Putumayo River News Today

Richard Evans Schultes braved malaria and worse to study Indigenous medicine. Now a new generation of scientists wants to finish his work.

“In this park, there are many complications, because if an official begins environmental work with a community leader for some time, no one knows whether he will be able to continue because he might be murdered or have to leave the area,” said a local source who is very familiar with the work in the […]

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As the price of coca has slumped, the rural families who depend on the shrub are wondering how they’re going to get by

Noralba Galvis usually returns home to her village in the Colombian jungle with fresh supplies of rice, meat, salt and other foods stuffed into bags. But…

The 9th Manatee Release took place on Tuesday, June 27 at Tapaje Lagoon, located in the Tamshiyacu Tahuayo Communal Regional Conservation Area. This momentous

Lucía lives in Peru, in one of more than 50 indigenous communities along the Putumayo, an Amazonian river that marks the border between Peru and Colombia. She has a banana plantation on the Colombian side of the river, which she has not visited in months out of fear of Los Sinaloa, an armed group of […]

Despite the need to help stabilize the Middle East and recover fromrecent natural disasters, the United States should not reducesupport for Plan Colombia at this time. Colombia is an importantSouth American trade partner and democratic linchpin, andcontinuing this partnership will sustain stable markets for U.S.businesses and reduce the regional instability caused bylawlessness and narcoterrorism.

On March 1, 2008, the Colombian military eliminated a key leader ofthe Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia in a raid on a camp inneighboring Ecuador. The incident occurred at a time when Congressmoved to delay indefinitely a vote on a free trade agreement withColumbia, a U.S. ally.

One of the world’s largest sustainable development agencies has worked with energy companies to quash opposition and keep oil flowing, even in sensitive areas.