Oil and Cocaine Threaten Isiboro Secure Nat'l Park and Native Peoples

TIPNIS is the "Isiboro-Secure Indigenous Territory and National Park". It is located in the departments of Beni and Cochabamba, in Bolivia. It is doubly protected because it is a national park and also an indigenous territory of the moxeños, yurakarés and chimanes... Adolfo Moye (leader of the Subcentral TIPNIS, which represents the 64 indigenous communities of the area) ... is alarmed by the spread of coca cultivation and the intensification of colonization and enslavement since 2007... Read the full article here...