Newsweek recently featured the documentary, Tigre Gente. The article makes the connection between jaguar poaching in Madidi National Park, development projects, and reduced ecotourism possibilities.
“Losing such an emblematic species, so important for Bolivia, would mean reducing the possibilities that the national park has to continue developing ecotourism in the way we have been implementing it—through community tourism with the Indigenous people.”
“It's a new threat that is directly linked to the presence of some Chinese suppliers, due to some of the development projects that are being implemented in surrounding areas of the national park. This is where lots of construction companies come, lots of them Chinese, with many contracted workers of Chinese origin.”