A worldwide acknowledgement of the effect of the current climate crisis pushes South American countries to look beyond coal as a means of energy.

The Fifth Commission of the Colombian House of Representatives recently approved an initiative which would ban single-use plastics.

President Iván Duque and Environmental Minister Carlos Eduardo Correa announced the total prohibition of shark fishing in Colombia.

Conservationists’ efforts in protecting endangered species and biodiversity in the forests of Ecuador focus on creating protected wildlife reserves.

November 29th is the International Day of the Jaguar, a day to commemorate and bring attention to the great feline that lives in the Amazon and surrounding areas in Brazil and Peru.

OEFA fined Tamshi SAC approximately 36 million dollars for deforestation and ordered the definitive halt of all cocoa producing operations.

Venezuelan oil spills have damaged wildlife and human communities off the Carabobo and Falcon coasts.

Marina Silva is an Afro-Brazilian woman of indigenous descent and former Minister of the Environment.

Macaws used to inhabit the areas surrounding the Iberá Park, but they went extinct for 187 years.

The disablement of 72 kilometers of illegal roads in Caquetá sparks discussion of the increased deforestation to make way for roads and cattle ranching and how its driving climate change.