Forest Fire Devastates World Heritage Site in Colombia’s Sierra Nevada

The World Heritage site of Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta in Colombia is being devastated by a wave of forest fire. The flames have burned at least 1,200 thousand hectares of the Biosphere Reserve covered with native forests and agricultural crops.

Fire brigades along with the Air Force are trying to douse the fire in that Caribbean massif, noted El Heraldo newspaper.

Sierra Nevada is also the largest coastal mountain formation of the planet, which surpasses the five thousand meters high. It is itself an isolated system of the Andes and habitat of indigenous peoples such as the Kogi, Arhuaco, Wiwa and kankuamos.
 
The fire started three days ago in the vicinity of Aracataca, Magdalena. However, the complicated land hampered the access of volunteers to the area to support the work of extinction within this scenario, reports NAM News Network.