Colombia: Making Nature a Healing Place: Interview with Colombia’s Enilda Jiménez

Jun 11, 2025 | Manuel Fonseca
Mongabay
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The Gulf of Urabá, on the northwestern coast of Colombia, is a territory living in a constant social, economic and environmental struggle for existence. Biologically, Urabá is a complex biodiversity hotspot where the Pacific and Caribbean fuse into one. The migration flow between Central and South America and the Caribbean’s unique ecosystems, such as mangroves, estuaries, wetlands and rainforests, hosts an immense variety of fauna and flora threatened by accelerated agricultural expansion, illicit crops, fires and the mega construction of a $672 million port, Puerto Antioquia.