Colombian President Gustavo Petro has stirred up a decades-old border controversy with Peru by accusing it of fully annexing ...

The island of Santa Rosa sits in the Amazon River between Colombia and Peru, with Lima recently naming it a district.

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

About two dozen police officers, government officials and a data specialist sat side by side in a command center in northern ...

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 ...

Colombia lost forest cover in the fragile Amazon part of the country in 2024 which was much higher than in 2023 which had the ...

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 ...

Colombia reports 33% drop in deforestation in early 2025, with major progress in Amazon parks Visible deforestation from illegal mining surrounds the Quito River, near Paimado, Colombia, Sept. 23 ...

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 ...

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