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By Laia Mataix Gómez San José del Guaviare, Colombia, Sep 5 (EFE).- Both in Colombia and abroad, Guaviare is infamous for deforestation and violence, but the southern-central department is fighting to preserve its biodiversity with innovative projects that show that it is possible to survive without cutting down the Amazon rainforest. “We have worked very …
By Laia Mataix Gomez San Jose del Guaviare, Colombia, Aug 29 (EFE).- Although the Colombian government and dissident rebel groups prohibit deforestation in the Guaviare department, the Amazon jungle that once covered nearly every inch of that south-central region is slowly being burned, cleared and transformed year after year into an immense cattle pasture. Perfect …
Indigenous knowledge about sustainability and conservation helps the Inírida flower trade to flourish in Colombia.
INÍRIDA, Colombia –– Carolina Mora Gaitan takes one of the striking-looking flowers from the blue bucket lying at her feet and shakes off the excess water. Using a toothbrush, she scrubs away any trace of dirt and proceeds to peel away an unsightly brown leaf with a pair of tweezers. Sitting opposite, her daughter-in-law mirrors […]
On an island in the estuary known as Lagoa dos Patos, in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state, an old lady kept a treasure in her fridge. For years, it held a gift she had received at her wedding decades earlier: beans and pumpkin seeds. “She said she was going to give me the seeds […]