Down a dirt track in Colombia, deep in a forest ... The illegal trade in wild flora and fauna is the fourth-most profitable illicit business in the world, with annual revenues of $23 billion ...

Chiribiquete National Park, the largest protected area in Colombia, is the confluence point of four ... constituting itself as an interaction scenario in which flora and fauna diversity and endemism ...

The proposal, submitted to a UN conference on biodiversity this week, calls for "funga" to be granted a global legal consideration distinct from flora and fauna, and experts say this could change ...