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Livestock in Bolivia: exports are expanded, forests are reduced

Fresh Whole Beef
Bolivia
Published Feb 22, 2021

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China monopolizes the Bolivian meat market. The demand coincides with the increase in forest loss and fires, mainly in Santa Cruz, the department where the cattle ranches are located.

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* This is a journalistic collaboration between MongabayLatam, Pýgina Siete and the Environmental Information Network In the year 2020, when the pandemic paralyzed the world, Bolivia exported more than 14 million kilos of beef to China, Peru, Ecuador and the Republic of Congo. The proceeds from the sale of this immense shipment of meat benefited a few ranchers who earned an income of more than $ 60 million. This takeoff in exports coincided, in addition, with two seasons of forest fires that devastated more than 10 million hectares in Bolivia. An emergency that was associated with a series of supreme decrees that promoted, precisely, the expansion of the agricultural and livestock frontiers in the regions of Santa Cruz and Beni, which are most affected by the fire and controlled burns. Recently, the Friends of Nature Foundation (FAN) has just completed a study that estimates deforestation in Bolivia between 1986 and 2019. The figure is 6 million 922 thousand hectares of forest, an ...
Source: Paginasiete
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