| The Amazon Basin sprawls across eight countries (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriame, and Venezuela) and one overseas department of France (French Guiana). In recent years, research and policy communities have developed a sound understanding of deforestation and degradation dynamics in the region and the ways economic actors exploit forest resources under different state regimes. |
Santa Cruz, May 2.– In Bolivia, prospectors are digging craters and poisoning rivers in Madidi National Park. This natural treasure stretches from the Andes to the Amazon. Intensive farming, meanwhile, is ravaging the country’s Amazon forests, including the Chiquitania, the largest dry forest in the world. Fires set, mostly to illegally clear land, often turn into runaway blazes that leave behind deserts of scorched earth.
Bolivia’s 60 million hectares of Amazon– which spans part of the departments of Pando, Beni, Cochabamba, La Paz, and Santa Cruz– boasts some of the basin’s most biodiverse wilderness. Bolivia’s Amazon is often forgotten, with other countries receiving the bulk of international attention. Yet, the country trails only Brazil in terms of annual forest loss.
In 2022, Bolivia lost a record 245,177 hectares of primary forest, the most ecologically significant forests on Earth for carbon storage — which accounted for 12.4% of the total deforestation across the Amazon that year. To put that in perspective, Colombia’s and Peru’s Amazon regions, which combined form a territory of some 127 million hectares, or just over double that of Bolivia, accounted for just 12.2%, according to the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP), a network dedicated to tracking deforestation in the Amazon.
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Aquí los gobernantes se debaten entre las ideologías y las protestas callejeras cada día más frecuentes…hay mucho descontento. La migración nos lleva los jóvenes mejor preparados porque no ven un futuro prometedor en su propio País. Los hondureños son un pueblo noble, sencillo y trabajador que no merece ser engañado y explotado de esta manera. Recen mucho por nosotros para que Dios envíe su Espíritu de Sabiduría sobre este pueblo y sus gobernantes y podamos emprender un proceso de CONVERSIÓN COLECTIVA que permita un diálogo sincero y productivo, entre pueblo y gobierno, que ayude a tomar las decisiones correctas para el bien, el progreso y la felicidad de todos. La ESPERANZA es lo último que se pierde. Recemos con mucha FE por Cuba, Honduras, Nicaragua y Venezuela. ¡Muchísimas gracias y bendiciones!

