Bolivia: Global Connections
Report prepared by Krystal Brennan and Jen Sarchuk, students in BCIT’s Fish, Wildlife and Recreation Program
Bolivia shares the following resources with Canada: natural gas, petroleum, zinc, silver, iron, lead, gold, timber, and hydropower. Bolivia is energy self-sufficient, though only 25% of rural communities have electricity. Micro hydropower plants are easier to bring to these areas than power lines, and they are less expensive. British Columbia plans to be energy self-sufficient by 2010.
Although Canada trades very little with Bolivia, other international companies are beginning to invest in Bolivia’s natural gas, hoping it will be a major future export. British Columbia also exports natural gas. Bolivia’s and Canada’s primary objective for national parks is to conserve biodiversity. Canada has also signed all sixteen international agreements that Bolivia has signed.
The olive-sided flycatcher, barn swallow, common nighthawk, and other perching birds (passeriformes), migrate from Alaska to Bolivia. Some of these birds (often called neotropical migrants) will fly 22,000 km round trip. Also, both British Columbia and Bolivia have cougars and brown rats.
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