Colombia · Environment
Key Facts
The instrument. Resolution 0961 of 2026, signed by the Environment Ministry on 4 August, published 5 August — three days before the new government took office.
The area. 483,283.55 km², about 42 percent of Colombia’s continental territory, across 61 municipalities in ten departments.
What stops. No new mining concessions and no new oil or gas contracts anywhere in the Amazon biome.








