Pagina Siete reports: The equivalent of all Cochabamba has already been burned Two million hectares lost are forests. Photo: Soyelgas / Pagina Siete According to the most recent report of the Friends of Nature Foundation (FAN), the equivalent of the entire extension of Cochabamba or double of Belgium has already been consumed by fire. The…
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‘I could hear the fear in her voice’: Aussies’ nerve-racking job in Bolivian sanctuary
Michael Dahlstrom reports for Yahoo News Australia: A Melbourne woman is pleading for help as flames surround an animal sanctuary in Bolivia where five Australians are currently doing volunteer work. Milli Spence, 34, spoke to Yahoo News Australia as fire fighters continue to battle blazes at the 800 hectare Parque Ambue Ari, 400km north of…
Fires still being set in blazing Bolivia (commentary)
Claire Wordley comments in Mongabay: Firefighters in Bolivia are tackling conflagrations that have burned an area larger than Costa Rica. Several national parks and Indigenous territories have been affected. Many Indigenous and civil society groups are calling for an end to laws that allow burning. I spoke to ecologists and biologists about what is being…
‘Everything is burned’: Bolivian caravan marches across fire-ravaged region to pressure Morales
Santiago Limachi, David Mercado report for Reuters: CHIQUITANO FOREST, Bolivia (Reuters) – In Bolivia’s fire-ravaged lowlands, a caravan of indigenous protesters is marching hundreds of miles to demand President Evo Morales declare a surge in wildfires a national disaster, a move they hope will unleash international aid. People march during the 10th Indigenous March to defend…
Bolivian leader Evo Morales: Hero or villain?
The BL News: Bolivian leader Evo Morales: Hero or villain? President Evo Morales portrays himself as an environmental defender at the United Nations (UN) while Bolivia burns. The socialist leader does not hesitate to take the pressure off himself and blames the capitalist system for the fires that have devastated more than 4 million hectares…
More than 2 million animals perish in Bolivia wildfires
AFP – JI JI reports for The Japan Times: LA PAZ – More than 2 million wild animals, including jaguars, pumas and llamas, have perished in weeks of wildfires that devastated huge swaths of Bolivian forest and grassland, environmental experts said Wednesday. The fires devastated the Chiquitania tropical savanna in the east of the country. “We…
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