Press releases

La mayor colección de huevos de Latinoamérica: un aporte al conocimiento e investigación de las aves del mundo

Colombia cuenta con un nuevo atlas de aves endémicas

Reporte Bio: nueva radiografía del estado de la biodiversidad en Colombia

Cámaras trampa registraron 13.396 imágenes de fauna en Colombia

Biodiversity in cities: how are Colombia's cities doing?

New protected area declared at Chocó: DRMI Siete Sabias

Study to propose actions on the management of hippopotamus in Colombia

The protected area of the Cuchilla del San Juan Regional Integrated Management District is expanded.

Colombia has a new National Strategy for the Conservation of Birds

The National Strategy for Bird Conservation ENCA 2030 takes flight at Colombia BirdFair

Endemic trees at risk of extinction

World Wildlife Day: for species conservation

International Day for the Protection of the World's Bears

New species of beetle discovered for Colombia

Urban green public spaces in the Aburrá Valley: a conservation challenge

Cave biodiversity: what caves hide in Colombia

Institute Humboldt selected to provide technical support for new global biodiversity assessment

Listening to protect forests

Colombia: the country of birds seeks to make this wealth a source of national pride

Expansion of the human footprint: a latent threat to bird habitat in Colombia

The fishes of the Rio Grande de la Magdalena: unique and endangered

'The Road to BiodiverCities', a regional meeting on urban nature management

Sport fishing is practiced in 80% of the Colombian territory

Institute Humboldt presents the Restoration Map of Colombia

Colombia ratifies its position as the most diverse country in butterflies with 3,877 species: according to new checklist of these insects

The Alexander von Institute Humboldt and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew launch the most complete catalogs of useful plants and fungi in Colombia.

Barranquilla Expedition: local knowledge, urban biodiversity and bioeconomy

MINCIENCIAS LAUNCHES THE FIRST SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF PRESIDENT GUSTAVO PETRO.

Páramos para la Vida: a national commitment to local and community conservation

Escazú Agreement, an ally to maximize conservation opportunities

New frailejon species in Colombia, 92 species and counting...

Instituto Humboldt presents a new digital tool for biodiversity management in the territories.

Food security for 80% of Latin America's rural population depends on subsistence hunting and fishing

The Colombian government and the World Economic Forum are committed to urban biodiversity as an opportunity for the transformation of the world's cities.

"Losing a single Andean condor is an environmental tragedy": Institute Humboldt

The race against the clock of three species of caimans in Colombia

Update of the red list of endangered mammals in Colombia is underway

Instituto Humboldt presents keys to local management of the páramos in Colombia

Biodiversity in the Colombian highlands: more than 300 species were recorded in the Tillavá river basin

Giant otter preying on an iguana sighted for the first time in Colombia

Top six threats to Colombia's unique freshwater crabs

In search of the pink dolphins and giant otters of the Meta

Begins a study of the plants and ancestral knowledge of the main yerberito of Bogotá

How pandemic confinement affected citizens' biodiversity records in Colombia

Bushmeat: the only alternative for survival for many rural and indigenous communities

Bojonawi: the little giant where the biodiversity of the Orinoquia flourishes

Pennsylvania: first female Andean bear to be tracked with GPS telemetry collar in Colombia

This was the first GPS telemetry tracking of an Andean bear in Colombia

Colombia, the country with the largest number of species of lizards of the genus Anolis

45% of Colombia's endemic trees and shrubs are at risk of extinction

Expediciones BIO presents the documentary 'El país de las Aves'.

Aliwa: the Amazon rainforest that emerged in a 30-million-year-old crater

How to create a nature-based business in Colombia?

From peasant to plant connoisseur: Sandra Medina's 23-year journey at the Institute Humboldt

Eight companies committed to saving Colombia's tropical dry forest

Call from Humboldt to protect felines in Colombian territory

Surviving forests around Bogotá shelter a great variety of plant species.

SOS from Instituto Humboldt for most endangered species in Colombia during Lent

Western forests of Antioquia, a hopeful refuge for the Andean bear

Women who made history with the first female bird expedition in Colombia

Update of information on hippopotamus in Colombia begins

This is what Colombia sounded like during the first coronavirus quarantine

Restoring strategic ecosystems, the Institute's commitment to the goal of 180 million trees Humboldt

Cauca Nariño and , the departments with the most birds in Colombia. Antioquia

Photo-trapping yields more than 20 thousand records of birds, mammals and reptiles in the middle Magdalena and Orinoquia

Freshwater stingrays: Colombian Amazon and Orinoquia may harbor more species than described

New data on the savanna tortoise or galápago llanero, a unique reptile of the Colombian-Venezuelan Orinocoquia

Community nurseries, allies to restore Colombia's moorlands

Oil palm: home to dung beetles in the Eastern Plains?

Wetlands: an amphibious treasure that survives in 26 percent of Colombia

The wetlands of La Mojana in the Colombian Caribbean are being reborn

Providence Vireo, one of the most recorded birds during the Black Crab expedition

Hummingbirds may have been affected by the sweeping passage of hurricane Iota in Providencia

The bats that managed to survive Hurricane Iota in Providence

Seabirds show their beauty in Providencia after the hurricane

One of the two native plant species that withstood Iota

Dry season, a risk for Providencia's forests

First findings on the nesting of two Andean highland hummingbird species

Providencia's only native snake recorded in Cangrejo Negro expedition

The three iconic fish of Providencia that did not suffer from the ravages of Iota

Lizards and frogs rule the roost in Providencia expedition

"Situation of the Fresh Water dry forest in Providencia is critical": Institute Humboldt

Providencia's endemic bird did not disappear due to hurricane Iota's attacks

The black crab has appeared in Providencia!

First study of cotton-top tamarin sounds in the wild

Colombia launches its first guide for nature tourism

Learn about the history of the U.S. native crab that invaded several high Andean areas of Colombia

Providencia's biodiversity is reborn after the passage of hurricane Iota

The before and after of Providencia's forests after the passage of hurricane Iota

Colombia closes 2021 with new frailejon species

Disoriented and heartbroken: learn about the effects of gunpowder on birds, a hopeful refuge for Andean bears

"Biodiversity mourns loss of yellow-eared parrot guardian": Institute Humboldt

This is how we can transform the planet with BiodiverCities

Lower Sogamoso river basin, habitat of 91 fish species

A unique porcupine in Colombia that disappears even without knowing it

Songs and behaviors of the northern montane cacique described for the first time in Colombia

How to restore moorlands affected by patula pine?

Serious deterioration of national biodiversity threatens life in Colombia

Humboldt introduces new miniature beetle for science

Deforestation threatens ecological connectivity of the Amazon piedmont, one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet