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Want genuine progress towards restoring nature? Follow these 4 steps

“Nature positive” is seemingly everywhere. Two weeks ago, Australia hosted the first Global Nature Positive Summit. This week, nations are meeting in Colombia for a global biodiversity summit to discuss progress on nature positive commitments.

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Amazon River Drought Threatens Indigenous Communities

Learn about the challenges faced by Indigenous communities in Leticia, Colombia, due to the Amazon River's low water levels and the efforts to provide assi...

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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 Friday, November 1, is focused on how countries will fulfil previous pledges to protect at least 30% of the world’s land and water and restore 30% of degraded ecosystems…

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In Colombia, Amazon River's extreme drought falls hard on Indigenous communities

The severe drought of the Amazon River has caused Indigenous communities who live beside it to struggle for food, water and simply getting from one place to another

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Ex-Rangers player Alfredo Morelos reportedly involved in drink driving smash

Former Rangers player Alfredo Morelos has been reportedly involved in a drink driving smash in Colombia

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Carlos Vives Longtime Collaborator and Colombian Music Legend Egidio Cuadrado Dies at 71

Cuadrado had been hospitalized with a severe case of pneumonia

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From drones to genomics, science can help fight extinction: that work must begin at Cop16

As nations meet in Colombia to confront species and ecosystem loss, the onus is on the global north to put science and collaboration at the heart of the issue, says Angela McLean, the UK’s chief scientific adviser

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Cote d'Ivoire has lost 'nearly 80 percent of its forest and wildlife cover'

How can we protect wild animals when the world's forest cover continues to shrink? This is just one of the many issues under discussion at the Cop16 biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia. In West Africa, certain emblematic species such as the elephant are at risk of extinction. The head of…

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New report reveals that targets to save 30% of the ocean by 2030 aren’t being met

The world is gathering in Colombia for the UN biodiversity conference known as Cop16, a biannual pulse-taking of the living planet where actions to protect the natural world are agreed. At its last meeting in 2022, an ambitious roadmap for nature protection was put in place. As part of that…

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Global Leaders Meet In Colombia To Address Biodiversity Crisis

COP16 in Cali addresses global biodiversity decline, emphasizing Indigenous roles and urgent action for conservation.

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Cop16 at a glance: the big issues that will define talks at Colombia’s UN summit

Delegates from 196 countries are discussing progress in preserving biodiversity. So what are the sticking points?

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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 opens in Colombia on Monday as the window to prevent devastating losses is closing.

Radio France Internationale

Environmental delegates gather in Colombia for a conference on dwindling global biodiversity

As the world grapples with plummeting levels of biodiversity, Colombia is hosting two weeks of meetings for the United Nations Biodiversity Conference

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UN Chief Seeks 'Significant' Funding At Summit To Save Nature

UN chief Antonio Guterres on Sunday urged "significant investment" in a fund created to safeguard Earth's biodiversity as he addressed delegates to the world's biggest nature protection conference in Cali, Colombia.

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Zoologist Jane Goodall warns: ‘The world is a mess’ ahead of COP16

As officials from around 200 countries prepare to meet in Colombia for the Cop16 biodiversity summit starting Monday, world-respected British zoologist Jane Goodall said there was little time left to reverse the downward slide. She wants the United Nations meeting to lead to action rather than "words and false promises".

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Prime Murder Suspect Found Dead In Apparent Suicide

Houston murder suspect found dead in suspected suicide; family seeks to repatriate victim's body to Colombia.

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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 750 kilometers (470 miles) through northern Colombian jungles

International Business Times

Countries Under Pressure To Fork Out For Nature At UN Conference

Thousands of delegates from around the world are descending on Colombia for a summit on halting humankind's rapacious destruction of nature, with host city Cali on high alert after threats from guerrilla groups.

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Efforts to combat deforestation in Colombia lag because of armed groups, report finds

The International Crisis Group is reporting that Colombia's government efforts to control deforestation in the Amazon are being hampered by the actions of left-wing dissidents who control the area

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Biodiversity Conference To Review Progress On 30 By 30 Goals

Countries convene to review progress on 30 by 30 biodiversity target and funding at COP16 conference in Colombia.

International Business Times

How Indigenous Guards Saved A Colombian Lake From Overtourism

In the crater of a semi-dormant volcano in southwest Colombia lies a sacred lake of startling green which used to draw a steady stream of garbage-tossing tourists before Indigenous leaders took back control.

The Conversation

‘Nature markets’ may help preserve biodiversity – but they risk repeating colonial patterns of Indigenous exploitation

As the latest global biodiversity summit gets underway in Colombia, finance for the conservation and restoration of nature is one of the key themes of negotiations.

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Lula and Petro have the chance of a lifetime to save the Amazon. Can they unite idealism and realpolitik to pull it off?

The South American leaders are in the spotlight as they prepare to host this week’s Cop16 biodiversity summit, November’s G20 meeting and next year’s Cop30 climate summit

International Business Times

Lab-grown Frogs: A Colombian's Response To Wildlife Trafficking

Down a dirt track in Colombia, deep in a forest, conservationists are breeding prized exotic frogs to try to undercut traffickers who are plundering the country's jungles of its amphibians.

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Soon-to-retire Rigoberto Urán sets new goal of becoming a professional football player

Colombian's soap opera series about his life nominated for upcoming International Emmy awards

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