LIDEMA study identifies impacts, threats of environment on Bolivian borders

A study of the League of Environmental Defense (LIDEMA) identifies a number of impacts and threats to the environment and biodiversity Bolivian border areas and even in protected areas of immense value. The greatest threat area is the border with Brazil, due to the construction of megaprojects, intensive farming and agribusiness, to poaching and deforestation accelerated.

The study, “Impacts and transboundary threats”, inserted in the book First approach to an inventory of threatened eco-regional units in Bolivia, the biologist and researcher Marco Octavio Ribera reveals the current situation of the Bolivian border, and especially more than 1,500 kilometers of the border is shared with Brazil, “where there has been a discontinuity of ecosystems by large-scale desbosques the neighboring country.”

Bolivia has a border with five South American countries, and in all cases there are environmental issues that may be considered critical, the study of Ribera, who nevertheless emphasized the environmental threats that come from Brazil. Read Article