The beauty of bouquets comes with a cost to the cloud forests of Colombia, the largest exporter of flowers and foliage to the ...

Allow Richard McColl, owner of remote Mompox hotel La Casa Amarilla and host of Colombia Calling ... and the path leads you through a pristine cloud forest filled with orchids and birds.

But the beauty of these bouquets comes at a cost. In Colombia, high in the Andes Mountains, a delicate cloud forest is being chipped away at, fragmented and polluted, say environmentalists in the ...