Land-use maps and their explicit recommendations are most relevant on pioneer landscapes that are in the flux of change. Recommendations can provide sound information and support an expanding agricultural production system; more often, however, they are ignored in a frenzy of land speculation. This is, unfortunately, the case in Bolivia, Peru and Colombia. Bolivia One […]
In the Andean country, forest loss has spread in parallel with the increase in beef exports. Some ranchers are now turning to practices that protect forests and long-term productivity
Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia all invested in major highway building initiatives in the last half of the twentieth century, motivated in part to project sovereignty over their Amazonian provinces. These areas had poorly defined borders and societies remembered the trauma of the rubber boom, when Brazilian agents encroached upon their territories or when they […]
By Gina Baldivieso Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Feb 21 (EFE).- A recently discovered giant water lily species has grown for just over two decades in a small chunk of eco-paradise in eastern Bolivia created by landscape designer Gaston “Tonchi” Ribero. Although horticulturists there and elsewhere were long unaware of the new species, known as Victoria boliviana, …