Tag archives for Colombia
Making Dreams Come Alive
Posted by KIKE CALVO of Photographer; Expert at National Geographic Expeditions on February 27, 2013 Guillermo Alfonso Castellanos Castro, a 24 year-old journalism student from Colombia, captured this photograph in Chaguani, a small village in Cundinamarca. It portrays a street teather company called ¨Nemcatacoa Teatro.¨ This photograph has been awarded the First Prize in Kike Calvo Photo Contest: Sandisk Latin American Edition. The photograph was selected from thousands of photo submissions from around…
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For 20 years, field scientists participating in Conservation International’s Rapid Assessment Program (RAP) have been exploring some of the world’s most abundant, mysterious and threatened tropical ecosystems; to date, they’ve discovered more than 1,300 species new to science.
Finding a Home for Dracula
Posted by Stuart Pimm on March 23, 2011 National Geographic scientist Stuart Pimm reports on the quest for Dracula, a particularly lovely orchid that flourishes in the cloud forests of the northern Andes of Colombia.
A report released by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has warned that at least 34 Colombian tribes face extinction due to continuing violence on their lands, Survival International said this week. The report found that, “In spite of new efforts by the state…the risk of physical or cultural disappearance remains, and in some…
A tiny Colombian primate with a distinctive punk-rock hairstyle is in imminent danger of extinction, according to conservation biologists at Walt Disney’s Animal Kingdom department of education and science. “The findings paint the clearest picture yet of a dwindling population at risk,” Walt Disney World said in a news statement about the research. Disney’s Wildlife Conservation Fund has worked to…
Can Colombia’s rich biodiversity escape to cooler altitudes?
Posted by Stuart Pimm on July 1, 2010 By Stuart Pimm Chingaza National Park, Colombia–Colombia didn’t qualify for the World Cup this year. You’d never know from the throngs of people around TVs everywhere I went in Bogota last week. (If you are not a football follower: Fans have to cheer for more than one team given the odds and the vagaries of…
Finding orchids in Colombia’s other rainforest
Posted by Stuart Pimm on November 17, 2009 Colombia has made impressive progress in declaring a large part of its Amazon rain forest protected for conservation. But there’s another rain forest in Colombia, the Chocó, on the Pacific side of the country. This forest teems with even more species than in the Amazon forest, but it is not as well protected. Conservation biologist…
Species of rain frog potentially new to science. Conservation International-Colombia/Photo by Marco Rada Ten amphibians believed to be new to science — including a spiky-skinned, orange-legged rain frog, three poison frogs and three glass frogs — have been found in Colombia’s mountainous Tacarcuna area of the Darien, near the border with Panama, Conservation International announced…
