Leyner Palacios has been nominated to one of the most prestigious humanitarian awards. The survivor of the 2002 Bojaya? massacre started a grass roots campaign to recognize the rights of victims.
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.
Director James Gray’s Lost City of ‘Z’ has received critical acclaim for its stunning cinematography and art direction. The story of an early 20th century explorer Percy Fawcett, was filmed in Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.
An innovative social business is introducing a new superfood to the world and reshaping Colombia’s rural economy.
A high court in Colombia has ruled that the Atrato River is deserving of rights as guaranteed by the Constitution. This landmark decision sets an important precedent for preserving one of this country’s most biodiverse and endangered ecosystems.
In this image captured by Fransisco Duque, two members of the Arhuaco community enjoy a silent moment of ‘mambeo’ in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.
Valerie Meikle paddled 1,500 kms down the Putumayo. A story of endurance, personal loss and life in the Amazon rainforest is the subject of a poignant film.
The Arhuaco of the Sierra Nevada have regained 500 hectares of ancestral lands with the Forest Wardens Heart of the World program
The Ministry of Culture has designated the ancestral knowledge of the four indigenous communities that reside in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta as intangible cultural patrimony of Colombia.
Closed for one month by the indigenous groups that inhabit the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the PNN Tayrona reopens confirming the existence of endangered jaguars, pumas and the paujil.
With Semana Santa around the corner, Colombians head to the coast. When in Cartagena, visit a gold museum dedicated to the lost Zenu? culture
The recent rise in deaths among the Kogi peoples of Colombia’s Sierra Nevada is being blamed on a mysterious respiratory-related illness.
Local activists recently closed El Cocuy mountain after a football was kicked around on an endangered glacier. Now many are wondering when, or if, this National Park will reopen.
Think you’ve seen it all? Colombia’s post-conflict is opening up travel destinations unseen until now by the outside world.
Expoartesanias is the largest arts and crafts fair in the country and requires plenty of time as the pavilions are stocked with beautiful items. There is also a shirt film fest taking place.
The timelesss tradition of stitching elaborated patterns and colourful designs by the Kuna indians and known as molas are on display at the Gold Museum in Bogotá.