The intention is to plant 72,000 trees every month in the Amazon, chosen by indigenous communities, but providing food security.
Tag: Colombia
Wall Street International: Who cares about those that defend us?
The difficult situation of environmental and social activists in Latin America and Colombia
Colombia: The last indigenous attempt to save the Amazon
After ten years of work, the communities of Pirá Paraná (Vaupes region), published a book containing his knowledge. They say it’s time for dialogue with the West, before his ambition to destroy the planet.
Movie about the Colombian Amazon, nominated for an Academy Award
Ciro Guerra’s film, inspired by a true story of expeditions in the Amazon, was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars, the highest awards in world cinema.
Deforestation in Colombia up nearly 20 % last year, but down in Colombian Amazon
Some 45 percent of 2014 deforestation occurred in the Amazon, while another 24 percent was in the Andes region.
Illegal mining, a latent threat to biodiversity in the Orinoquia region, Colombia
Gold mining has become one of the main problems for conservation of biodiversity in the Orinoquia region, Guainia department.
Martin von Hildebrand: An audacious and ambitious plan for the amazon
Martín von Hildebrand is one of the most extraordinary conservation leaders you may have never heard of, he has spent nearly all of his adult life working for indigenous rights and conservation in the Amazon.
In Colombia has been lost a million hectares of forest
In the last six years were deforested in the country nearly one million hectares of forest, nearly six times the size of the Colombian region of Quindio.
Three Amazon nations, three approaches to reducing deforestation
Brazil, Peru and Colombia all have major holdings in Amazonia, and all have diverging policies that have had varying success in curbing deforestation.
Indigenous peoples want prominence in the Amazon
Representatives of ethnic groups of Colombia, Brazil and Venezuela met in Puerto Inirida, Colombia, to express the need to be included in the management and sustainable management of the Amazon ecosystem.