Improving living conditions in Guaviare, Colombia, increasing their income, and reconvert 1,600 hectares with production models compatible with the conservation and management of forest , is one of the challenges of Institute SINCHI in the Amazon
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Apaporis, Colombia: the sacred shelter was saved of being mine
Colombia’s Constitutional Court did not allow a Canadian company could take gold from a luxuriant natural park in the Amazon, home to ancient indigenous communities.
From Medellin to America: The gold route in Colombia
Between 2010 and 2014 Colombia exported 310 tons of gold. OjoPúblico found that over 70% of this volume was destined to US companies, mainly Republic Metals Corporation and the Metalor group.
Photojournalism: Notes on a journey through the Caqueta River
The jungle that unites and separates Colombia with Brazil is a territory that lives on their own. A journalist traveled for three weeks by the river that connects the two countries, to tell how people live in this forgotten border.
Book on illegal mining in five countries of the Amazon: Routes of Illegal Gold
Publication presents research conducted in Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru about illegal mining, gold trading and the destiny of this metal whose extraction is causing serious damage to the forests of the Amazon.
Colombia: Alarm for high levels of mercury in Amazonian ethnic groups
It is the highest level of intoxication that scientists have found in Colombia. According to toxicologist Jesus Olivero, the situation is so worrying that even the survival of these indigenous peoples would be at stake.
Colombia: Caqueta and Guaviare, firsts to receive support from Norway against deforestation
They are the firsts regions to be supported as they correspond to the departments that have more deforestation, said the Minister of Climate and Environment of Norway, Tine Sundtoft.
Colombia, Brazil and Peru coordinate joint efforts to combat illegal logging
There is greater awareness of the impacts of illegal logging, deforestation and wildlife trafficking, which affects our forests and impact on native communities, habitats and the economy, said a Peruvian authority.
Mining in Colombia: blow to the mining policy of Santos
The Colombian State Council temporarily suspended mining strategic areas, in which in 2012 the government froze the extraction of natural resources to, then, auction the right to do that.
FARC forced to shed 200 000 oil barrels in the Putumayo roads
Alleged FARC fighters forced drivers of 19 tankers carrying fuel oil to spill it on the road, in the village of La Cabana, near the town of Puerto Asis.