Ecuadorian indigenous people demand funding to protect the Amazon | Video

Montreal (Canada), Dec 16 (EFE), (Camera: Julio C. Rivas).- Indigenous representatives from the Ecuadorian Amazon requested this Thursday that local communities receive the funds to preserve biodiversity that are being negotiated at the COP15 conference in Montreal and denounced that the aboriginal territories do not receive the allocated money.

STATEMENTS BY UYUNKAR DOMINGO PEAS NAMPICHKAI, ECUADORIAN INDIGENOUS LEADER.

Many governments of rich countries have donated millions of dollars but this has been transferred to the bureaucracy and does not reach the territory. It continues to be business outside, at the top, but it does not reach the territory. So now we demand that this fund that they are really giving reaches the territory so that the same indigenous people who have damaged and polluted can restore everything that needs to be restored. We have to reforest what has been indiscriminately cut down, it is time to take action and we want to continue having standing forest. Instead of continuing to talk, it is better to concentrate on the bioeconomy, in this way we want to create a dignified life for our generation.

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Date: 16/12/2022 12:00 (UTC)
Credit: EFE
Source: EFE
Topic: Environmental issue » Natural resources
Environmental issue
Type: Rough cut
Duration: 50 seconds
Reference: 55010164844
Relevance: Normal