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“Land Above the Clouds”

Anglo-Bolivian’s webinar about the work of Tony Morrison and the film “Land Above the Clouds”, presented by her wife, Marion Morrison.

Identifying Globally Important Plant Areas (IPAs) in the Chiquitania

With Bolivian partners, the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew is documenting and assessing areas of the Chiquitania for globally unique plant species and habitat types, making the results available to decision-makers locally as well as internationally.

Chiquitania: Paradise at Risk

More than 20% of the Chiquitania is under cover of protected areas. However, more than 4 million hectares suffered the direct or indirect impact of indiscriminate logging, land trafficking, illegal invasions, agricultural frontier expansion, and forest fires.

Bolivia’s Internet Challenges

InternetBolivia.org director, Eliana Quiroz, will talk about Bolivia’s internet challenges: the current state of play, issues concerning privacy, access and public policy, among others.

Brits in Bolivia – bits and pieces

Former British diplomat, Alan Shave – living in La Paz since his retirement in 1996 – was challenged, over a glass of cognac, to write a history of the British in Bolivia. His investigations have now produced some 40 chapters in draft – and he’s still researching everything British in his adoptive country from bilateral relations to spies, mining and railway development and more.