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.