Fires destroy more than 4.2 million wild acres in Bolivia

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The majority of fires are in protected natural areas and in forests, according to the country's environmental secretary.

It's not just the Brazilian Amazon burning -- fires in Bolivia have ravaged more than 1.7 million hectares of land, according to Bolivian officials. That's more than double the damage from just two weeks ago.

"We insist on a national declaration of disaster, because we are losing a great part of our biodiversity that is also a water provider," she said. Other state and departmental officials like the Secretary of Energy, Mines, and Hydrocarbons and the Secretary General of Santa Cruz are now also putting pressure on the Bolivian government to declare a national disaster.

 

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