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Climate change puts ancestral farming indicators under stress Bolivia's highlands
2014-03-02 22:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: For centuries, farmers in the fragile ecosystems of the high Andes have looked to the behavior of plants and animals to figure out what crops to grow and when. If reeds dried up in the late summer, rainless weather lay ahead, they believed. If the Andean fox made a howling appearance, abundant rains were thought sure to come. But increasingly erratic weather that scientists attribute to global warming is rendering their age-old methods less reliable, endangering harvests in a region where life...
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Bolivia's indigenous people join fight to save Gran Chaco wilderness
2013-07-08 22:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Only from Cerro Colorado a rocky outcrop that rears vertiginously over the treetops is it possible to make out the vastness of the Gran Chaco as it stretches from this corner of Bolivia beyond the horizon into Paraguay. This enormous swath of dry forest and scrubland, where every plant or tree bears thorns, is South America's second largest wilderness after the Amazon rainforest. The Gran Chaco is threatened on all sides: Mennonite cattle ranchers have bought up large tracts in Paraguay and...
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