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  • EcoBolivia Foundation
    http://www.ecobolivia.com/

  • National Geographic Magazine cover story on Madidi National Park (March 2000) http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0003/hilights.html#a

  • W. Alton Jones Foundation-supported project and visit with Rosa Maria Ruiz in Madidi National Park. The Foundation equipped EcoBolivia with portable, satellite-linked computer and telephone communications, and initiated the practice of sending reports from the field, posted to the Web. January, 1999.
    http://www.wajftech.org/EcoBolivia/ecoboliv.htm

  • Will Bolivia Have an Inland Sea?, from the Bolivian Times, December 3, 1998. An in-depth report on the proposed Bala dam, which would flood much of Madidi National Park and produce almost three times Bolivia's current electrical generating capacity.
    http://www.latinwide.com/boltimes/edit9848/tapa.htm

  • Nipping Disaster in the Bud. An International Rivers Network appeal to save Madidi Park from the Bala dam.
    http://www.irn.org/programs/latamerica/bala.subm.html

  • Fighting for the Forests, from the Bolivian Times, December 18, 1997.
    http://www.latinwide.com/boltimes/edit-50/tapa.htm

  • A Letter from the Field by Charles Munn, Senior Conservation Zoologist for the Macaw Landing Foundation, October, 1997.
    http://www.cnnw.net/~mlf/field.html

  • Triplist of birds sighted during a Field Guides Incorporated tour of Madidi National Park, August 4-17, 1997.
    http://www.fieldguides.com/1997bowBW.html

  • Biological Assessment of the Alto Madidi Region by the Conservation International Foundation Rapid Assessment Program, May 18 - June 15, 1990.
    http://www.conservation.org/web/CILIB/PUBLICAT/RAP/rap1/Rap1.htm
    This publication can be purchased online from Amazon.com.
    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D1881173054/boliviawebA/002-8195792-3717013

  • Conservation International Lands Giant Bolivian Parks Deal. Conversion of a logging concession ends all legal logging in Madidi National Park, threats to the park still include illegal logging, oil extraction, mining, and colonization.
    http://ens.lycos.com/ens/oct99/1999L-10-01-01.html



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