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Colombia decree recognizes Indigenous people as environmental authorities

‘Glimmers of promise’ for 30×30 goal as UN report calls for boosted efforts

Deforestation plunges but environmental threats remain as Colombia hosts COP16

Indigenous territories & peoples are key to achieving COP16’s 30×30 target (commentary)

At COP16, conservationists will be neighbors with the legacy of fortress conservation (commentary)

The people who make up the Pan-Amazonian melting pot: regional demographics

CHAPTER 6. Culture and demographics defines the Pan Amazon’s present

Permits granted for Colombia’s Alacrán mine amid pollution, deforestation concerns

To save endangered trees, researchers in South America recruit an army of fungi

Clearest picture yet of Amazon carbon density could help guide conservation

Why is violence against environmental defenders getting worse? Five things to know

Colombia voluntary biodiversity credit methodology is first to be approved

Biodiversity’s Tower of Babel: The confusion & disorientation of Convention on Biological Diversity Decision 15/9 (commentary)

The indelible traces of oil and gas in the Peruvian, Ecuadorian and Colombian Amazon

The Andes are a key supplier of gold for the Amazon Basin

Can nations ever get artisanal gold mining right?

Colombia’s coca substitution program failing to help farmers or slow deforestation

New datasets identify which crops deforest the Amazon, and where

New relatives of the cacao tree uncovered in old plant collections

The Amazon’s most fertile forests are also most vulnerable to drought: Study

An Indigenous-led biodiversity credit scheme in the Colombian Amazon

Industrial minerals in the Pan Amazon

Colombian victims win historic lawsuit over banana giant Chiquita

Study says 40% of Amazon region is potentially conserved — more than officially recorded

Narco activity takes heavy toll on Colombia’s protected forests, satellite data show

Campesinos bring life back to a deforestation hotspot in the Colombian Amazon

In a village divided, farmers stall massive copper mine in Colombian Andes

In Amazon’s tri-border Javari region, teens fall prey to drug gangs’ lure

Tackling climate change in one of Colombia’s largest wetlands

Indonesian palm oil, Brazilian beef top contributors to U.S. deforestation exposure

Etelvina Ramos: From coca farmer to opponent of the illegal crop

Outdated infrastructure and oil spills: the cases of Colombia, Peru and Ecuador

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