BOGOTA, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Friday proposed that the anti-narcotics drive be added to the campaign against global warming, since drug traffickers destroyed jungles to make room for illegal plantations.

    "Drugs are the great enemy of the jungle," Uribe said during a regional summit on Drugs, Security and Cooperation in Cartagena, some 700 km north of the Colombian capital Bogota.

    "I'd like to suggest the fight against illegal drugs be included in the battle against global warming," he said.

    Delegations from the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, Venezuela and host nation Colombia are participating in the summit.

    Drug trafficking represents "the main enemy of our jungle", and the fight against it should be our first contribution to the strategy against global warming, said Uribe.

    Jungles cover around 51 percent of Colombia's total territory of1.16 million square km, he said, pointing out that drug traffickers have destroyed more than two million hectares of jungle to create illegal coca plantations.

    According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Colombia is the greatest world producer of cocaine with an annual output of 610 tons.