Colonizers and residents looking to ease landholding and development restrictions in Bolivia’s highly prized Madidi National Park are threatening to resume protests if the government doesn’t give them what they want. Bolivia’s government appears to be acceding to demands made during angry protests last May for a roadway and oil development in the park. But leaders of those demonstrations say another key demand—park acreage for farming, logging and ranching—has gone unmet. That could spell more trouble for Madidi, an extraordinarily biodiverse, 4.5-million-acre (1.8-million-ha) expanse in northwest Bolivia where Andean-mountain and Amazonian ecosystems merge. In May’s protests, hundreds of people from Apolo, a small community on Madidi’s south-central border, and nearby towns took over part of the park... [Log in to read more]