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World’s biggest tropical crop bank opens in Colombia, taking food research high tech

Liz Kimbrough 18 Mar 2022

Colombian palm oil company under investigation for polluting rivers

Alianza periodística tras las huellas de la palma 2 Mar 2022

Afro-Colombian community safeguards pristine oceans with new protected area

Maxwell Radwin 21 Feb 2022

In Colombia, Escobar’s hippos spawn another problem: Wildlife trafficking

Diana María Pachón 8 Feb 2022
Mark Plotkin with an Embera shaman in the Darien on the Colombia-Panama. Photo credit: Amazon Conservation Team

Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin: Indigenous knowledge serves as a ‘connective tissue’ between nature and human well-being

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Jan 2022

Young environmentalists ‘plant the future’ in Colombia’s Amazon

Dimitri Selibas 24 Jan 2022

Grounded by conflict and COVID, Colombia’s bird tourism struggles to soar

Genevieve Glatsky 14 Jan 2022

Colombia’s new anti-deforestation law provokes concern for small-scale farmers

Christina Noriega 10 Jan 2022

Across Latin America, palm oil violations abound — with little accountability

Tras las huellas de la palma alliance 5 Jan 2022
Fire line moves through a degraded forest area in an undesignated public forest area in Porto Velho, Rondônia on July 29, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2021

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2021
Composite image. Left: Amazon rainforest - photo credit: Rhett A. Butler. Right: Burning forest in the Brazilian Amazon - image credit: Greenpeace

The year in rainforests 2021

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2021

In search of wild spectacles and river journeys

Mike Gaworecki 21 Dec 2021

Illegal roads pierce Indigenous reserve, national parks in Colombian Amazon

Santiago Luque Pérez 20 Dec 2021

In Latin America, the law is ‘a tool to silence’ environmental defenders

Michelle Carrere, Vanessa Romo 14 Dec 2021

In Colombia, threatened women of the Wayuú community continue to fight rampant mining

Carol Sánchez 13 Dec 2021

In southern Colombia, Indigenous groups fish and farm with the floods

Maxwell Radwin 8 Dec 2021

Indigenous community saves Colombia’s poison dart frog from coca and logging

Maxwell Radwin 30 Nov 2021
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With La Niña conditions back, is it good news for tropical forests?

Carolyn Cowan 22 Nov 2021

New protections announced for Galápagos Islands and beyond at COP26

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 3 Nov 2021

‘To change policies, insert yourself in them’: Q&A with biologist Liliana Dávalos

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 29 Oct 2021

Brazil leads Amazon in forest loss this year, Indigenous and protected areas hold out

Liz Kimbrough 6 Oct 2021

In Colombia, legal mining proves a win-win for environment, traditional communities

Dimitri Selibas 25 Sep 2021

Fires in the Amazon have already impacted 90% of plant and animal species

Suzana Camargo 21 Sep 2021

Drug trafficking and illegal logging threaten Indigenous communities in Peru

Gloria Alvitres 26 Aug 2021

The women on the front lines of safeguarding the Amazon

Mike DiGirolamo 26 Aug 2021

On the Colombian plains, a leader stands up for her people against land theft

Ginna Santisteban, Óscar Parra, Pilar Puentes 11 Aug 2021
Hammerheads. Photo credit: Yves Lefèvre

Protecting Colombia’s shark paradise: Q&A with Sandra Bessudo

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Aug 2021

Mennonites said to deforest ancestral Indigenous land in Colombia

La Liga Contra el Silencio, Mongabay Latam, Rutas del Conflicto 4 Aug 2021

More than 250 major fires detected in the Amazon this year, despite Brazil’s ban

Liz Kimbrough 3 Aug 2021

Ending Amazon deforestation a top priority on Colombian minister’s D.C. visit

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 2 Aug 2021

‘Animal rights will be part of our DNA’: Q&A with Bogotá councilor Andrea Padilla

John Edward Myers 16 Jul 2021

The only species of bear in South America: the spectacled bear | Candid Animal Cam

Romina Castagnino 16 Jul 2021

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