The quest to explore Colombia’s untouched jungle
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There is a lot of beautiful places that weren't accesible a few years ago and you can go and visit nowadays, war indirectly has protected those places but ironically there are people deforesting those places now, the government is also trying to access mining and oil resources which can put these places in danger. I hope the international community can start looking how we can preserve those forests and all the species that they have.
I fear the "international community" is more likely to be the one eager to exploit those forests.
Your best bet is with the indigenous people, assuming they haven't been already genocided or mestizoized.
Those forests belong to the Colombian people, and they indirectly decide what happens to them through the electoral system.
Silly gringo question: can foreigners buy the land and lock it up as preserve or something similar?
There has been a dozen or so national parks in the Amazon that have been wholly abandoned due to FARC threats. War hasn't helped at all.
And that is how conservation is defeated.
I will forever remember taking the bus from Bogota to Pereira. The entire trip is filled with images of glorious beauty.
Colombia is a dream country.
I agree that crossing the mountains between Bogotá and Pereira is an incredible route. Very long, but if you go and have the time, it's in itself part of the holiday!
I tell nobody about the town her family is from or the surrounding area. It is breathtakingly beautiful, ecologically fragile, and my lived experience around the world is that there is no form of tourism that does not destroy what it touches.
I don't pretend to be able hold the forces at bay that will eventually pave paradise. But I do what I can not to embolden them.
If you'd be kind enough to satisfy my curiosity about the wonderful sounding place your wife's from, though, my email is in my profile :-) Perhaps I'll (very respectfully) visit there some time!
What if we took a different approach—fenced them off and left as is, untouchable by anyone for any purpose? What is the cost of unknown to science species or two, compared to environmental impact of scouring every inch of land to find something new?
Problem solved!
As I understand it, A rain forest is a tropical forest characterized by a dense canopy that blocks most sunlight from reaching the floor; it has relatively little undergrowth.
A jungle is a tropical forest without a dense canopy, and so has heavy undergrowth. This frequently exists on the edges of a rain forest or in other areas where storms, etc prevent the growth of a dense canopy.
Maybe "jungle" does not apply to much of this land in Colombia?