environmental issues in colombia
There are many environmental issues in Colombia but deforestation is one of the major concerns. New environmental protection legisl ation was enacted in 1991, including the creation of specially protected zones, of which more than 200 were created in the early 1990s, mostly in forest areas and national parks. As a result of this charter, the Ministry of the Environment was established in 1993, but merged with the housing and drinking water division of the Ministry of Economic Development, Housing, and Potable Water in 2003. Current issues include deforestation resulting from lumber exploitation in the jungles of the mazon and the region of Chocó; illicit drug crops grown by peasants in the national parks ofSerranía de la Macarena and Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta; soil erosion; soil and water quality damage from contamination by the use of chemicals in the coca-refining process, spillage of crude oil into the local rivers as a result of...
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