The Indigenous guardians shielding Colombia’s Amazon

Mongabay
Jun 26, 2025, 3:50 pm184 ptsTrendingTop
In early February, in downtown Bogotá, Colombia, Luis Alfredo Acosta recited a line in a book from memory: “I am from the rainforest because I smell like the rainforest; I smell like the mountains. And when I smell like the mountains and I smell like the trees, I can touch the forehead of a wild deer in the…

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