“Lions hate circuses” has long been a bumper-sticker slogan of the animal-rights movement, and Bolivia has heard the message: the left-leaning government of the Andean country recently passed the ...
LA PAZ, Bolivia – Bolivia has enacted what animal rights defenders are calling the world's first law that prohibits the use of animals in circuses. A handful of other countries have banned the use of ...
Hidden in Bolivia’s seasonal wetlands, a small fish that scientists had written off as extinct for more than two decades has ...
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia — She could have lived till 40 in the wild, where the average life span of a lion is double that in captivity. But Maiza is frail and nearly blind after 18 years in the circus, ...
Scientists have discovered seven new animal species in Bolivia’s Madidi National Park. The finds, which include three frogs, three lizards and one catfish, were made last year and have now been ...
LA PAZ, BoliviaLA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivia has enacted what animal rights defenders are calling the world’s first law that prohibits the use of animals in circuses. A handful of other countries have ...
Amongst the patients here is a small armadillo who was left nearly blinded by the wildfires. Bolivia is one of the poorest nations in the western hemisphere, but one of the richest in biodiversity.
Travelers volunteer to care for world's most exotic and savage beasts. AMBUE ARI, Bolivia, June 11, 2009— -- They walk the jaguars, talk with the pumas and play with the monkeys. Deep in the ...
STORY: In San Buenaventura, the Inti Wara Yassi animal shelter has been working next to firefighters and volunteers to help animals in need. Rescuers patrol the forests searching for animals at risk ...
Not all animals can escape when fire comes burning through the forest. In Bolivia, millions of animals are likely dead as a result of the raging forest fires that continue to burn across the region, ...
More than two million wild animals, including jaguars, pumas and llamas, have perished in weeks of wildfires that devastated huge swaths of Bolivian forest and grassland, environmental experts said ...
COCHABAMBA, BoliviaCOCHABAMBA, Bolivia — She could have lived till 40 in the wild, where the average life span of a lion is double that in captivity. But Maiza is frail and nearly blind after 18 years ...