After developing 300 studies, Colombia has established one of its most unknown public policies, the Programa Nacional Para la Conservación de las Serpientes Presentes en Colombia, which is directed to study all the existing snake species living throughout the country.

Environmentalist, academic, and politician from Catalonia, Spain, Joan Martínez Alier visited Bolivia recently and chatted about the importance of searching for alternatives to mining.

A 1992 Panamanian law, promoting reforestation over a 25-year period, will see its benefits expire at the end this year.

Washed up onto the shores of the Uruguayan resort town of Punta Colorada, two large dead sea turtles were discovered recently.