Lula announces creation of indigenous and environmental reserves on Amazon Day | Video

Brasilia, Sep 5 (EFE) - Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced this Tuesday the creation of two new indigenous territories and two huge new environmental reserves as part of a set of measures to preserve the world's largest rainforest, in a ceremony to commemorate the Amazon Day.

FOOTAGE: PRESS CONFERENCE AND STATEMENTS BY LUIZ INÁCIO LULA DA SILVA, PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL AND SONIA GUAJAJARA, MINISTER OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF BRAZIL.

TRANSLATION:

Lula da Silva, president of Brazil:

"The Amazon is in a hurry... in a hurry to survive the devastation promoted by the few who do not want to think about the future." "The Amazon is in a hurry to stay alive and face the droughts that climate changes are already beginning to bring and that may intensify in the coming years" "That is why nothing better to celebrate the Amazon Day than to show that the Government is also in a hurry. Hurry to reduce the destruction of the Amazon and to announce concrete measures to guarantee its preservation".

Sonia Guajajara, Minister of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil:

"We will continue to act, because we, the indigenous peoples, are the guardians of the Amazon, because we are the Amazon itself. We need to continue with actions that value people, communities and cultures. This is the way to be involved with the Amazon."

Camera: Alex Mirkhan.

Metadata

Date: 05/09/2023 12:00 (UTC)
Credit: EFE
Source: EFE
Topic: Environmental issue
Type: Rough cut
Duration: 201 seconds
Reference: 55011832152
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