(June 27, 2019) The Municipal Government of Reyes has created a new protected area in northwestern Bolivia that will serve the needs of local communities while safeguarding rare wildlife such as titi monkeys, river dolphins, wattled curassows and other species, according to WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and the Rainforest Trust. Approved by the Reyes Municipal government on Tuesday, June 25th, the Rhukanrhuka Municipal protected area is 859,451 hectares in size (more than 3,318 square miles), almost as...

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(June 10, 2019) The Third Meeting organized by the Inter-Institutional Working Group on Responsible Gold in Bolivia (GTI-OR), held recently on May 16, closes a cycle of three workshops called 'Exchange of Information and Reflections on Relevant Aspects for Responsible Gold Mining. Oscar Loayza, Deputy Director of the Madidi-Tambopata Conservation Program of WCS and current director of the GTI-OR group, highlighted the importance of the work of this group, made up of 12 academic institutions and civil society, i...

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(June 03, 2019) La Paz joined 158 other cities around the world including Madrid, Buenos Aires, New York, Washington, San Francisco, Quito, Bogotá, Lima, London, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Los Angeles, in registering its biodiversity for the friendly competition ‘City Nature Challenge’, and was positioned in the top places for all three major categories: observations, species and participants. La Paz was runner-up in the number of observations category with 46,932 photographic records of pl...

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