If you liked this story, share it with other people. PUERTO GUZMÁN, Putumayo, Colombia — Duberney López Martinéz was only 13 when he joined the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 2003.

It also supports local communities. Nonprofit launches game-changing project in pristine rainforest: 'Lifelines' first ...

AFP is republishing this story which has been selected by the agency's chief editors as one of the best of the week In Colombia's southern Guaviare department, on the doorstep of the Amazon, cattle ...

With ritual chants and plumes of smoke, an indigenous leader performed an ancient ceremony to bless the community-run fruit ...

A small team in a remote corner of Colombia is surveying every tree in an effort to better understand how much planet-warming carbon the Amazon actually stores. A small team in a remote corner of ...

Colombia's pledges to stem rising deforestation and protect its Amazon rainforest go "hand in hand" with the government's ...

A new lawsuit asks Colombia to recognize that jaguars, military macaws and the nation’s tropical dry forest have legal rights to “life, health and integrity.” The case is the latest in the “rights of ...

It’s mid-afternoon along Medellín’s Avenida Oriental, a traffic-clogged road that scythes through the heart of the second-largest Colombian city, and Nicolas Pineda is crouched down on his haunches as ...