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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

Rebel road expansion brings deforestation to remote Colombian Amazon

Taran Volckhausen 19 May 2017
Rock formations near San José del Guaviare. Photo by Laura Dixon for Mongabay.

Guaviare: Colombia’s frontline in the country’s battle to stop deforestation in the Amazon

Laura Dixon 8 May 2017
Indigenous Arhuaco peoples ride toward the forest in Colombia. Photo by Bram Ebus for Mongabay.

Colombia’s indigenous Arhuaco awarded 500 hectares in ongoing bid to regain ancestral lands

Bram Ebus 26 Apr 2017

New leaf-nosed bat uncovered amidst burning habitat in Venezuela

Morgan Erickson-Davis 6 Apr 2017
Rhinella granulosa toad in Chocó-Darien, Colombia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Successful Colombian rainforest project exposes problems with carbon emissions trading

Bart Crezee 6 Apr 2017
From the series "The Blood Forest" by photographer Philippe Echaroux.

Indigenous peoples in Colombia play crucial role in the fight against climate change

Bart Crezee 30 Mar 2017
Residents celebrate in town square after the results of the vote were announced in Cajamarca, Colombia on March 26, 2017. Photo by Bram Ebus for Mongabay.

Villagers vote to ban ‘La Colosa’ gold mining project in Colombia

Bram Ebus 27 Mar 2017
Flooded sugar cane fields near Colombia's third largest city, Cali, in the department of Valle Del Cauca, during an intense rainy season. Photo by Neil Palmer (CIAT)

Colombia’s cane industry efficient but potentially damaging

Kimberley Brown 27 Mar 2017

13,000 acres of cloud forest now protected in Colombia

Lillie Howell 16 Mar 2017

Documenting the consequences of palm oil production beyond Southeast Asia

Mongabay.com 6 Feb 2017
La Chorrera is an administrative district located in the department of the Amazon, part of the Predio Putumayo reservation. Photo courtesy of WWF Colombia

Amazon Indigenous REDD+: an innovative approach to conserve Colombian forests?

Eliana Garzón 6 Jan 2017

The year in tropical rainforests: 2016

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Dec 2016

Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2016

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Dec 2016

What do experts have to say about Latin American wildlife trafficking?

Alexa Eunoé Vélez Zuazo 23 Dec 2016

Wildlife for sale: More than 5,000 traffickers arrested this year in Colombia

María Lourdes Zimmermann 21 Dec 2016
The deep-set roots of the mangrove with their strong, crisscossed roots in Sanquianga National Park. Photo courtesy of National Natural Parks of Colombia

Fate of Colombian shellfish pickers closely tied to mangrove

Juanita Rico 21 Nov 2016

Large branches fall from the western Amazon rainforest canopy at a surprising rate

Sarah McQuate 18 Nov 2016

Failed economic development plans drive deforestation in Andean Amazon

Mike Gaworecki 20 Oct 2016

A cost-benefit analysis of securing indigenous land rights in the Amazon

Mike Gaworecki 11 Oct 2016

Indigenous communities take the lead on conservation in Colombia

Laura Dixon 30 Sep 2016

Forests in Colombia fall victim to illegal coca plantations

María Lourdes Zimmermann 16 Sep 2016

Beef consumers’ role in causing deforestation in South America (commentary)

Asha Sharma 13 Sep 2016

In search of a lost species: the Santa Marta Toro

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Aug 2016
Red-eyed tree frog. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

The top 10 most biodiverse countries

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 May 2016

Indigenous and forest community leaders tour the EU to call for conflict-free palm oil

Mike Gaworecki 4 May 2016

Award-winning Colombian film, “The Embrace of the Serpent”, is not sitting well with a local indigenous community

Ruxandra Guidi 1 Mar 2016

The year in rainforests: 2015

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2015

Creating a commons: sustainable fishing and hunting in the Colombian Amazon

David Barton Bray 23 Dec 2015

Norway extends forest conservation initiative

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Dec 2015

Deforestation in Colombia up nearly 20 percent last year, but down in the Colombian Amazon

Mike Gaworecki 26 Nov 2015

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