Colombia has enacted a landmark law requiring the cattle industry to trace livestock and prove beef supply chains are free ...

Colombia gained nearly 17,000 square kilometers of forest between 2001 and 2010 as forests recovered in mountainous regions in the Andes, reports a new study published in the journal PLoS One. The ...

More than half of Colombia’s territory is covered in forest, and the country is the second most biodiverse in the world, but suffers from widespread deforestation. The highest levels of deforestation ...

Colombia last more than 3 million hectares (12,000 square miles) of forest between 2001 and 2021, according to Environment Minister Susana Muhamad. The deforestation has been particularly devastating ...

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Norway, Germany and Britain said on Thursday they would spend up to $366 million over the next five years to help Colombia reduce deforestation in its vast Amazon ...

BOGOTA, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Incidents of forest fires in Colombia fell by almost 70% during the first 30 days of 2023 versus the year-earlier period, local advocacy group the Foundation for Conservation ...

Fires that contribute to deforestation spiked six-fold in Colombia in the year after an historic 2016 peace agreement ended decades of conflict between FARC guerrilla and government forces, according ...

Forest destruction in Brazil and Colombia fell "steeply" between 2022 and 2023, according to data from the University of Maryland's GLAD Lab that has been shared on the World Resources Institute's ...