This study addresses long-standing issues of securing land rights to traditional communities in the Amazon, many of which currently face new forms of land grabbing and land trafficking, notably by export companies extracting natural resources. The study also includes ideas for reforming and strengthening structurally sensitive and corruption-prone public institutions in the Bolivian Amazon, especially those related to land, environmental, and security issues.
Furthermore, it sheds light on the transnational and cross-border dynamics of environmental crime in Bolivia, including activities such as wildlife trafficking, illegal mercury trade for river-gold mining, and illicit logging exports. In this context, managing increasingly complex and globalized supply chains initiating in or cutting through the Bolivian Amazon calls for more and stronger regional and international cooperation to dismantle environmental crime and protect the forest and its people.
The findings and analysis are based on one year of open-source and fieldwork investigation in the cities of La Paz and Santa Cruz. They include desk research, phone interviews, and face-to-face interviews with environmental experts, government and security officials, local community members, academics, and others.
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Articles from this investigation:
- Bolivian Amazon Faces Threats From All Sides
- Vanishing Trees and Lakes: Deforestation in Bolivia’s Amazon
- Drug Trafficking Creeps into Bolivia’s Amazon National Parks
- Protected Areas: Illegal Timber Strongholds in the Bolivian Amazon
- Gold Mining: A State-Sanctioned Scourge in Bolivia
- The Poisonous Mercury Trade
- Poachers’ Safe Haven: Bolivian Amazon Plundered for Wildlife
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