Taran Volckhausen

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Taran Volckhausen is a freelance writer based in Medellin, Colombia. He is also a former editor at Colombia Reports. Follow him on Twitter @tvolckhausen.

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Hotter tropics may worsen climate change, reforestation could lessen it: Studies

Taran Volckhausen 2 Oct 2020

Amazon gold mining wipes out rainforest regeneration for years: Study

Taran Volckhausen 4 Aug 2020

Niobium mining in Brazilian Amazon would cause significant forest loss: Study

Taran Volckhausen 24 Jul 2020

As habitat degradation threatens Amazon species, one region offers hope

Taran Volckhausen 14 May 2020

Colombian indigenous groups rush to protect elders, leaders from COVID-19

Taran Volckhausen 10 Apr 2020

National parks pay the price as land conflicts intensify in Colombia

Taran Volckhausen 24 Mar 2020

Extreme El Niño drought, fires contribute to Amazon insect collapse: Study

Taran Volckhausen 13 Mar 2020

Massacre in Nicaragua: Four indigenous community members killed for their land

Taran Volckhausen 14 Feb 2020

Escalating firestorms could turn Amazon from carbon sink to source: Study

Taran Volckhausen 6 Feb 2020

Despite foreign aid, Colombia struggles to rein in Amazon deforestation

Taran Volckhausen 29 Jan 2020

Colombia’s ‘Heart of the World’: Mining, megaprojects overrun indigenous land

Taran Volckhausen 15 Jan 2020

Paris accord ‘impossible to implement’ if tropical forest loss not stopped

Taran Volckhausen 19 Dec 2019

Bonobo conservation stymied by deforestation, human rights abuses

Taran Volckhausen 24 Oct 2019

Indigenous communities, wildlife under threat as farms invade Nicaraguan reserve

Taran Volckhausen 17 Sep 2019

Rainforest destruction accelerates in Honduras UNESCO site

Taran Volckhausen 13 Aug 2019

Colombian investors push Pacific port project, threatening biodiversity hotspot

Taran Volckhausen 18 Jul 2019

Colombia registers first drop in deforestation since 2016 FARC peace deal

Taran Volckhausen 15 Jul 2019
Small-scale deforestation in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Colombia gasoline fueling cocaine production

Taran Volckhausen 28 Jun 2019

Long-term ecological research threatened by short-term thinking

Taran Volckhausen 3 Jun 2019

Land grabbing, cattle ranching ravage Colombian Amazon after FARC demobilization

Taran Volckhausen 30 May 2019
2018 Goldman Environmental Prize Winner Francia Márquez. Image courtesy Goldman Environmental Prize.

Goldman Prize winner survives armed attack on Afro-Colombian social leaders

Taran Volckhausen 9 May 2019
A loggerhead turtle swims around a fish aggregation device belonging to the Ecuadorean fishing vessel Ingalapagos. Greenpeace says it documented the vessel in the vicinity of the northern Galapagos Islands. Image by © Alex Hofford / Greenpeace.

30 percent by 2030? Study maps out how to protect the world’s oceans

Taran Volckhausen 11 Apr 2019

Indigenous leaders decry Colombia’s deadly crackdown on land protesters

Taran Volckhausen 4 Apr 2019

Forests scramble to absorb carbon as emissions continue to increase

Taran Volckhausen 21 Mar 2019

Study identifies climate-resilient trees to help orangutan conservation

Taran Volckhausen 15 Mar 2019

Indigenous-made film explores traditional textile making in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Taran Volckhausen 28 Feb 2019
Cauca River. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

Colombia’s disaster-ridden hydropower project runs second largest river dry

Taran Volckhausen 7 Feb 2019

For embattled environmental defenders, a reprieve of sorts in 2018

Taran Volckhausen 24 Dec 2018
Indigenous women march in Puyo, Ecuador on March 8, 2018. Photo by Kimberley Brown/Mongabay.

Indigenous peoples denounce ongoing land rights violations in Ecuador

Taran Volckhausen 17 Dec 2018

‘There are no laws’: Cattle, drugs, corruption destroying Honduras UNESCO site

Taran Volckhausen 6 Dec 2018

As Colombia expands its palm oil sector, scientists worry about wildlife

Taran Volckhausen 21 Jun 2018

How Colombia became Latin America’s palm oil powerhouse

Taran Volckhausen 31 May 2018

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