This article explores how Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP, Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz) addresses environmental war crimes in the Macro Cases 05 and 02, offering critical insights for the evolving debate on codifying ecocide as an international crime. Through doctrinal legal analysis, the paper examines how the JEP’s Chamber of Recognition deals with the legal and practical critical issues to recognise other-than-human entities as victims of the internal armed conflict and subsequently assess environmental harm thresholds (severe, widespread, and long-term) and determine perpetrators’ awareness of ecological consequences. Anchored in International Humanitarian Law, the Rome Statute, and domestic norms, the JEP’s legal reasoning reflects a shift from anthropocentric interpretations toward ecocentric approaches rooted in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian worldviews.