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8 projects · 8 organizations
Protects the critically endangered cotton-top tamarin by conserving and reconnecting Colombia's tropical dry forest.
A Bogotá social enterprise melts down plastic waste into Lego-like bricks that assemble into low-cost, durable classrooms and homes.
Colombia's leading bird conservation NGO protects a cloud forest reserve ranked the most irreplaceable protected area on Earth.
A Colombian NGO leads science and surveillance for Malpelo, a remote Pacific island sanctuary that hosts hundreds of migratory hammerhead sharks.
Fundación Colombianitos uses football, play and life-skills education to steer children from Colombia's most violence-affected communities away from conflict, addiction and recruitment.
Every Sunday and public holiday, Bogotá shuts down more than 138 kilometers of major roads to cars, turning them over to roughly 1.5 million cyclists, runners, walkers and skaters.
Fourteen community-elected guardians from the Chocó rainforest co-represent the Atrato River's legal rights after mercury from illegal mining poisoned it.
Sixty families in Colombia's most deforested department are raising native stingless bees as a sweeter, forest-friendly alternative to cattle ranching and coca.