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Deforestation in Colombia fell 36% in 2023, the government said

Colombian guerrilla fighters, who long used kidnapping to raise cash and gain negotiating clout, have turned to a new type of hostage: the Amazon rainforest.

Country had previously turned the tide on deforestation but armed rebels have revoked ban

Colombia's deforestation went down by 29% in 2022, as per the most recent data available.

The country’s environment minister says nature is a ‘pillar’ of fighting the climate crisis

After weeks of debate at COP28 countries decide to “transition away” from oil and gas. Does this effort fall short?

Of the 177 environmental activists killed around the world last year, 60 were murdered in Colombia, says the advocacy group Global Witness. In most cases, no one is tried or convicted.

Coalition of climate NGOs highlights that there are more fossil fuel lobbyists than delegates from 10 most climate-vulnerable countries combined

Plan unveiled to export or sterilise animals descended from cocaine king’s illegal imports, with euthanasia as ‘last resort’

Colombia will try to control its population of more than 100 hippopotamuses, descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s, through surgical sterilization, the transfer of hippos to other countries and possibly euthanasia

Indigenous peoples in Colombia are being targeted and fragmented by armed groups who plunder the forest for gold and timber and take control of land