According to this Spanish-language article, fires continue to burn throughout Bolivia this year: “According to the latest report from the Forest and Land Authority (ABT), between October 12 and 18, 4,436 heat sources were registered in protected areas, equivalent to 26.6% of burns that took place in that period.” The daily average of events in 2020 (2,382) is “higher than the record for 2019 (of) “1,582 sources per day’. Madidi is one of the affected reserves. Half of the fires are occurring in “areas with forests and scrub.” rather than agricultural land. To date, “600 administrative proceedings have been opened against people who cause fires.”
Fire consumes 26.6% of protected areas in Bolivia