Soy industry adopts environmental safeguards
Elements of the soy industry have agreed to take a milestone step toward improving their production practices, which have led to widespread deforestation, displacement of small-farmers and indigenous peoples, and loss of natural habitats.
International Symposium "Evaluation of the Environmental Impacts of Large Hydroelectric Dams in Tropical Regions: The case of the Madeira River"
Aware that Bolivia and Brazil have been developing research regarding the possible economic, social and environmental impacts as a result of the construction of dams on the Amazon watershed, and in particular the Madeira River watershed, the Hydraulic and Hydrology Institute of the San Andrés Main University (IHH/UMSA La Paz), the Institute for Research for Development (IRD France) and WWF, the global conservation organization, are organizing a meeting of experts with the objective of exchanging results obtained from research and propose recommendations for the technical-environmental evaluation to be carried out for this type of infrastructure.
Illegal wood soon excluded from EU markets
Strasbourg / Brussels – WWF has welcomed today’s decision by the European Parliament to support strict rules to eliminate illegally harvested wood from the European market.
32 business men and women participate in the “Business Mission for Wood Products, Bolivia 2009”
WWF Bolivia, the conservation organization, and its Bolivia Forest and Trade Network (FTN) are organizing for the third consecutive year, the Business Mission for Wood Products targeting companies that integrate the WWF’s Global Forest and Trade Network (GFTN) and who are interested in establishing trade relations with companies that participate in the Bolivia FTN, certified Bolivian producers or those in process of certification.
Earth Hour Bolivia 2009: In the cities of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Puerto Quijarro and Trinidad
WWF-Bolivia, together with the municipal governments of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Trinidad and Puerto Quijarro, and local power companies CRE and Coserelec, invite you to participate in Earth Hour Bolivia 2009.
Brazil falls short with forest emission reduction ambitions
Brazil's revised National Climate Change Plan, which for the first time defines goals for reducing massive emissions from deforestation in the Amazon, is commendable but still short on ambition and detail, WWF-Brazil said today.
Amazon deforestation trend on the increase
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon forests has flipped from a decreasing to an increasing trend, according to new annual figures released yesterday by the country's space agency INPE. Brazil's government has meanwhile confirmed that it will be issuing forest related carbon emission reduction targets on Monday.
World Conservation Congress supports a conservation vision for the Amazon
Brazil announces new measures to stem Amazon assault
Brazil has announced new measures designed to stem an accelerating assault on the Amazon’s rainforests – on the same day as the nation’s space agency released figures showing that 756km2 of Amazon forest were cleared in August, triple the 230km2 cleared in August 2007.
September 4th: National Protected Areas Day in Bolivia
It has been 10 years since the institutionalization in terms of the functioning of the Sernap (National Service for Protected Areas) in 1998, a decentralized unit of the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development and Environment responsible for coordinating the functioning of the National Protected Areas System and guaranteeing its integral management. In 2005, the Bolivian Government, through Supreme Decree Nr. 28315, officially declared September 4th as National Protected Areas Day.