Tag: wildfires

• Thursday, September 26th 2019 - 08:46 UTC

  Precious fauna perished in weeks of wildfires in Bolivian forest and grassland

  

  More than two million wild animals, including jaguars, pumas and llamas, have perished in weeks of wildfires that devastated huge swathes of Bolivian forest and grassland, environmental experts said on Wednesday. The fires devastated the Chiquitania tropical savanna in the east of the country.

• Tuesday, September 10th 2019 - 09:52 UTC

  Bolivia's Morales alliance with large farming interests (and Amazon deforestation) could cost him his re-re-reelection

  

  In the tropical Bolivian city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, a wealthy farming hub on the edge on the Amazon rainforest, President Evo Morales gathered with ranchers late last month to celebrate a maiden shipment of beef to China.