Colombia's fight against deforestation is hampered by deeply-rooted challenges
Colombia, where the COP16 on biodiversity opened on October 21, has lost six million hectares of forest since 1990. The ...
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Colombia's Awa people resist violence, maintain 'spiritual bond' with nature
The Awa of Colombia are an Indigenous people who have been threatened by armed groups in the country's southwestern ...
As Colombia hosts a UN biodiversity summit, its own Amazonian rainforest is in crisis
The city of Cali, in Colombia, is hosting the UN’s 16th biodiversity summit, known as Cop16. The summit, which runs until ...
Colombian coca leaf farming hit two-decade high in 2023, UN says
Colombian land dedicated to the cultivation of coca leaves, a raw ingredient for cocaine, jumped 10% last year to reach the ...
Environmental delegates gather in Colombia for conference on dwindling global biodiversity
Global environmental leaders gather Monday in Cali, Colombia to assess the world's plummeting biodiversity levels and ...
A Major Push to Protect Nature Is Happening Now
Delegates from around the world are meeting in Colombia in what is expected to be the biggest U.N. biodiversity conference in ...
New mapping techniques empower bird conservation in Colombia
Peñuela, assistant professor of environmental studies, and a team of Colombian researchers have introduced a transformative ...
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Ecosystems hang in the balance as Colombia hosts crucial biodiversity talks
With a million species on the brink of extinction and 70 percent of global ecosystems degraded, the Cop16 biodiversity summit ...
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Colombia’s Potential Cocaine Production Surges to a Record High
Colombia has once again produced cocaine at a record pace as President Gustavo Petro’s government changed the country’s strategy for fighting illegal drugs. The area of land planted with coca ...
Afro-Colombians fight the effects of gold mining through biodiversity projects in a violent region
Many initiatives by ethnic communities in impoverished Choco in northwestern Colombia aim to fight back against the environmental devastation inflicted upon the Atrato, a river that weaves around some ...
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CBD COP16 events: Putting people at the center of biodiversity protection
As world leaders gather in Cali, Colombia for the 16th Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP16), Global Witness is ...
‘The Paris Agreement for nature’: Can COP16 move countries to protect 30% of land and water by 2030?
The whole world will be watching to see how the EU delivers on its global commitments, Greenpeace says.View on euronews ...