Colombia’s Indigenous guardians adapt as pressures mount on the ‘Heart of the World’

Mongabay
Sep 9, 2026, 3:00 am73 ptsTrending
RIOHACHA, Colombia — Amid the low slopes of a tropical dry forest, families from the Wiwa community of Gomke are building a new home. Their ancestral settlement lies higher on a lush mountain in the town of Dibulla, overlooking the Caribbean coast in Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Across this…

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