Bolivia’s rich biodiversity makes it a prime target for traffickers. It stands as one of the world’s most biodiverse countries, hosting nearly half of South...
Mercury, employed by miners to extract gold from soil and sediment, is smuggled daily in bottles across Bolivia’s borders with Peru and Brazil, reaching...
Bolivia is in the midst of a gold rush caused by record gold prices and growing international demand. This gold rush has been facilitated by permissive mining...
The climate diplomacy podcast gives insights into the latest developments in international climate diplomacy. Our hosts Raquel Munayer and Alexandra Steinkraus...
Bolivia is the world’s third-largest producer of coca, after Colombia and Peru, and a key crossroads for cocaine and other drugs. Coca crops are grown legally...
For years in Bolivia, high-value woods like cedar and the mara variety of mahogany have been felled to feed domestic and international construction and...
Deforestation has reached alarming levels in Bolivia. One of the main drivers of tree cover loss – loss of the canopy – is the rise in slash-and-burn land...
This study on Bolivia, in partnership with InSight Crime, provides a comprehensive overview of the complex network of actors, including state and non-state...
The Horn of Africa, West Africa and the Sahel, and
Central Africa are among those regions of the world
most affected by the confluence of climate change and...
Climate change as a global challenge affects our security and defence policy and therefore directly impacts the Federal Ministry of Defence’s area of...
