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A conservation scientist enlists Colombia’s ex-guerrillas in a new cause: preserving their country’s biodiversity

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Rodrigo Pérez Ortega For more than 50 years, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) fought a civil war sparked partly by social inequities from the remote jungles of Colombia.

In 2016, FARC and the Colombian government signed a peace agreement. Suddenly, a question loomed: How to reincorporate 14,000 former combatants back into society?Jaime Góngora, a wildlife geneticist at the University of Sydney, saw an opportunity.

A native of Colombia, “I saw how many people were being impacted directly and indirectly by the conflict,” he says. But he also believed in the potential of conservation to give the ex‑combatants a new purpose.

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