Colombia’s government has reported a sharp overall rise in deforestation in the country’s Amazon rainforest for last year, ...

Colombia's government said on Thursday that deforestation in the South American country increased as much as 43% in 2024 ...

BOGOTA (Reuters) -Deforestation in Colombia surged last year, according to data from the country's environment ministry said ...

Deforestation in Colombia surged last year, according to data from the country’s environment ministry said on Thursday, as ...

Colombia’s oil industry faces growing outrage over decades of environmental destruction and human rights abuses in the Amazon ...

Deforestation in Colombia spiked by 43% in 2024, primarily affecting the Amazon region. This rise was attributed to forest fires exacerbated by climate change-induced droughts, according to ...

From the air, the forests in Putumayo, Colombia’s southwestern Amazonian department, look scarred. Light brown lines snake ...

Deforestation in Colombia surged by 43% last year, destroying 113,608 hectares, mainly in the Amazon. The increase came after a 36% drop in 2023. Factors include forest fires, land-grabbing, livestock ...

Some 1.86 million hectares of Colombia's Amazon were deforested between 2001 and 2021, according to the government, and Crisis Group said in a 2021 report that staffing is well below best practice.

Colombia's geographical presence on the Amazon is tiny, but its efforts at conservation and the protection of native peoples both loom large on the international landscape.

Some 113,608 hectares were destroyed in 2024, largely in Colombia's Amazon region. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more ...