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Colombia's Amazon Deforestation Dropped By 25-35% In 2023: Environment Minister

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

Latin Times · Apr 9, 2024

Colombia vows to put nature at the heart of global environmental negotiations

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

The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2024

COP28 agreement on fossil fuels explaine

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

Salon · Dec 15, 2023

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Colombia is the most dangerous country in the world for environmental defenders

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.

WEKU · Dec 6, 2023

Cop28: anger after record number of fossil fuel lobbyists given access to summit – as it happened

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

The Guardian - UK · Dec 5, 2023

Pablo Escobar’s feral ‘cocaine hippos’ face cull

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

The Independent UK · Nov 3, 2023

Colombia will try to control invasive hippo population through sterilization, transfer, euthanasia

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

The Independent UK · Nov 3, 2023

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Criminals without borders: the transnational gangs terrorising the Amazon

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

The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2023

Colombia deforestation plummets as peace efforts focus on rainforest

Official figures show deforestation fell 26% in Colombian Amazon last year and 29% nationwide

The Guardian - US · Jul 12, 2023

Lula's COP27 visit seen as restoring Brazil's climate credibility

The election of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as Brazil's next president is already boosting the country's credibility at this year's U.N. climate negotiations, with the left-wing leader to participate in COP27 in Egypt on Wednesday.

Reuters · Nov 15, 2022

Colombia's Congress ratifies Escazu international agreement for the environment

Colombia's Congress has ratified the Escazu agreement to protect the environment, the government said late on Monday, paving the way to provide greater protection to environmentalists across the Andean country.

Reuters · Oct 11, 2022

Colombia’s battle against Amazon deforestation: ‘The jungle is disappearing’

Leftwing government launches crackdown on illegal clearances to tackle destruction of rainforest

Financial Times · Sep 21, 2022

Colombia must meet international deforestation targets -new environment minister

Colombia must base its conservation targets on international agreements that push for annual deforestation of 100,000 hectares or less by 2025, incoming Environment Minister Susana Muhamad said on Wednesday.

Reuters · Aug 4, 2022

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