Created in 1985, Pan de Azúcar National Park in the Antofagasta Region in Chile is federally protected land that is home to the 192 native species that inhabit the area.

The National Development Plan (PND) titled “Pact for Sustainability: Producing while conserving and conserving while producing” sets forth a vague plan for environmental action that neither specifies who is participating in the “pact” nor what is being produced or conserved in its action plan.

A recent publication on the humid and dry tropical lowland forests of Colombia and nine other countries in Latin America shows that 80% of species and 34% of the original forest composition can regenerate after only two decades following the abandonment of agricultural land.

An international team of scientists from Peru and the United Kingdom deployed 45 camera traps in the Sira Communal Reserve, part of the Oxapampa-Asháninka-Yánesha Biosphere Reserve.

The cloud forests of the central Andes, some of which can be found in the north of Ecuador, are among some of the most endangered habitats in the world.

Mexican officials have decided it’s time for an environmental contingency program.

The jungles of Orinoquía, the peaks of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the rainy Chocó region, and the verdant Andean mountains, are home to some 3,300 species of butterflies.

Deforestation is a complicated issue for Latin American countries, especially Ecuador, where deforestation destroys about 80,000 hectares per year.

Peru’s Ocucaje region of the Ica province is proving to be a paleontologist’s playground.

The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) indicated that the Sumidero Canyon and its inhabitants are at risk due to the environmental toll that limestone extraction and processing is taking on in the region.