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| COLOMBIAN ENVIRONMENT STATS: |
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Areas under protection
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101 |
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[45th of 146]
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Biodiversity richness
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1 |
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[49th of 53]
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Carbon efficiency
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0.75 CO2 emissions/$ GDP |
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[96th of 141]
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CO2 Emissions
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63,998.4 |
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[42nd of 178]
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Coral reefs > Area
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940 sq km |
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[17th of 28]
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Current issues
deforestation; soil and water quality damage from overuse of pesticides; air pollution, especially in Bogota, from vehicle emissions |
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Ecological footprint
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1.9 |
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[74th of 141]
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Endangered species protection
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83.3% |
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[50th of 141]
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Forest area > % of land area
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54.73 % of land area
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[31st of 195]
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Forest area > sq. km
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607,280 km²
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[13th of 195]
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Known mammal species
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359 |
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[10th of 145]
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Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999
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17,369 |
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[40th of 199]
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Protected area
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9 |
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[46th of 147]
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SO2 emissions per populated area
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240 thousand metric tons/squ |
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[93rd of 141]
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Threatened species
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119 |
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[13th of 158]
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Threatened species > Mammal
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35 |
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[17th of 160]
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Water > Availability
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45.56 thousand cubic metres |
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[11th of 141]
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Water > Freshwater pollution
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0.03 tons/cubic km |
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[67th of 69]
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Water pollution, wood industry > % of total BOD emissions
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1.01 %
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[61st of 114]
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Wildness
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48.26% |
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[22nd of 141]
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SOURCES: World Resources Institute; ; Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center; World Resources Institute. 2003. Carbon Emissions from energy use and cement manufacturing, 1850 to 2000. Available on-line through the Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT) at Washington, DC: World Resources Institute; World Atlas of Coral Reefs accessible via United Nations Environment Program; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Living Planet Report 2000, Gland, Switzerland: 2000, and Redefining Progress.; Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, Report on National Reports Required Under Article VIII, Paragraph 7(a), of the Convention, Eleventh Meeting of the Conference of the Parties, Gigiri, Kenya, April 2000; World Development Indicators database; Gregg Marland, Tom Boden, and Bob Andres, University of North Dakota, via net publication; Jacaranda Atlas; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Special Report on Emissions Scenarios, Data Version 1.1, B1Illustrative Marker Scenario with model IMAGE; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, WaterGAP 2.1B, 2001 via ciesin.org; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001 (for BOD emissions)and Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, WaterGap 2.1, 2000 (for data on waterquantity). via ciesin.org; Wild Areas Project (WAP), joint Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and CIESIN project to map the lastwild places on the earth's surface. via ciesin.org
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