While Salento is part of the obligatory tourism trail in the Central Andes to see towering wax palms, the locality of San Félix, in Caldas, is among the most spectacular destinations to wander among Colombia’s national tree.
A giant sea elephant that traveled from the Antarctic waters to the Colombian Pacific, was poached by hunters and killed by firearms, confirmed authorities.
The Colombian government inaugurated in the port of Cartagena the Caribbean Oceanographic and Hydrographic Research Center, for the protection and conservation of its sovereign waters.
Colombia has become the first Western nation to protect 30 percent of its oceanic waters, ahead of the UN’s deadline of 2030.
The Stockholm Conference was a turning point in how countries thought about the natural world and the resources that all nations share.
Colombia’s Attorney General’s Office announced that it has dismantled an extensive animal trafficking network that sold many endangered species to private collectors.
The Green Iguana’s population comes under threat every Lent as this species is hunted for its meat and eggs. Iguanas on the coast are eaten as a substitute for fish and chicken.
Bat conservation efforts in Latin American and Caribbean are growing given this mammal’s key role in food security and preservation of natural habitats.
President Iván Duque’s official trip to Europe included the signing of a joint-pact with the EU on climate action and environmental conservation.
President Iván Duque extended Operation Artemisa’s reach to include the nation’s oceans, and protection of endangered biodiversity.
A delegation of spiritual leaders from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta made their first visit to Bogotá to petition the national government for greater conservation of their ancestral territory.
The release of a book by Nicolás Botero on the environmental challenges facing Colombia comes with an ambitious announcement by President Duque.
Some 16,000 Haitians are stranded in towns along Colombia’s Urabá coast. The humanitarian crisis is spilling into one of the world’s most dense rainforests, the Darien Gap.
The Golden Poison Dart Frog is endemic to the rainforests of Colombia’s Chocó and species with an toxin so deadly that is is considered the world’s most poisonous amphibian.
A green and yellow colored rainfrog known to inhabit the forests of Ecuador is expanding its range along Colombia’s Pacific coast, confirmed conservationists ProAves.
The legacy of environmentalist Gonzalo Cardona is inspiring youngsters to continue conservation efforts of the Yellow-eared Parrot.