After the announcement by UNESCO of Chiribiquete’s World Heritage status, the Colombian government expanded the size of the park to a total of 4 million hectares.
The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew has received the seeds of 50 plants native to Colombia, including three Espeletia, a frailejón from the páramos of Boyacá.
A mega highway project designed to unite Venezuela with Ecuador through the Colombian Amazon has been scrapped to save threatened biodiversity.
Zoologists removed Monday a wild Boa Constrictor from Bogotá’s Simón Bolívar park after it was spotted in a local pond. The animal was trafficked from the Colombian Amazon.
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The leading restaurant group Takami, and host of ecologically minded chefs, are working to integrate small scale farmers in the food selection process.
Colombia has plenty of pristine forest to conjure one’s imagination. Several of them, even have mythical beasts.
The internal conflict may have saved the Blue-billed Currassow from extinction, but the challenge ahead is to give this species a fighting chance at survival.
Chiribiquete National Park has been proposed to UNESCO as a World Natural Heritage site. The largest of all protected parks in Colombia is also one of the most topographically diverse.
The Humboldt Institute has released a beautifully illustrated tarot deck to draw attention to Colombia’s endangered biodiversity. It also reads the future.
The Colombian genus of this revered tree is under threat from loggers in Antioquia, but one organization is trying to save the magnolia from extinction.
The Marginal de la Selva is a mega road project to unite Venezuela with Ecuador. The environmental impact could be devastating to Colombia’s Amazonia.
According to the Humboldt Institute, some 2,700 species of flora and fauna are endangered by deforestation in Colombia’s more remote regions.
A controversial decision by Bogotá’s mayoralty to seize and destroy fish from a shopping mall aquarium has pitched environmental groups against the administration.
Santa Marta made conservation history in Colombia when a giant leatherback turtle that came ashore on a tourist beach gave birth to many hatchlings.
The illicit trade in wildlife is estimated to be above US$19 billion. But the cost is much more profound in human terms – sowing death, corruption, insecurity and poverty.