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

Afro-Colombian community safeguards pristine oceans with new protected area

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

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

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

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

Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2021

The year in rainforests 2021

Illegal roads pierce Indigenous reserve, national parks in Colombian Amazon

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

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

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

With La Niña conditions back, is it good news for tropical forests?

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

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

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

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

Drug trafficking and illegal logging threaten Indigenous communities in Peru

The women on the front lines of safeguarding the Amazon

Mennonites said to deforest ancestral Indigenous land in Colombia

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

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

Colombia brings landmark rulings of importance closer to Indigenous communities

In the Colombian Andes, a forest corridor staves off species extinction

Mining exposes Indigenous women in Latin America to high mercury levels

Beef industry causes deforestation in Colombia’s Chiribiquete National Park

In Colombia, end of war meant start of runaway deforestation, study finds

In less than a generation, legal mining in Colombia deforested over 120,000 hectares

Settlers invading, deforesting Colombian national parks ‘at an unstoppable speed’

A Colombian national park reveals its natural secrets through camera traps

The political economy of the Pan-Amazon (book excerpt)

Deforestation rises in Colombia’s Chiribiquete National Park as cattle invade

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