The HALO Trust will clear landmines from almost 18,000 hectares in Colombia's Meta region so two Indigenous communities can return to and guard their land. The three-year project costs about $1 million.
Kew horticulturist Carlos Magdalena spotted an unfamiliar giant waterlily in an Instagram photo from Colombia. Five years later it has been named Victoria colombiana, and only 30 to 50 plants are thought to survive.
A team led by Penn State researchers documented 738 bee species in Colombia, including 246 never recorded there before, in the first annotated checklist of its kind for any country in the Western Hemisphere.
