In Colombia, Vélez noted, some 43 oil blocks and 286 mining requests had currently not yet broken ground in various parts of the Amazon
Con esta medida sin precedentes, el Gobierno del Cambio da un paso histórico para proteger más de 483.000 km² del bioma amazónico —el 42% de
With this unprecedented move, the Government of Change takes a historic step to protect more than 483,000 km2 of the Amazon biome — 42% of the national territory and 7% of the great South American Amazon — and calls on the countries of the region to join in an Amazon Alliance for Life.
This declaration makes Colombia the first country in the region to lead the protection of its entire Amazon territory, ratifying its leadership in the conservation of the jungle as a power of life.
