TRT World: The wildfires have affected more than 600 families but no fatalities have been reported so far. Bolivia has declared a state of disaster after wildfires ravaged forested and agricultural areas in the eastern part of the country. In 2019, wildfires destroyed more than 6 million hectares in the Bolivian Amazon. So far this…
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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…
Incendios forestales – Forest fires
El Diario: In study derogation of standards 19 active forest fires in Santa Cruz Of the fires registered until yesterday [9/13/2020], 2 are in Concepción, 8 in San Ignacio, 4 in San Matías, 1 in San Rafael, 1 in Cabezas, 1 in Vallegrande and 1 in San Antonio de Lomerío, the last being reported in…
Ecocidio – Bolivia – Ecocide
El Diario: Ruling of the Court of Nature State policy and agribusiness caused “ecocide” in Bolivia The TIDN establishes guarantees so that fires do not occur again, among them the abrogation of the norms that promote the expansion of the agrarian border and with it the burning and clearing. In Bolivia, 6.4 million hectares were…
Fire spreads in Parque Otuquis – Incendio se extiende en Parque Otuquis
El Diario reports: Fire spreads in Parque Otuquis The Otuquis National Park and Natural Area for Integrated Management, in Santa Cruz, in four days of fire in the south registered 685 heat sources. This past Saturday, July 25 alone, 152 outbreaks persisted, while in the early hours of yesterday the outbreaks were 11. According to…
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