Author: Gavin Haines / Source: Positive News
Colombia’s Serranía de Chiribiquete has been declared the world’s largest tropical rainforest national park. In news welcomed by conservationists around the world, the park was enlarged by 5,800sq miles in July, bringing its total size to 17,000sq miles.
The Serranía de Chiribiquete has one of the highest rates of biodiversity in the northern Amazon. It is home to thousands of species – many threatened – including jaguars, giant otters, giant anteaters, lowland tapirs, woolly monkeys, macaws (pictured) and the endemic Chiribiquete emerald hummingbird.
The park is also culturally rich: it houses one of the oldest hieroglyphic complexes in the Americas. More than 70,000 paintings – some more than 20,000 years old – can be found…
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