
By Oliver Griffin
BOGOTA, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Funding worth $70 million for environment and conservation projects from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have been frozen in Colombia after President Donald Trump moved to gut the organization, the Andean country's environment minister said on Thursday.
"The main impact will be in the Amazon," Colombia's Environment Minister Susana Muhamad told journalists in Bogota. Colombia loses hundreds of square kilometers of forest to deforestation each year, mostly in the country's Amazon region.