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 ...

Colombia's deforestation rate jumped by 43%, mostly in the Amazon, marking a dramatic reversal from the previous year's decrease. Concurrently, escalating global trade tensions saw new tariffs imposed ...

According to the environment ministry, of the 107,000 hectares (about 264,403 acres) deforested in Colombia in 2024, 68,000 hectares (about 168,032 acres) were in the Amazon.

Deforestation in 12 of Colombia's national parks in the Amazon during the first quarter of 2023 fell drastically to 398 hectares (3.98 square kilometers), from 9,260 hectares (92.6 square ...

Deforestation in Colombia's Amazon region is forecast to have declined by 25% to 35% in 2023, Environment Minister Susana Muhamad said on Monday, while warning that evidence shows that destruction ...

Since then, women-led social, cultural and environmental organisations have increased their presence in Colombia's Amazon region, which in 2019, accounted for 62 percent of the national ...

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 ...