Environmental Destruction in Bolivia

Citizen-driven initiatives in Bolivia struggle to tackle the devastating annual forest fires with little support from the government, whose economic plans encourage the persistence of this type of disaster.

Communities around the world’s largest salt flat in the South of Bolivia, Uyuni, oppose the government's plans to install lithium extraction plants, threatening the environment and their principal source of income: tourism.

Communities in the Natural Reserve Tariquía, in the south of Bolivia, are fighting to stop governmental oil and gas extraction projects that will deteriorate nature and their already precarious living conditions.