Colombia's Newest Park Protects Rare Wildlife, Indigenous Peoples

Environment News Service, August, 2007 by staff"

BOGOTA, Colombia (ENS) — --> The government of Colombia has created a new national park for the protection of one of the greatest areas of biodiversity in the country, inhabited by such rare and endangered animals as the Andean bear, jaguar, puma and tapir.

The new park stretches from the lowlands of the Amazon Basin to the slopes of the Andean Mountains, covering 97,180 hectares, or 375 square miles.

A small corner of Colombia's new Serrania de los Churumbelos Auka Wasi National Park (Photo courtesy Environment Ministry of Colombia Environment, Air and Territorial Development Minister Juan Lozano Ramirez announced the creation of the Serrania de los Churumbelos Auka Wasi National Park in Bogota on Thursday.

"In the new national...

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