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When one wants  a safari to watch wildlife , it is normal to think in Africa or in a faraway jungle or maybe in a remote place in the world.  This article wants  to show that this is not necessary , no matter where you live, if you take your time to search for, I am sure you will find  marvelous wildlife very close to you . Maybe they are  not as spectacular as the great beasts or animals , but they are very interesting and wonderful. Even in a city you can find many animals around us.   Santa Cruz de la Sierra , the city where I live is , particularly , a city that still has lots of wildlife despite its development and population growth (Santa Cruz has currently over 1.6 million inhabitants (2010 )). Because it is located  in the Amazon basin, it still has remnants of reinforest's wildlife . Maybe several animals are not in t he most appropriate conditions, but they are struggling for surviving.  Some sh...

 Perhaps some have read this novel written by García Márquez, which describes a murder and details of this killing. The same is happening with our beloved Amazonian forests and the worst problem is that this death may extend not only to animals and plants but all of us. "Ipias" Hills burning - September 2011 The Amazon, before becoming a victim of human settlements, had no time of the year with burnings like now. Since man came up with the "bright idea" to transform forest lands for grazing and agriculture by burnings, this has not stopped. What is not known is that this action diminishes the rainfall and what was once a rainforest, becomes an arid and dry plain. As an example we can mention all the Chaco's Zone (south east of Bolivia, part of Paraguay and northern Argentina) that was previously rain forest and is now a semi-dessert with scarce vegetation and water problems due to old burnings, long time ago. The Spanish name "chaco" is transl...