Claire F.R. Wordley reports for The Conversation: Up to 800,000 hectares of the unique Chiquitano forest were burned to the ground in Bolivia between August 18 and August 23. That’s more forest than is usually destroyed across the country in two years. Experts say that it will take at least two centuries to repair the ecological damage done by…
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With forest wildfires raging, Bolivia seeks help from SuperTanker plane
UPDATE 9:30 Fri Aug 23, 2019: evo has a tv spot announcing he made this tanker possible, he is in permanent campaign, the illegitimate and impossible candidate, rejected in the Referendum of 2/21/2016. This photo shows the tanker while there is a a long line of trucks with water … and the plane arrived at…
500 species at risk due to fire in the Chiquitano Forest
AFP reports via El Deber: The flames have consumed more than 471,000 hectares in the department of Santa Cruz. Environmentalists warn of the serious risk to the variety of ecosystems that coexist in this natural reserve. Almost 500,000 hectares of the Chiquitano Forest were lost in the forest fire that still affects the reserve. Photo:…
Depredation of tropical forests [worsened during evo’s atrocious gov]
Editorial from El Deber, photos from the internet: Depredation is devouring the tropical forests of Bolivia and the other countries that share the Amazon. According to a latest study presented by the Friends of Nature Foundation, the equivalent to the territory of Ecuador has already been lost; that is, 283,560 square kilometers, aggravating the environmental…
Deforestation in Bolivia rose 167% according to NASA
El Diario reports: Environmental alarm The country is among the 10 most deforested in the world In 2010 the loss of the forest was 20 times more than the planetary average according to the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Foundation of Germany Data from scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA of…
Bolivia flunks big time! Fires: 3,366 hot spots were detected
Valeria Endara reports for El Dia: Only in this month Report. Only between Saturday and Sunday were detected 676 red dots. The municipality of San José is the most affected. Due to the fires that are registered in the department, a slight smoke reached the capital of Santa Cruz. According to the Report of the…
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