The high price of peace in Colombia: deforestation in the Amazon

The high price of peace in Colombia: deforestation in the Amazon

Areas where the FARC guerrilla used to hold power in Colombia have faced record deforestation. Farmers cut down trees, burn land and plant grass for cows. Because, “what else can we do for a living here in the Colombian Amazon”? An intimate report from the heart of the felled forest in Caquetá.

2016 Nobel Peace Prize? Let’s give it to bicycles

2016 Nobel Peace Prize? Let’s give it to bicycles

  Bicycles as candidate for Nobel Peace Prize. Caterpillar, the radio programme broadcast on Rai Radio 2, known for the environmental initiative M’illumino di meno, is launching the Bike the Nobel campaign in order to present bicycles as a candidate for Nobel Peace Prize.   The programme, hosted by Massimo Cirri and Sara Zambotti, relaunched the idea