Livestock and agricultural activity in neighboring Brazil, illegal fishing and fires threaten the protected area.
Tag: bolivia
Portal do Meio Ambiente: Hydroelectric dams underestimated hydrography and climate change
Reports and documents produced by Brazilian and Bolivian experts, warned of the impacts that both hydroelectric power would produce.
FAN: Communities produce wild cocoa in the Bolivian Amazon
The Association of Producers and Collectors of Cocoa in Baures, Bolivia, in 2012 produced nearly 1715 tons of wild cacao.
De Olho no Tempo: Brazilian media ignores climate tragedy in Bolivia
Brazilian media prefers to show minimized effects that residents of Acre and Rondônia are living, to encompass on their agendas the possible guilt of a government that has had years of environmental study for with current reality.
Fobomade: Negotiating the flood?? Jirau dam in the waterfall of hell
Consortium won the tender Jirau dam offering lower energy price, but few days later announced that it would change the project site, with which it obtained the environmental license without specific studies.
El Deber: Brazil comes to justice by dams and Bolivia is waiting
Public Ministry and Rondonia lawyers submitted a legal action against Jirau and San Antonio. They are accused of causing flooding. In Bolivia notes that no supervision.
Amazônia Blog: “Dams could result in catastrophy” says researcher
Federal University of Rondônia researcher warns that hydroelectric plants of Santo Antônio and Jirau on the Madeira River could produce catastrophic results in Rondônia and Bolivia.
El Deber: Brazil will analyze whether their dams caused flooding in Bolivia
Brazilian Commission will come to Bolivia to make a study oriented to verify whether the flooding in the country were caused by their dams
Los Tiempos: Foreign Office study defines impact of dams in Bolivia
Study elaborated in 2013 is a monitoring system that identifies which areas are impacted, both in the short and medium term.
Los Tiempos: Bolivia known effects of Brazilian dams
More than six years since the Government already knew that Brazilian dams built on the Madeira River basin would cause major flooding in the country.