos: BINOMIO. Unidos por el agua, Comunidad de Santa Ana, Beni. | Cortesía – BINOMIAL. United by water, Community of Santa Ana, Beni. | Courtesy Embassy of Sweden rewards three Bolivian teams for generating water projects Within the final event, each team presented their…
Laguna Colorada: Geothermal plant – Planta Geotérmica
Alexander Richter, Think Geoenergy: Bolivia to explore future of Laguna Colorada geothermal project build out Laguna Colorada construction update (source: video screenshot, Sacyr website) A new hiring process is to kick start for evaluation work on the build out of the Laguna Colorada geothermal project in Bolivia. Latin America’s leading energy news platform BN Americas…
Equipo boliviano triunfa en concurso internacional de biología sintética – Bolivian team triumphs in international synthetic biology contest
Pagina Siete: The project that the group, made up of more than 60 people, presented was a biosensor that detects arsenic in water (VIDEO). Bolivia won the gold medal in the international iGEM competition on synthetic biology. The project that the group of more than 60 people presented is related to a biosensor that detects…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 