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Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Cocaine, gold and meat': how Colombia's Amazon became big business for crime networks

Illegal road networks and armed groups are driving rapid deforestation and socio-environmental conflict across Colombia's Amazon, supplying international demand for illicit commodities.
fromConde Nast Traveler
4 months ago

Without USAID, Conservation and Tourism Projects Have Ground to a Halt

Four miles by foot into the Colombian Amazon, in war-torn Guaviare, a stunning prehistoric rock painting known as the "Sistine Chapel of the Ancients" stretches across a full eight miles of cliff face. The frieze, estimated to be about 12,500 years old, depicts massive ice age beasts thought to have once roamed South America, including mastodons and ground sloths the size of a car.
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