More than 350 environmental activists have been killed since 2018 in Colombia, an NGO report said Wednesday, as the country played host to the world's biggest nature protection conference.

COP16 host country Colombia has put the inclusion of Indigenous and traditional communities at the center of its agenda in Cali.

Thousands of miners and small-scale farmers protested Tuesday in Colombia against plans by the government, currently hosting a UN biodiversity summit, to declare protected zones in areas where they make their livelihoods.