While President Ivan Duque was talking about conserving the Amazon at the United Nations on Monday, Colombia’s police jailed one of his allies for illegal mining in the protected rainforest.…
Colombia’s largest nature reserve, Chiribiquete National Park, has become a world heritage site, UNESCO announced Sunday. Together with a number of other natural wonders, UNESCO inscribed the 4.3 million-hectare national park…
Two kinds of river dolphin found in Colombia and the rest of the Amazon are quickly dying off and facing extinction, according to a report in the journal PLOS ONE.…
Deforestation in Colombia went up 44% in 2016 compared to the year before, newspaper El Tiempo reported on Thursday. Based on statistics provided by the country’s institute for meteorological and…
Colombia is the world’s 24th country with the most plentiful water resources on the planet, yet experts believe that within 35 years it will face serious water shortages, reported El Espectador…
Colombia announced Monday that Norway, Germany, and the United Kingdom have pledged $100 million to combat deforestation in the country’s Amazon region.
Colombia lost 140,356 hectares of forest in 2014, 16% more than the year before, according to the South American country’s meteorological institute IDEAM.
For the first time, 21 young caymans were released into the eastern Vichada province of Colombia Tuesday, with the hope that the species will avoid extinction despite being at risk due…
More than 120,000 hectares of Colombian land were deforested last year, the majority of which occurred in the Amazon region, according to the Colombian government’s first annual report on deforestation.