EFE reports via Pagina Siete: The protected area located in Oruro was established in 1939 and in the place you can enjoy hot springs, observe geysers or climb the highest peak. A view of the majestic Sajama National Park. Photos: EFE The Sajama National Park, the oldest protected area in Bolivia, has a great community…
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Food security comes to an end [evo continues to fail!!]
Editorial from El Diario, picture from the internet and this related link: The offered food security by the current government has ended in a thunderous failure, with no possibility of recovery, which seriously affects the health of the Bolivian people. The production of essential foods for family consumption has fallen abruptly, while the production of…
Can jaguar tourism save Bolivia’s fast dwindling forests?
Mongabay has released a wonderful story about our biodiversity and wildlife peril … please use this link to read in full and admire those wonderful photos! https://news.mongabay.com/2019/03/can-jaguar-tourism-save-bolivias-fast-dwindling-forests/ Few countries in the tropics have seen trees chopped down as quickly as Bolivia did between 2001 and 2017. Within Bolivia, nearly two-thirds of that loss occurred in…
Where unsustainable mining once reigned, ‘radical change’ beckons
Olivia Desmit for Human Nature, a blog from Conservation International: In Potosí, Bolivia, most families survive on less than US$ 2 per day. The local indigenous community in this Andean city is economically dependent on mining — an infamously grueling and hazardous way of life here — but a nearby mine, the country’s largest, will close in…
Bolivian river port offers landlocked nation alternative route to sea
UNCTAD reports: Port Jennefer – on the Paraguay-Paraná waterway – is helping Bolivian businesses cut trade costs with access to the Atlantic, says its UNCTAD-trained manager. The Bolivian government on 30 October awarded international classification to Central Aguirre, Gravetal and Jennefer three river ports on the Paraguay-Paraná waterway that connects the landlocked nation with…
Jhojan and Samuel qualify to the Robotics World competition
Pagina Siete reports: Jhojan Ramírez and Samuel Dorado, both 12 years old, are the youngest winners of the 2017 Bolivian Plurinational Student Olympiad (OCEPB) and will represent the country in the World Robot Olympiad (WRO) robotics competition, an event that brings together almost 20,000 teams of girls, boys and young people from more than 60…
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