Main environmental problems in Colombia

During the last year 2018, 70% of deforestation that suffered the territory of Colombia was specifically in The Amazon jungle. The lung of the planet has been severely affected within the Colombian territory, where thousands of hectares of tropical forests are deforested in order to implement new monoculture and meadows areas to feed cattle. Here you can see more about the deforestation of the Amazon jungle.

Deforestation processes follow non -productive models, where infrastructure projects are also applied without an environmental license. On the other hand, the numerous Fire of the Northern Amazon of Colombia They occur as a strategy to expand the agricultural borders of the country and continue with illegal deforestation.

In these other ecology articles, we tell you what forest fires are and how they occur and the consequences of a forest fire.

Another of the main environmental problems in Colombia is that numerous anthropic activities (carried out by the human being) are responsible for the improper management of renewable and non -renewable resources, both in urban nuclei and in rural areas.

Bliss Anthropic pollution is reflected in environmental problems which entails the evil treatment of domestic wastewater (water pollution), the catastrophic vehicular and acoustic pollution in the cities; as well as the improper solid waste management and the use of these, and the salinization of soils (soil pollution).

Various national natural parks of Colombia denounce, year after year, the numerous activities of poaching and/or sports hunting, as well as the Illegal Flora and Fauna Traffic which is carried out within the protected areas.

Specifically, they denounce that almost 50% of the wood that Colombia markets with other countries is illegal, being the selective felling One of the main dangers suffered by the Colombian Amazon jungle.

As for fauna, animals from all groups (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish) are illegally killed or marketed, a violent and unnecessary practice that does not try to control the population of animal communities, but simply satisfy the cruelty of some human beings. In addition, this especially affects the species of endangered animals in Colombia.

The National Government of Colombia has the last word about the mining activities that develop in the soil and subsoil of the country. Day after day, numerous peoples and different Colombian regions struggle to prevent illegal practices of extractive industries dedicated to mining.

Mainly, open pit mining is responsible for the extraction of metals and precious stones of small, medina and large scale. These mining activities constantly put the ecological and cultural heritage of the territories in which the mines build.

In Colombia, during the last 25 years, at least 11 rangers have been violently killed while working taking care of natural and protected areas of the country. These murders occurred as a consequence of illegal business interests That they move huge amounts of money within the Colombian territory, such as drug trafficking, illegal mining and clashes between military, guerrillas and other criminal groups.

Apart from supposing a serious social and economic problem, this is also one of the problems suffered by the Colombian environment. It is common to find Shattered forest areas And really hit by violence and that especially affect the environment of Colombia, and the world, because they are areas that serve as biodiversity runners (connecting the species found in different habitats).

The environmental consequences involved in the exploitation of natural resources to obtain fuels are really invasive and devastating.

In Colombia, Fracking practice (hydraulic fracturing to extract gas and subsoil oil) and Oil palm farms (gender Elaeis) are the main activities used to obtain and generate biofuels. Both are the culprits of the exhaustion of the wealth of natural resources that we can find in the soils and subsoils of the Colombian territory.

Both mountain areas, and those in which mangroves, jungles and ocean coast predominate are victims of industrial activities (legal and illegal) that are launched year after year in Colombia.

In order to guarantee better infrastructure or a more prosperous activity and industrial economy, bridges, ports and roads are built on behalf of progress. A progress that endangers virgin ecosystems and rich in species of animals and plants (many of them still unknown to science). Discover more about Colombia’s ecosystems in this other article.

He Waste management and garbage Generated by the thousands of Colombian inhabitants is an environmental problem that has worried the country for years, especially in urban centers, where they estimate that by 2030 there will be not enough space to store 80% of the garbage generated.

Numerous measures focused on waste use as well as optimal management, have appeared in Colombia as strategies for the care of the planet.

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