As Colombia’s parks face brutal deforestation, a firestorm of criticism has erupted over the country’s newly appointed director of national parks, Orlando Molano, who has no experience in ...

Today Colombia has 59 national natural parks (NNPs) that conserve the biodiversity of more than 17 million hectares and where 64.5% of the country's ecosystems are represented, as revealed in a ...

According to the minister of tourism, Santiago Rojas, this trend has been caused by new strategies to promote national parks as “unique experiences” which have made them an important sector of ...

“Tayrona is our Yellowstone,” says Julia Miranda, Colombia’s national parks director, of this varied landscape that extends from brilliantly white Caribbean beaches almost vertically up into ...

Authorities in central Colombia have closed six national parks amid fears that drought caused by weather phenomenon “El Niño” could spur forest fires. Environmental authorities in Cundinamarca, the ...

Overall, 28,000 acres are being cultivated in Colombia’s 49 national parks, compared with 11,000 acres only three years ago. But the destruction is worse than the figures would indicate ...

The declaration of the park, covering an area of 78,387ha of paramos (high grasslands), cloud forests, and sub-Andean forests, brings the total number of protected areas within Colombia's national ...

SAN JOSE DEL GUAVIARE, COLOMBIA — Nature photographer Aldo Brando saw a horrible beauty in the destruction visited upon Colombia’s national parks by outlaw coca growers. As his helicopter ...