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In the first half of the 20th century, Mennonite communities fled Europe for South America and, over the intervening decades, established large colonies in Latin American countries such as Mexico, Argentina, Paraguay, Peru and Bolivia. In 2015, three colonies arrived in Colombia, attracting controversy due to deforestation for large-scale agriculture in protected areas and Indigenous […]
Mennonites said to deforest ancestral Indigenous land in Colombia
Environmental authorities and Indigenous groups accuse a Mennonite community, members of an Anabaptist Protestant sect, of destroying forests and polluting water sources in the Altillanura high plains of eastern Colombia.
Authorities say the Mennonites have burned 135 hectares (333 acres) of riverbank forest since arriving in the region in 2016.
Indigenous Sikuani communities say the Mennonites have taken over their ancestral lands and driven away the native wildlife and fish with their farming activities and intensive use of agrochemicals.
The Mennonite colony is one of many that left Mexico in recent years and settled in other Latin American countries, including Peru and Bolivia, where they have also been accused of environmental violations.
Trina Solar Vanguard trackers help Colombian plant reshape local energy market
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Trina Solar has made a significant contribution to the second-largest solar energy project in Colombia – 2,250 sets of trackers and 200,000 modules.
The Bosques de Los Llanos project, developed and managed by Trina, will reduce CO
2 emissions by 58,350 tons a year and provide power to 71,400 households.
Bosques de Los Llanos is the first PV project in Colombia to be financed under a non-recourse arrangement and, so highly regarded is the project, that the country’s President, Iván Duque Márquez, personally cut the ribbon at an opening ceremony at the end of January.