BOGOTA, Colombia -- Global environmental leaders gathered Monday in Cali, Colombia, to assess the world's plummeting biodiversity levels and commitments by countries to protect plants, animals and ...

South of Bogotá, the Sumapaz Páramo unfolds across Colombia’s central highlands as one of the largest alpine moorland ...

The United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia (UNVMC), with support from the Climate Security Mechanism, convened a high-level side event during the 2024 UN Biodiversity Conference, also known ...

Colombian agronomist Javier Gereda gestures proudly towards the sturdy bean plant and bright green seedlings he has spent the ...

A group of researchers discovered four new tarantula species in a largely uncharted “biodiversity hotspot” in the Colombian Pacific region. The discovered spiders are called Ummidia solana, Melloina ...

Colombia will no longer approve new oil or large-scale mining projects in its Amazon biome, which covers 42% of the nation’s territory, according to a Nov. 13 statement by its environment ministry.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and partners launched a new white paper, From Silos to Synergies, capturing ...

Suriname’s government has pledged to permanently protect 90% of its tropical forests, a move conservationists say is among the most ambitious commitments to climate and biodiversity ever made by an ...

A new study finds that Afro-descendant communities in four Amazonian countries are linked to lands with high biodiversity and 29-55% less deforestation compared with protected and unprotected areas.

Panama City-Montreal – Amid a mix of celebration and caution, Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) made important progress and ...