Through barbed wire over recently cleared land in Bolivia’s Ñuflo de Chávez province, smoke rises on the horizon. It signals the country’s recurrent wildfire crisis. In 2019, 6 million hectares burnt, 50% of which was forested area with indigenous lands disproportionately affected. Edging the Amazon rainforest, Bolivia’s eastern Chiquitania region has become one of the worst affected areas in South America.
