“Red Alert” has meant in Amazonia where t26% of the ecosystem of the green lung of the planet eis irreparably damaged because of deforestationof drug trafficking and her infectionwarned yesterday, Tuesday, indigenous leaders at their meeting in Lima, Peru.
“For us, announcing that the Amazon has been polluted and destroyed by 26% is very worrying,” Gregorio Mirabal from Venezuela, head of the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA), which represents 3 .5 million natives who live in this area.
“We are on red alert when we say that if we do nothing now, we will not achieve the 2030 development goals nor those of the major agreements concluded at the Glasgow COP” noted the 54-year-old Mirabal.
Meeting for the 5th Indigenous Peoples Summit, Amazonian leaders and researchers from 9 countries and regions presented a report demonstrating that the Amazon is at a point of no return due to high rates of deforestation and degradation which combined now account for 26% of the area.
The remaining 74% is in immediate need of protection, the report underlines.
“Governments said they would save the Amazon, but seeing these numbers, it’s clear they’re not keeping their promises,” confirmed indigenous leader Wakuenai Kuripako.
“The temperature will rise by two degrees if deforestation continues at this rate” of the Amazon rainforest, he warned.
According to Gregorio Mirabal, there are approximately 511 indigenous peoples in this region of the world and 500 different languages are spoken there.
Another problem raised at the summit: othe murders of Amazonian advocates and leaderswhich amount to more than 280 in the nine countries and regions covered by the Amazon rainforest.
“The Amazon is suffering because we are being invaded by logging, oil companies and those who attack our lands. We want to appeal for help,” Brazilian Marceli Tupari of the Coordinating Organization of Amazonian Indigenous Organizations in Brazil told AFP.
The nine countries and territories of the Amazon are Peru, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Guyana, French Guiana (France) and Suriname.
Source: News Beast
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