El Deber: Deforestation: Data dismantles the regime’s discourse on Mother Earth By María René Álvarez, national deputy An investigation by the Friends of Nature Foundation (FAN) concludes that between 2011 and 2022, in Bolivia a loss of forest cover of 37% was reached. Deforestation, land clearing, encroachment, indiscriminate burning, felling of trees and wood trafficking…
Tag: uncontrolled fires
Arson – Incendios provocados
Editorial, Los Tiempos: Winter ends and hot spots, forest fires and grass fires multiply. This year, exceptionally, Santa Cruz is not the department most affected by the devastating fires that are now more numerous in Beni, Cochabamba and La Paz. The last official report yesterday on satellite monitoring of hot spots in the country, registered…
Santa Cruz goes up in the alarm scale for forest fires: the orange alert was activated | Santa Cruz sube en la escala de alarma por incendios forestales: se activó la alerta naranja
El Deber: Currently, 6 fires are reported distributed in the municipalities of: San José, San Antonio de Lomerío, Warnes and the metropolitan area The winds above 60 kilometers per hour that have been recorded since Thursday began to wreak havoc when the situation in August worsened, the month in which the alarms for forest fires…
La Amazonía boliviana está ardiendo | Bolivia’s Amazon is burning
Boston Globe: Una vez fue sumidero de gases de efecto invernadero, la selva tropical, convertida en tierras de cultivo por la agricultura de tala y quema, se está convirtiendo rápidamente en una fuente para ellos. Por Maja Prijatelj Videmšek y Matjaž Krivic Los bosques tropicales de Bolivia están siendo destruidos a un ritmo superado solo…
Peces que pueden sobrevivir fuera del agua encontrados en Bolivia | Fish that can survive out of water found in Bolivia
EFE, La Prensa Latina: Por Yolanda Salazar La Paz, 14 jul (EFE).- Una nueva especie de pez descubierta por el investigador boliviano Heinz Arno Drawert puede sobrevivir fuera del agua durante horas seguidas gracias a la capacidad de alterar su respiración. Drawert vio por primera vez la Moema juanderibaensis (su nombre científico) durante la década…
Fire in the Otuquis National Park requires air support for its extinction | Incendio en el Parque Nacional Otuquis requiere apoyo aéreo para su extinción
El Deber: It is estimated that some 4,000 hectares have been affected by the fire The fire that affects the Otuquis National Park decreased its intensity this Tuesday, July 11, after entering a humid area. Despite this improvement, the Santa Cruz Governor’s Office pointed out that land access to the area continues to be complicated….
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