'They lied': Bolivia's untouchable Amazon lands at risk once more | Myles McCormick
by Myles McCormick in Gundonovia from Environment | The Guardian on (#31SE7)
Locals blame coca interests for the state's broken promise on protecting Tipnis national park, biodiversity hotspot and home to thousands of indigenous people
When Ovidio Teco's Amazon homeland was declared "untouchable" by the Bolivian government in 2011, his war had been won.
The concerns of people like him had been listened to: their beautiful and ancient land would not be carved in two by a 190-mile highway.
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