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A member of the U’wa Indigenous group in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

U’wa people await implementation of landmark court ruling against Colombian gov’t

Antonio José Paz Cardona 11 Jul 2025
Illegal dredger in the Caquetá River. Image courtesy of Juan Carlos Contreras.

Indigenous Amazonians win landmark ruling against mercury pollution in Colombia

Iván Paredes Tamayo 9 Jul 2025
brown spider monkey Colombia

Forest corridors protect Colombia’s critically endangered brown spider monkey

Sean Mowbray 2 Jul 2025
A member of the Indigenous Tikuna nation paddling a dugout canoe on a tributary of the Amazon in Colombia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

The cost of conservation without consent: Astrid Puentes on rights-based environmentalism

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Jun 2025
Graphic image by Sara Arredondo – Baudó Agencia Pública.

Indigenous guards: The shield of Colombia’s Amazon

Daniela Quintero Díaz 26 Jun 2025
bird Colombia

In Colombia, bird-watching brings tourism and a love for conservation

Charlie Cordero 23 Jun 2025

Wildfires push tropical forest loss in Latin America to record highs

Mie Hoejris Dahl 17 Jun 2025
Woman standing next to a tree.

Making nature a healing place: Interview with Colombia’s Enilda Jiménez

Manuel Fonseca 10 Jun 2025

Strategic planning for development in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 6 Jun 2025

Illegal wood from Colombia’s rainforests enters US and EU supply chains

Mie Hoejris Dahl 6 May 2025
An Inga leader from the Yunguillo reserve, José Homero Mutumbajoy is the human rights and peace coordinator for OPIAC. Image courtesy of José Homero Mutumbajoy.

‘Colombia’s Amazon peoples provide solutions’: Interview with José Homero Mutumbajoy

Latoya Abulu 1 May 2025
Voluntarily isolated people in the Javari Valley in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo credit: FUNAI.

Indigenous delegates at the U.N. raise alarm on isolated peoples in the Amazon

Aimee Gabay 25 Apr 2025
Members of the international study team pull a peat core from a wetland in the Colombian Amazon.

New research finds substantial peat deposits in Colombia’s conflicted Amazon

Erik Iverson 23 Apr 2025
A part of Putumayo rainforest showing areas of deforestation.

Armed groups, cattle ranchers drove 35% rise in Colombia’s deforestation in 2024

Antonio José Paz Cardona 18 Apr 2025
Susana Muhamad interacts with an Indigenous representative.

Colombia’s green transition should be inclusive: Interview with Susana Muhamad, former environment minister

Mie Hoejris Dahl 8 Apr 2025
Euperfadis Cardenas Vargas in his finca (2 hectarias of Cacao) Photo © Victor Raison

Colombian farmers switch from coffee to cacao as temperature and prices soar

Victor Raison 4 Apr 2025
The chosen Saakhelu tree, honored with offerings of chicha, stands as an axis, connecting the community to its environment and the divine. Image by Anna Abraham and Tony Kirby.

Photos: Colombia’s Indigenous Nasa push back against cultural loss to reconnect with nature

Anna Abraham, Tony Kirby 2 Apr 2025
Bernardo Vallejo inspects in Finca Las Brisas. Image © Victor Raison.

Colombia’s coffee farmers try to balance innovation and tradition to adapt to climate change

Victor Raison 1 Apr 2025
mangrove conservation

Colombia’s women clam collectors protect Pacific mangroves and mollusks

Catherine Ellis 1 Apr 2025

Colombia creates landmark territory to protect uncontacted Indigenous groups

Maxwell Radwin 27 Mar 2025
oil spill river

Colombia’s top oil company concealed environmental damages: Investigation

Mie Hoejris Dahl 20 Mar 2025

Colombia’s cattle traceability bill awaits approval as deforestation spikes

Maxwell Radwin 25 Feb 2025
Heat spots in areas with Prodes warnings (2017-2019). Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory, in Labrea, Amazonas state, Brazil. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. Image © Christian Braga / Greenpeace.

Pause to USAID already having impacts on community conservation in the Amazon

Aimee Gabay 24 Feb 2025

After LA, fire crisis reaches Latin America — from Mexico to Argentina

Astrid Arellano 17 Feb 2025
a fly mid-pollination

Warming threatens flies more than bees, raising pollination concerns

Liz Kimbrough 8 Jan 2025

Indigenous communities come together to protect the Colombian Amazon

Mie Hoejris Dahl 8 Jan 2025

Conservation and the rise of corporations in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 3 Jan 2025

An underground gold war in Colombia is ‘a ticking ecological time bomb’

Joshua Collins 31 Dec 2024
Eagle Route Approach Condor. Image by Natasha Pentin.

Indigenous runners complete seven-month journey for Mother Earth and solidarity

Natasha Pentin 30 Dec 2024

The particularities of the migratory movement in Venezuela, the Guianas and Suriname

Timothy J. Killeen 27 Dec 2024

Coffee agroforestry promises a path to EUDR compliance, but challenges remain

Marina Martinez 26 Dec 2024
YEAR IN RAINFORESTS BANNER

The year in tropical rainforests: 2024

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Dec 2024

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