Issue Mar 08-14 2023: Colombia is the second most diverse country on the planet, with more than 50,000 registered species and around 31 million hectares of protected land, equating to 15% of the country’s national territory.

Issue Mar 01-07 2023: Peru lost four million hectares of natural vegetation. MapBiomas, a data collection network on land use, discovered that the diverse Peruvian ecosystems have lost vegetation between 1985 and 2021.

Issue Mar 01-07 2023: The Carrera Séptima (Seventh Route) project, a proposal put forward by the Mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López, has “aroused serious resistance” from varied sectors of the city’s society over the last few years.

Issue Mar 01-07 2023: On Thursday, March 2, the Jornal Nacional, the main TV news program of Rede Globo, a big Brazilian television network, dedicated more than five minutes to attack the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) which occupied three areas of the Suzano Papel e Celulose company, in Bahia, to report environmental

Issue Mar 01-07 2023: Traditionally, jobs in the “maritime sector” are seen as jobs for male workers.

Issue Feb 22-28 2023: John Kerry, U.S. special presidential envoy for the climate, journeyed to Brazil’s capital, Brasília, to discuss how the two countries will confront the climate crisis, illegal logging, and an energy transition.

Issue Feb 22-28 2023: Nicaragua’s “reforestation program” is good for the environment.

Issue Feb 22-28 2023: Bogotá’s Ministry of Environment issued a series of recommendations to citizens because poor air quality persists in Colombia’s capital.

Issue Feb 15-21 2023: In recent weeks, hydrocarbons have captured the attention in the energy transition debate in Colombia, a country that receives 87% of regional royalties from its revenues in the oil and coal industries.

Issue Feb 15-21 2023: Venezuela’s environment ministry announced that it has begun a reforestation project in areas affected by illegal mining, focused on three national parks: Canaima (Bolívar), Yapacana (Amazonas), and Caura (between Bolívar and Amazonas departments).