Half a Million Hectares, Formalized: What Colombia’s Amazon Land Titling Does, and What It Cannot Do Alone

by | Sep 11, 2026 | Colombia, Deforestation, Gold Mining & Garimpo, Indigenous Sovereignty, Investigation, Land & Territorial Rights, Oil and Gas Pressure

In late January 2026, Colombia’s National Land Agency (Agencia Nacional de Tierras, ANT) announced that it had formalized 521,492 hectares of the Colombian Amazon as Indigenous resguardos, across five departments: Amazonas, Putumayo, Caquetá, Guaviare and...
The Gold of Abandonment and the Nukak: How Guainía’s Mining Frontier Presses on a People Already Facing Extinction

The Gold of Abandonment and the Nukak: How Guainía’s Mining Frontier Presses on a People Already Facing Extinction

by | Aug 15, 2026 | Colombian Amazon Focus, Deforestation, Gold Mining & Garimpo, Illegal Roads and Infrastructure, Indigenous Sovereignty, Indigenous Territories and Rights, Investigation, Mercury Contamination

A Nukak camp on cleared ground in the Colombian Amazon, May 2026. Photograph by CAJ Staff Photographer. In this reportJump to a sectionWhat the reporting shows in GuainíaThe people the article does not mentionWhere the frontier meets the Nukak: a corridor through...
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