New Investigation

Stolen Amazon: The Roots of Environmental Crime in Bolivia

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InSight Crime and the Igarapé Institute present a comprehensive investigation into environmental crime in Bolivia's Amazon and the actors driving it. This seven-part series, the product of more than a year of interviews and field research, reveals how forest fires, agribusiness, and the gold mining boom have led to the highest levels of deforestation in Bolivia’s history.
 
Using multiple case studies, the investigation reveals how these powerful economic sectors have used legal loopholes and contradictory regulations to expand their influence deeper and deeper into the Bolivian Amazon.
Chapters
1. Bolivian Amazon Faces Threats From All Sides
2. Vanishing Trees and Lakes: Deforestation in Bolivia’s Amazon
3. Protected Areas: Illegal Timber Strongholds in the Bolivian Amazon
4. Drug Trafficking Creeps Into Bolivia’s Amazon National Parks 
5. Gold Mining: A State-Sanctioned Scourge in Bolivia
6. The Poisonous Mercury Trade       
7. Poachers’ Safe Haven: Bolivian Amazon Plundered for Wildlife
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Stolen Amazon: The Roots of Environmental Crime in Bolivia is the fifth installment in a series of joint investigations between InSight Crime and the Igarapé Institute, which highlights how environmental crimes are destroying natural ecosystems and the communities that inhabit the Amazon basin.
 

About Igarapé Institute 

The Igarapé Institute is an independent think-and-do tank that conducts research, develops solutions, and establishes partnerships with the aim of influencing both public and corporate policies and practices in overcoming major global challenges.

Our mission is to contribute to public, digital, and climate security in Brazil and worldwide. Igarapé is a non-profit and non-partisan institution, based in Rio de Janeiro,
operating from the local to the global level.

Learn more about the Igarapé Institute’s climate security program>


About InSight Crime

InSight Crime is a think tank and media organization that seeks to deepen and inform the debate about organized crime and citizen security in the Americas by providing regular reporting, analysis, data, investigation, and policy suggestions on how to tackle the multiple challenges they present.

It does this by fusing investigative journalism with academic rigor, building its analysis from extensive ground research, which includes speaking to all the actors, legal and illegal. As well as publishing work, it works with a network of experts and partners in the region to provide bespoke risk analysis, diagnostics, and opportunities for positive intervention.

Learn more about InSight Crime's InDepth coverage of environmental crime >

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