Firefighters, troops and volunteers have been working for the past two months to put out some of the worst blazes in the country's recent history. Bolivia Is Fighting Major Forest Fires Nearly As ...
“We fight to defend the Madre Tierra (Mother Earth),” said El Chopo, the community commander fighting the drone war to ...
After losing some 700,000 hectares (around 1.4 million acres) of forest in less than a month, Bolivian population felt some relief on Friday as the Super tanker plane, a fire fighting B747-400 rented ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: At least 16 major fires in the department of Santa Cruz and another four in the department of Beni grew on Wednesday, ...
Not all animals can escape when fire comes burning through the forest. In Bolivia, millions of animals are likely dead as a result of the raging forest fires that continue to burn across the region, ...
MONTEVIDEO, June 28 (Reuters) - 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 ...
Six volunteer firefighters use machetes to cut a path through the vines and underbrush of the Chiquitano forest in Bolivia's eastern lowlands. They're approaching the leading edge of a fire that's ...