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Colombia Amazon park deforestation surge

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2026-07-29 07:46 UTC → 2026-07-30 14:17 UTC · added removed

In July 2026 Colombia’s incoming environment minister Fabio Arjona highlighted a sharp increase in warned that forest loss across in the country’s nation’s National Natural Parks, reporting that deforestation rose Parks had more than doubled, rising from 4,682 ha in 2023 to 11,544 ha in 2024 – a 146.5 % jump. The minister attributed the rise to 2024. He blamed expanding cattle ranching, illegal road construction and mining, especially in Amazon parks such as Tinigua, Sierra de La Macarena, Paramillo, Puinawai, Río Puré and Chiribiquete, and announced plans to pledged a review of conservation policy and bolster stronger state presence. A week later, Greenpeace Colombia released satellite‑based figures Colombia’s satellite analysis for 2025 showing confirmed a continued upward trend, reporting 8,896 ha of forest cleared in across three key Amazon parks—Sierra parks – Sierra de La Macarena (4,973 ha), Serranía de Chiribiquete (≈2,600 (≈2,060 ha) and Tinigua (1,863 ha). Since 2013 the three parks have lost about 95,867 ha, roughly 14‑15 % of each park’s area. The NGO linked the ongoing loss to uncontrolled cattle ranching and noted highlighted gaps in a cattle‑traceability system approved in 2024, calling for urging stricter enforcement of the new protection law. A follow‑up briefing in late July added that Tinigua alone had lost 48,025 ha (about 23 % of its surface) since 2013. The Colombian Institute for Agricultural Research recorded 9,392 cattle in Tinigua and 7,510 in Sierra de La Macarena in 2024, activities deemed incompatible with park protection. Across the entire national‑park system, 137,289 ha were cleared between 2013 and 2024, with roughly 77 % of that loss concentrated in five parks, including the three cited above. Greenpeace reiterated calls for urgent measures, a functional livestock traceability system, and stronger law enforcement to halt further deforestation.

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