The continued destruction of Colombia’s largest wetland
Colombia’s largest wetland could be completely destroyed if more is not done to reverse decades of neglect.
Colombia’s largest wetland could be completely destroyed if more is not done to reverse decades of neglect.
Colombia, the second most bio-diverse country on earth, will receive help from several international organizations to expand its current nature reserves with 3.5 million hectares.
Colombia has provisionally granted special environmental status to 57 areas with a total size of 5,600 square miles that are threatened by mining.
Sixty-five turtles will be released into the Caribbean ocean off Colombian coastal city of Cartagena in a three-day event to promote the conservation of the animals that are in danger of extinction.
Colombia seeks to reduce the national emission of greenhouse gases with at least 20% in the next 15 years, the country’s environment minister confirmed on Tuesday.
Due to “significant improvements” against human destruction, UNESCO removed Colombia’s Katios National Park from its list of World Heritage in Danger.
A FARC attack on an oil pipeline in the southwest of Colombia has caused the country’s biggest environmental disaster in the past decade, said the country’s environment Minister on Thursday.
A series of alleged FARC attacks on oil infrastructure in the northeast of Colombia forced state-run oil company Ecopetrol to suspend operations while displacing more than 50 families.
Colombia’s largest rebel group, the FARC, on Monday allegedly stopped a caravan of 25 oil trucks, forcing 19 of them to dump their crude oil in the middle of the Amazon…