Choco (Colombia)

Colombia extradites drug lord to U.S.

BOGOTA, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- Colombia extradited 45-year-old drug trafficker Jorge Ivan Urdinola Perea, alias "La Iguana," to the United States on Tuesday. Urdinola Perea, wanted by a court in Florida, was transferred from a...

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REDD in Colombia: using forests to finance conservation and communities in Colombia's Choco, a...

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD), a climate change mechanism proposed by the U.N., has been widely lauded for its potential to simultaneously deliver a variety of benefits at multiple scales. But...

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Using forests to finance conservation in a former war zone: Colombia's Choco

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD), a climate change mechanism proposed by the U.N., has been widely lauded for its potential to simultaneously deliver a variety of benefits at multiple scales. But...

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Cloudforest Conservation Programme, Ecuador

Working Abroad Projects - The aim of this programme is to help conserve a part of the Ecuadorian Cloud Forest by participating in tree planting, trail work, research activities, sustainable living and food production as well as...

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Colombia Sees Oil Production Rising Ahead of Drilling Round

Putumayo Basin, Colombia (Click to Enlarge) MARACAIBO, Venezuela (Dow Jones), Oct. 14, 2009 Colombia continues to drill for more oil and by next year production could return to its high-water mark reached in the 1990s above...

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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Charges Members and Associates of Colombian Guerilla Front...

Note: The following text is a quote: Manhattan U.S. Attorney Charges Members and Associates of Colombian Guerilla Front with Terrorism and Hostage-Taking of U.S. Citizen Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern...

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Hanging on, bearly

Unlike some of its ursine cousins, the Andean bear is not one to make a spectacle of itself. It is not particularly big. An male adult rarely gets much heavier than 400 pounds and 6 feet in length, and females are considerably...

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Colombian navy seizes 301 kg of cocaine

BOGOTA, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- The Colombian navy seized 301 kg of cocaine stashed in a boat near the San Juan River in the western province of Choco, authorities said Monday. The coastguard found 299 packages of cocaine in the...

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Biodiesel fuels displacement in Colombia

"Biofuels have become \'very in vogue\' ... we are doing a study on [biofuels in Colombia]\" -Ethel Sennhauser, Sector Manager for Agriculture and Rural Development in Latin America - World Bank Latin America Development...

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Declaraciones de Muriel Mining y de ONGs respecto al proyecto minero Mande Norte/Murindo [Colombia]

En mayo de 2009] El Centro de Informacion sobre Empresa y Derechos Humanos (CIEDH) invito a Muriel Mining a responder a la...declaracion de la ONG Colombia Solidarity Campaign que fue presentada ante el comite de derechos...

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