‘If we see you again, we kill you’: how a Colombian wildlife hotspot turned into a death zone

S tanding on her wooden canoe, a machete in her hand, Yuly Velásquez hacks away at reeds matted with blackened sludge. Close by, a burst oil pipe has released a slick of crude into the in Barrancabermeja, Colombia’s oil city, choking the water and its wildlife. With its swamps, lagoons and forests,...

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