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Inflation-stricken Venezuela rolls out new, larger-denomination banknotes
The assistant of a bus driver holds banknotes of 200,000 bolivars, worth just 10 U.S. cents at the current exchange rate, in Caracas
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela this week is rolling out larger-denomination banknotes as hyperinflation batters the crisis-stricken South American country’s bolivar currency.
Bills worth 200,000 and 500,000 bolivars – worth just 10 and 27 U.S. cents, respectively, at the current exchange rate – began to circulate on Monday, according to Reuters witnesses. Venezuela’s central bank said this month it also planned to roll a bill worth 1 million bolivars, just 50 U.S. cents.
The highest-denomination bill had previously been 50,000 bolivars. Annual inflation in the once-prosperous OPEC nation was running at 2,665% in January, contributing to chronic shortages of cash.
Dying of curiosity: Why people shoot harpy eagles
by Claire Wordley on 16 March 2021
A recent study in the Journal of Raptor Research collected records of harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja) persecution across Central and South America.
They found 132 documented cases of people killing the birds in 11 of the 18 countries in the species’ range.
Researchers say that curiosity and a desire to see the birds up close is a major reason that people shoot the birds, followed by fears that they may threaten livestock, hunting of the eagles for meat, and capturing them for the illegal wildlife trade.
Conservationists have established programs trying to protect the birds in several countries across the harpy’s range, but these projects often suffer from a lack of funds.