Colombia: Govt Rushes to Save National Park from Rampant Deforestation

Aug 16, 2018 | Maria Fernanda Lizcano, Mongabay
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“Territories are like books: they can be in front of you, but if you do not read them you will never understand them,” said Juan Carlos Clavijo about Tinigua National Natural Park, one of Colombia’s protected areas located between the municipalities of La Uribe and La Macarena in the Meta region. This year, Tinigua took center stage when the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies (also known by its acronym in Spanish, Ideam) revealed that the park lost more than 5,600 hectares of its tree cover to deforestation activities in the first three months of 2018.