Evaluación del Impacto Ambiental de la Ganadería extensiva en Colombia.

Abstract

Extensive livestock farming in Colombia is increasing, widely affecting the environment, its impact can be seen mainly in the loss of biodiversity of species, both animal and plant, in atmospheric emissions, contamination of water resources and especially in the deterioration of the environment. I usually. The evaluation of these damages is the object of the present investigative work of bibliographic revision. To enter into context, the origins of this practice in the country are initially exposed, continuing with the description of the way in which extensive cattle ranching in Colombia is an activity that generates a negative environmental impact on different components of the environment, defining in the same way its consequences, to end with some potential solutions found in different studies.