About 8,000 indigenous people from the Amazon rainforest forests in the capital of Brazil on Monday to demand equal saying as politicians when the country hosts the United Nations Climate Conference this year.
Members of about 200 indigenous society from Latin America and the Pacific, including the Australian indigenous people, participated in an annual gathering of the original peoples in Brazilia.
They wear traditional dress and bright body coating, and they insisted on giving indigenous leaders “more than voice and strength” like world leaders at the United Nations COP30 conference that will be held in Bilim in Amazon in November.
They also demanded direct funding to protect the environment and projects to help indigenous societies adapt to the effects of climate change.
Despite the presence of living oceans, the original peoples in the Amazon and Oceania all live on the front lines of global warming, as they threaten the rise in sea level to the immersion of the low Pacific Islands such as Fiji.
The 37 -year -old tribal leader, Alyssy Rabokka, told AFP, “AFC, a 37 -year -old, told AFP,”
In South America, at the same time, last year, the standard drought laid conditions for the severity of the extreme forest fires.
In Brazil alone, the fires eliminated nearly 18 million hectares of the Amazon rainforest, according to the MAPBIOMAS monitoring platform.
“It is important for me to be invited to the original population heads to Cop30 … because the leaders who live in villages are the ones who know the tremendous difficulties provided by the climate issue,” said Cineisio Truvao, head of the Brazilian Betania McCurran community.
– “We are the answer” –
Brazil has announced the creation of a circle of the original leadership in COP30 to ensure that the indigenous people are given a hearing.
But the original societies want to make sure that their participation is more than just a show.
“We want to see how this can be done, concretely,” said Rapokaka.
The weekly gathering in Brazilia, which was held under the slogan “We are the answer”, will include marches in government buildings.
On Tuesday, Congress will hold a special session on the rights of the indigenous population.
Through the COP30 contract in the Brazilian Amazon, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva aims to highlight the existential threat of the largest rain forests in the world.
On a visit to the Amazon last week, he praised the “important role” that indigenous societies play in combating climate change.
While pledged to end the removal of illegal forests from the Amazon, the left -wing president was criticized by climate activists to push him to a major project in exploring oil abroad near the mouth of the Amazon River.
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