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The event in Bolivia
Last February 2020, Action for Bolivia's team landed in Santa Cruz, Bolivia to make their official presentation of the environmental organisation and activist platform. In 2019, Action for Bolivia obtained enough international coverage in media such as Channel 4, BBC,...
Bolivia president feels election heat amid anger over wildfires
Heavy rains have all but extinguished the devastating wildfires that tore through the dry forests of eastern Bolivia for nearly two months. But, with national elections approaching, recriminations over the blazes have ratcheted up tensions in the already politically...
1.5 Million Bolivians Gather to Protest in ‘Cabildo’ at Santa Cruz
Written by Diego Martinez-Schütt On Friday 4th October, over 1.5 million Bolivian people formed a mass gathering at Santa Cruz to protest over the central government's handling of the fires in Bolivia. More than 5,3 million hectares of Amazonian and Chiquitano forests...
Bolivian Amazon Action Pack Fundraiser
Our new campaign; Bolivian Amazon Action Pack is live and accepting donations! Please click on the read more button to navigate to the GoFundMePage. https://www.gofundme.com/f/action-for-bolivia
Fires still being set in blazing Bolivia
Firefighters in Bolivia are tackling conflagrations that have burned an area larger than Costa Rica. Several national parks and Indigenous territories have been affected....
La sabiduría indígena que puede frenar los incendios en Bolivia
La ecoregión del bosque chiquitano representa una mezcla de ecosistemas en la transición de la parte seca del Gran Chaco a la humedad de la selva amazónica. Considerado el último bosque seco tropical del mundo, cubre un área equivalente al territorio de Uruguay que se...
Firefighters in Bolivia lose hope of taming blazes as burned area doubles
Bolivian volunteer firefighters, exhausted from battling blazes sweeping rapidly across the country's lowlands, are starting to lose hope and retreat from the front lines of some infernos in the drought-stricken region....
As 12 million hectares burn in the Amazon, Bolivia receives EU support to tackle wildfires
The Amazon is on fire, and not only in Brazil. Since July, Bolivia has lost two million hectares of forest, pushing its government to call on the EU to step in....
Protestas contra el cambio climático: las movilizaciones por todo el mundo en fotos
Decenas de miles de personas, muchas de ellas estudiantes, encabezan marchas en todo el mundo para exigir acciones concretas de gobiernos y corporaciones para enfrentar la crisis climática. https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-49768853
Amazon fires show Bolivia needs a new economic model
Global coverage of the recent Amazon fires has focused on Brazil, but Bolivia has suffered a similar catastrophe. Over the last two months, some 2.4 million hectares of the country have burned, almost half of which is forest. At least six people have died and around...