Fires, some of which are linked to land clearances, have played a significant role in recent years' forest loss, as indicated by the Global Forest Watch report. Additionally, urbanization, road infrastructure, and mining activities are lesser-known drivers of deforestation.
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Forest loss in Bolivia accelerated by about a third last year with clearances in the country trailing only giant neighbor Brazil and the Democratic Republic of Congo, a forest monitoring project report shows, blaming farm expansion and fires.
Mennonites, often searching for new land to expand their simple, rural lifestyles, have founded hundreds of communities across Latin America over the last century. In forested areas, particularly the Amazon, that’s become a problem when the communities clear trees to make room for agriculture sometimes thousands of acres at a time. Bolivia has felt […]
In Ecuador, families wait with their dead as bodies pile up
By CHRISTINE ARMARIO and GONZALO SOLANOApril 2, 2020 GMT
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) Daniel Larrea died Monday after a week of high fever, struggling to breathe and steadily turning blue. Then a new nightmare began for his family. No one in their city on Ecuador’s Pacific coast would pick up his body.
“We wrapped him up in black plastic,” Larrea’s wife, Karina, said Wednesday. “He’s here in the living room.”
Hospitals are turning away patients and bodies are being left on streets and in homes for days in Guayaquil, a normally bustling city of 2.6 million that has become a hot spot in Latin America as the coronavirus pandemic spreads.