One of the most important tourist attractions in Bolivia is at risk. The reason? Stubbornness and avarice of the Bolivian Highway Administration.
Tag: roads
Illegal roads threaten flora and fauna of Sierra del Divisor Reserved Zone
Trees up to one hundred years are being cut in the Sierra del Divisor Reserved Zone due to the lack of personnel to guard and also for the construction of two illegal ways, so yesterday denounced a television report
Detection of new roads (to cut forest?) in the Peruvian Amazon
Satellite images include the construction of almost 150 km of roads, possibly to extraction of illegal timber from protected areas in Peru.
Giant logs in the deforestation route inside the Acre State, in Brazil
Amazon gave way to pastures, skinny cattle and cane fields on the BR-317 road, which connects Rio Branco to the borders with Peru and Bolivia. Deforestation progresses.
El Tiempo: Is the lung of the world running out of air?
57 percent of the 120,933 hectares of forest that were deforested in Colombia in 2013 belong to the Amazon.
New map offers a solution to the ‘Pandora’s Box of environmental problems’
A new study found many areas where agriculture and livelihoods could be improved significantly with the addition of roads, while exacting a relatively small toll on the environment.
Amazon: new route would affect private conservation area in Bagua Grande Bosque Berlin
The problem of the “Cruce Chucmar-La Unión-Berlín” is that it has no approved environmental management tool and has not been based on previous communication with the owners of the properties that would be affected.
Roads through the rainforest: an overview of South America’s ‘arc of deforestation’
Roads, by their very nature, are indiscriminate pathways, granting access for travel and trade along with deforestation and other forms of environmental degradation.
Sol de Pando: Was launched bidding for a road amid Rurrenabaque
The Bolivian Highway Administration launched a new tender for the execution of a roadside work even vetoed by the IDB, which cuts the tourist town of Rurrenabaque in half.
RoadFree: It is necessary just one road to destroy a forest
95% of forest loss occurs within 50 km of a road. Roads fragment natural habitats, degrade forest ecosystems, and put local communities and wildlife at risk.