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Colombia creates landmark territory to protect uncontacted Indigenous groups
By Maxwell Radwin Colombia has created a first-of-its-kind territory meant to protect a group of Indigenous people living ...
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In Colombia, Amazon River's extreme drought falls hard on Indigenous communities
LETICIA, Colombia (AP) — Marciano Flores stood knee-deep in the Amazon River with the rest of his crew, ready to haul in a giant net as a man in a canoe circled in an attempt to drive fish their ...
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Amazon will invest in agricultural development in Colombia
The President of Colombia wrote on social networks that after natural areas were in commerce, the founder of the Amazon expressed interest in contributing to climate action policies and the ...
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About 5 million hectares of forests have been lost in Colombia in the last 30 years
The magnifying glass is mainly used in two departments of Colombia, Amazonas and Chocó. In the first, 65% of total deforestation in the country is found. In previous years, the Comptroller's ...
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Peru's Indigenous leaders raise concerns over oil and gas projects at a human rights hearing
Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon who are calling for the government to stop oil and gas projects in their territory took their case to an international human rights body on Tuesday.
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An eight mile wall of prehistoric art discovered in the Colombian Amazon
The eight-mile wall of art was created by the first humans of the Amazon some 12,500 years ago Prehistoric rock art discovered in Colombia is being hailed as the “Sistine Chapel of the ancients ...