Colombian environmental institutions and organizations have teamed up to provide more effective protection against deforestation in the country’s Amazon region. From 2013 onwards, a collective of environmental organizations backed by…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos warned Friday the country had lost 10% of its forest in the last 20 years, reported Radio Caracol. “I’ve already said it and today I…
Colombia has a stunning deforestation rate of 86 acres per hour, according to the country’s Environment Ministry. Environment Minister Frank Pearl says the country has destroyed a total of 14.8…
Agriculture Minister Juan Camilo Restrepo Salazar has raised alerts regarding the exploitation of Colombia’s natural forests and the risk of possible conflicts between the farming and mining sector. “They are…
Colombia’s environment minister has warned that the forests of the Colombian Amazon are in a critical situation due to deforestation, reported Caracol Radio on Tuesday. Sandra Bessudo, the High Councillor…
Over a period of five years an area of forest equivalent to two and a half times the size of Jamaica has been lost in Colombia, largely in regions…
Colombia will request resources to protect its vegetation and will ask industrialized nations to finance programs to help the Andean nation adapt to the effects of global warming at a…