On Wednesday, Colombia’s government announced a massive amplification of the territory protected by the Chiribiquete Natural National Park in the heart of the Colombian Amazon. Colombia’s Chiribiquete National Park to…
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The lumbering of trees in the Colombian Pacific rain forest by a Canadian company must be suspended announced the vice minister of environment on W Radio Thursday. Environment Vice Minister…
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With 2,000 square kilometers of forest destroyed every year, the future of the Amazon rainforest in Colombia appears bleak, reports Colombian newspaper El Espectador. The forest, known as the “lungs of…
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Forty thousand square kilometers of the Colombian rainforest were lost between 2002 and 2007, according to a study by the Amazonian Institute of Scientific Investigation, reports Dinero. The Amazonian region…
A new Amazon monkey species has been discovered in Colombia, and researchers said Thursday they believe the small, isolated population is at risk due to the cutting of forests that…