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NEW OIL AND MINING PROJECTS BANNED FROM COLOMBIA PORTION OF THE AMAZON

Published: 2025-12-10 21:10:15 Last Updated: 2025-12-11 15:10:36

Although it makes up 40% of the South American nation, Colombia only has 6% of the Amazon rainforest. Colombia has declared that it will forbid new mining and oil operations in its section of the Amazon rainforest and intends to transform the region into a reserve for renewable natural resources in an effort to preserve its biodiversity, especially in light of climate change.
During the 30th session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), the announcement was made. 186,487 square miles of the Amazon ecosystem will be safeguarded by this project. Out of the nine nations that share the Amazon rainforest—Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana—Colombia is now the first to protect the entire rainforest inside its borders.
Colombia's minister of environment and sustainable development, Irene Velez Torres, stated, "Colombia has agreed to take the first step." The totality of Colombia's share of the Amazon biome has been declared a renewable natural resource reserve, making us the first nation in the Amazon basin to do so. As a result, 286 mining project applications and 43 oil project applications have been put on indefinite hold.

Additionally, Velez urged her other leaders in nearby nations to establish the Amazon Alliance for Life, or Alianza Amazación por la Vida. "Taking care of the Amazon is an ethical investment in the future of the region and of humanity, not an economic sacrifice," she continued. "Life has no boundaries, rivers have no boundaries, and there is only one rainforest."

To take effect, the initiative must still get past the bureaucracy. Any such measures must first be subject to a consultation with local groups, according to the Ministry of the Interior's Department of the National Authority for Prior Consultation. After all, it might have an impact on the 566 Indigenous groups who dwell in this region. However, the initiative is just the beginning of protecting the Amazon rainforest's natural resources and threatened species.

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