The foliage used for flower bouquets exported to countries around the world — mostly the U.S. — is being grown amid increasingly fragmented cloud forest in Cundinamarca, Colombia. A cacophony of ...

This year just for Valentine's Day, Colombia exported 35,000 tons of flowers and foliage, according to ... Most of the land being used for this crop was already in use for other agriculture.

The beauty of bouquets comes with a cost to the cloud forests of Colombia, the largest exporter of flowers and foliage to the United States. The truth behind your Valentine's Day flowers ...