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An innovative new study featuring the methodological use of machine learning algorithms, published in Nature magazine, has revealed that more than 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) of Amazonian Rainforest were cut down to make way for illicit activities between 1985 and 2019. The results of the analysis of the 34-year time frame showed that […]
This report is part of a collaboration between Mongabay Latam and Rutas del Conflicto. The departments of Caquetá and Guaviare, in southern Colombia, are covered in dense forest where for years entry was forbidden to most people. Groups engaged in the decades-long war against the government prohibited access to these areas, and only a few researchers were […]
Settlers invading, deforesting Colombian national parks ‘at an unstoppable speed’
Colombia’s Tinigua National Natural Park is experiencing one of the highest levels of deforestation of any such protected area in the country, and has lost more than a quarter of its primary forest since 2002.
Sources say this deforestation is happening due to settlers who are illegally invading and establishing roads, settlements and farms in protected forest – and clearing it in the process.
Other national parks and Indigenous territories in the Colombian Amazon are also experiencing incursions.
Sources say they are happening at such a scale that the government has been unable to effectively stop it.