An appeals court in Colombia...reversed a lower court decision and ruled that the country’s government...must create and implement plans within five months to stop deforestation in the Amazon.  The court...said that the Amazon enjoys legal rights and protection under the law...The young plaintiffs asked the court to protect their constitutional rights to life, a healthy environment, and food and water by ordering the government to honor its commitment to tackling climate change, including stopping the country’s worsening deforestation...The court also required local municipalities to update their land management plans to include measures for addressing climate impacts...The plaintiffs filed the tutela as much of Colombia opens to development for the first time.  More than five decades of fighting between the government and rebel forces kept much of Colombia’s land in conflict zones.  The government and rebels signed a peace treaty in 2016 to end the fighting, opening its Amazon rainforests to the dangers of overdevelopment...