Restoring the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta: Reversing a Century of Colombian Tragedy
Can science and tradition finally help heal the region’s peoples and bring balance to its biodiversity-rich waters and mangrove forests? This article was originally published by The Revelator When I visited the floating palafito fishing village of Nueva...
Traditional Colombian fishers fight for their rights and protection of vital wetlands
Interconnected socio-ecological issues threaten the ecosystems of the Mompós Depression Wetlands and the traditional fishing communities who rely on and safeguard them This article was originally published as a Climate Home News special feature, with support from the...
Páramos at Risk: The Interconnected Threats to a Biodiversity Hotspot
The pressures of climate change and human land use could lead to the disappearance of unique biodiversity and vital ecological services. DANIEL HENRYK RASOLT This article was originally published by The Revelator On a recent, pre-pandemic journey to the High Andes of...
Turning the Tide on Large-Scale Hydropower
In Colombia, activists and scientists are boosting mega-dam resistance by showing the cumulative impacts of these destructive projects. DANIEL HENRYK RASOLT This story was originally published by Earth Island Journal Miller Dussán is one of those rare people who...
Guardians of the Forest: Can Securing Indigenous Land Rights Help Combat Climate Change and Prevent the Next Pandemic?
This article was originally published online and then in print by Terralingua - Langscape Magazine Traditional Indigenous territories are complex, adaptable, and resilient socio-ecological systems that contain the majority of the world’s biocultural diversity. But can...
Colombia’s Dynamic Rivers: Integrated Interpretations and the Rights of Nature
Integrated interpretations of rivers as vital and interconnected living and evolving entities have extensive practical application — from their revered preservation throughout Indigenous territories, to modern adaptations of holistic Indigenous worldviews, to advances...
‘They Cannot Keep Us Silent’
In the paramos of the Colombian Andes, Indigenous leaders face persecution as they defend the rights of people and the environment. DANIEL HENRYK RASOLT This story was originally published by Earth Island Journal. Version en español Maria Pito has dedicated her life...
From a Vibrant Past to a Desolate Future: La Guajira and the Wayuu Tribe of Colombia
La Guajira is a dry and windy peninsular desert region between Northeast Colombia and Northwest Venezuela. The striking landscape has been harsh and borderline uninhabitable for many thousands of years. The southernmost parts of the peninsula border the...
The Delusion and Impacts of Hydropower
Touted by many renewable energy and sustainable development proponents as an important solution to the interconnected challenges of climate change and poverty, the reality of hydropower is far more complex. Not all hydropower is created equal. The efficiency of...
Critically Endangered Colombian Glaciers Face Extinction
Tropical mountain glaciers are rapidly melting around the world (up to 99% are in South America), but those that remain in Colombia could be entirely gone before 2050. Colombia has six remaining designated glaciers, in four distinct glacierized areas. The four areas...