Leading Colombian conservationists share their experiences working in the most dangerous country to fight for wildlife
Clockwise from top: environmental defenders Ángela Maldonado, Fernando Trujillo, Sandra Bessudo and Rosamira Guillen. Composite: Carlos Villalon, Charlie Cordero, Juan Barreto/AFP Getty ImagesPoliticians, conservationists and business people from around the world met last week to discuss how to save nature at the
He told me where to find the monkeys and contacted other Farc commanders so I could enter their towns. I was always on my own. I don’t represent a threat to anyone – I’m 160cm tall and weigh 52kg. To these people I am just a small woman trying to save monkeys. That was in 2001I have spent more than 20 years working in the Amazon, fighting the trafficking of wildlife, focusing on monkeys.
I have surveyed more than 84,000km of waterways in seven countries looking for river dolphins. Almost one year ago, we got 11 countries from across Asia and South America to sign a landmark treaty to protect river dolphins. AtMalpelo is an island 500km off Colombia’s Pacific coast. The first time I went there in 1987 I fell totally in love with it.
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