Luke Taylor
@lukesttaylor
Journalist covering Latin America from Bogotá, Colombia.
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Haiti's🇭🇹healthcare system on verge of collapse as gang warfare rages on. Only a single hospital in Port-au-Prince remains open, with others devoid of staff as patients look for care and the dead pile up, by Luke Taylor theguardian.com/global-develop… via The Guardian
‘It is simply best not to get pregnant’ -- Women left terrified as Haiti’s🇭🇹maternity services collapse. Delivering a baby was already risky, but a surge in gang violence has forced clinics and hospitals to close, by Luke Taylor theguardian.com/global-develop… The Guardian #GlobalHealth
🌳"In the last 6 years we have lost more than half a million hectares of forest. We are at a point of no return.” ⚖️“The environment has become a bargaining chip” 🪓“Nature is being put in the middle of the conflict” theguardian.com/world/2024/apr… Luke Taylor
Colombian Amazon deforestation surges as armed groups tighten grip Confusing times in Colombia Last week headlines: Deforestation down 2023 Now: Deforestation up 2024 Why? Armed groups control over the Amazon Fundación para la Conservación y el Desarrollo,Luke Taylor,Global Forest Watch theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…
Bogotá, the city that shuts out cars every week. Born out of an anti-car protest in 1974, the Colombian capital closes many roads to cars every Sunday, leaving them free for bikes, skates and pedestrians, by Luke Taylor theguardian.com/environment/ar… via The Guardian Brent Toderian
#UrbanHealth #Ciclovia How to reduce by 13 times the polluting particles in the air? And street noise levels seven times lower? Open Streets to People and close them to cars. Fascinating article by Luke Taylor for UK's @Guardian on Bogota's experience. bit.ly/3V6F3F8
Exercise classes, computer skills and the chance to chat: how Bogotá is changing the lives of unpaid carers, by Luke Taylor theguardian.com/global-develop… via The Guardian Canadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence #caregiving #eldercare
“This is the right program, tackling the right set of challenges, at exactly the right time – and that’s why cities everywhere are watching closely." James Anderson on Alcaldía de Bogotá's Bloomberg Philanthropies’s Global Mayors Challenge work by Luke Taylor @Guardian: theguardian.com/global-develop…
Venezuela’s universities and academics were leaders in LATAM, but sadly these are also victims of chavismo and Nicolás Maduro’s scorch earth policies. ➡️Luke Taylor: ‘Afraid to talk’: researchers fear the end for science in Venezuela nature.com/articles/d4158…
“.@HRW says that up to 30% of Haitian gang members are now children forced into illegal activities as armed soldiers or spies or exploited for sex.” Luke Taylor for The Guardian: theguardian.com/global-develop…
A Colombian warlord became the Amazon rainforest’s most unlikely protector. Now he is cutting it down By Luke Taylor theguardian.com/environment/20…
The Amazon teetering on edge of climate tipping point Deforestation has pushed the Amazon to edge of tipping point Historical carbon sink, the Amazon released more carbon during drought & fires 2015-18 Repeat in 2024? newscientist.com/article/245387… Global Forest Watch,Amazon Conservation,Planet
Mostly disappointment and plenty of disagreement at COP16 in Cali but one "big, big win" as a new plan to pay for wildlife conservation emerges - nature.com/articles/d4158… Yadvinder Malhi Prof Nathalie Seddon, Oxford Amber Hartman Scholz Manuel Pulgar Vidal Simon Zadek Brian O'Donnell
Esto es el Parque Nacional Natural Serranía de la Macarena, en nuestra Amazonia. (La foto y las siguientes son de Catalina Sanabria)
ARTICLE by Luke Taylor on the Maduro-ELN partnership that is wreaking havoc in Colombia & helping the ELN to become richer & stronger in Venezuela: “It’s not just that the government is turning a blind eye. They are partners” says Cristina Burelli SOS Orinoco theguardian.com/world/2025/jan…