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Colombia’s supreme court orders government to stop Amazon deforestation

Esteban Montaño 7 May 2018

Religious leaders mobilize to protect indigenous people and forests

Liz Kimbrough 2 May 2018

Latam Eco Review: Respected ancestral healer murdered in Peru

Mongabay.com 27 Apr 2018
After cutting down hundreds of trees, workers start fires to more easily clean the land and prepare it to grow crops. Photo by Jorge Suárez.

Open destruction in the Colombian Amazon after FARC’s exit

Esteban Montaño, Semana Sostenible 20 Apr 2018

Colombia grants ‘historic’ protections to rainforest, indigenous groups

Morgan Erickson-Davis 13 Apr 2018

Colombia scraps Amazon highway plans due to deforestation concerns

Taran Volckhausen 23 Mar 2018
The countries that approved the Agreement of Principle 10 must now ratify the treaty in their respective nations. Photo: DAR.

Two dozen Latin American countries sign agreement to protect environmental defenders

Yvette Sierra Praeli 14 Mar 2018

Small hydropower a big global issue overlooked by science and policy

Claire Salisbury 13 Mar 2018
María Chaverra, a social leader in the Curvaradó river basin, at home last month. Photo by Pablo Cuellar/Mongabay.

Colombian land defenders: ‘They’re killing us one by one’

Taran Volckhausen 9 Mar 2018
Photo courtesy of Semana Sostenible.

In Colombia, a national park’s expansion announced as deforestation progresses

Esteban Montaño, Semana Sostenible 6 Mar 2018

Andes dams twice as numerous as thought are fragmenting the Amazon

Claire Asher 28 Feb 2018
Argemiros Capela stands on his lot in front a small patch of forest that has started to grow back after years of desertification, Montes de Maria. Photo by Ana Cristina Vallejo/Mongabay.

Scorched earth: Colombia’s ‘refugee farmers’ returning to land

Maximo Anderson 9 Feb 2018

Cattle invade Colombian national park

Morgan Erickson-Davis 8 Feb 2018
A female ELN fighter practices morning drill, Noanamá, Chocó. Photo by Maximo Anderson/Mongabay.

Chocó at epicenter of Colombia’s social, environmental conflicts

Maximo Anderson 10 Jan 2018

Armed conflict was not always ‘good’ for preventing deforestation in Colombia (commentary)

Augusto Castro-Nuñez 20 Dec 2017

Colombian community leader allegedly murdered for standing up to palm oil

Taran Volckhausen 15 Dec 2017
Arley Estupiñan walks towards his house at night. Photo by Ana Cristina Vallejo with permission.

The uncertain future of Bogotá’s shantytowns

Maximo Anderson 16 Nov 2017
An orchid. Photo by Džoko Stach/Pixabay.

The lure of wild orchids persists in Colombia

Maximo Anderson 2 Nov 2017

Palm oil mounts ‘new offensive’ in Colombia while workers decry labor conditions

Bram Ebus 27 Oct 2017
A member of the Naval Forces of Southern Colombia on patrol near the Putumayo River. Photo by Bram Ebus for Mongabay.

Crackdowns on illegal mining in Colombian Amazon not enough

Bram Ebus 25 Oct 2017

Birdwatching poised to take flight in Colombia, study reveals

John Cannon 10 Oct 2017

Colombia, an example to world, balances conservation and development

Justin Catanoso 9 Oct 2017

Booming legal Amazon wildlife trade documented in new report

Claire Salisbury 6 Oct 2017

Saving the Serranía de San Lucas, a vital link in the ‘jaguar corridor’

Sean Mowbray 1 Sep 2017
Mamo Lorenzo with shaman Pachankachay in the Talking Circle (left to right). Valle de Saquenzipa, 2014. Photo courtesy of Cuvan Murillo Escobar

Colombian shamans want to restore traditional power via national network

Maximo Anderson 14 Aug 2017
Three of Colombia’s eight most critically deforested areas lie in Guaviare, one of the country’s departments. Photo courtesy of Semana Sostenible

In Colombia, deforestation gangs run rampant

Antonio José Paz Cardona 8 Aug 2017

Proposed Colombia dam threatens to wipe out endangered plants, disrupt river

Taran Volckhausen 26 Jul 2017

Colombia expands indigenous reserves near key deforestation hotspot

Mike Gaworecki 14 Jul 2017

New highway brings deforestation near two Colombian national parks

Taran Volckhausen 21 Jun 2017

International action a must to stop irreversible harm of Amazon dams, say experts

Claire Salisbury 19 Jun 2017
A cow in Colombia's Valle de Cocora National Park. Photo by Tim Snell via Flickr.

One cow per hectare: deforestation in Colombia after FARC’s exit

Esteban Montaño 6 Jun 2017
In Chocó there are many small shops that refine, sell and buy locally mined gold. Photo by Bram Ebus for Mongabay.

Colombia’s constitutional court grants rights to the Atrato River and orders the government to clean up its waters

Bram Ebus 22 May 2017

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