{"id":26339,"date":"2021-09-08T13:36:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T16:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amazoniasocioambiental.org\/?p=26339"},"modified":"2021-09-13T13:41:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T16:41:42","slug":"campaign-launched-to-protect-80-of-amazon-at-key-environment-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/radar\/campaign-launched-to-protect-80-of-amazon-at-key-environment-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaign launched to protect 80% of Amazon at key environment summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nTaneyulime Pilisi, a Kalin\u2019a woman from French Guiana, speaks at an Our Land Our Nature counter-summit march in Marseille.\u00a0<\/span>Photograph: No\u00e9 Gabriel<\/p>\n

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\u2018New alliance with equal rights\u2019 needed, say indigenous delegates at IUCN biodiversity conference<\/p>\n

The Guardian
\n8 de septiembre, 2021<\/p>\n

Indigenous voices on the environment are finally being heard as Marseille hosts a global biodiversity summit, with a call to protect 80% of the Amazon, as well as a \u201ccounter conference\u201d highlighting the conservation movement\u2019s historic violation of people\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n

For the first time in its seven-decade history, the International Union for\u00a0Conservation<\/a>\u00a0of Nature (IUCN) is including indigenous peoples as full voting members in their own right, rather than under the NGO category. Dozens of indigenous meetings are happening at the summit \u2013 which occurs every four years \u2013 with representatives from 23 organisations.<\/p>\n

Greater inclusion of indigenous representatives comes as the European \u201cfortress conservation\u201d model, which resulted in vast human rights abuses and an estimated\u00a020 million people<\/a>\u00a0displaced from their homelands worldwide since the 19th century, is increasingly being challenged.<\/p>\n

Historically, the global conservation movement was based on the idea that protected areas flourish free from human disturbance, but a growing body of evidence shows that indigenous communities are the best at looking after wildlife, and that as much as\u00a080% of the world\u2019s remaining forest biodiversity<\/a>\u00a0lies within indigenous peoples\u2019 territories.<\/p>\n

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\u2018We seek to build a new alliance with equal rights on equal terms,\u2019 Jos\u00e9 Gregorio D\u00edaz Mirabal told the IUCN congress in Marseille.<\/span>\u00a0Photograph: Arnold Jerocki\/Getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jos\u00e9 Gregorio D\u00edaz Mirabal, a member of Venezuela\u2019s Wakuenai Kurripaco people and coordinator of the Congress of Indigenous Organisations of the Amazon River Basin (Coica), which represents more than 2 million indigenous people, said they had been fighting for decades to be heard.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe come to the IUCN with our voice and voting rights. We seek to build a new alliance with equal rights on equal terms, but we see that there is still much to do, so much to recognise,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLess than 1% of all the funding that is invested in protecting intact biodiversity and mitigating climate change in our territories reaches our communities, and that has to change. It\u2019s absurd that so much of the funding goes to consultants who are sent to tell us what we already know about how to conserve what we are already conserving.\u201d<\/p>\n

Representatives from countries across the world will vote on motions this week that will shape future global conservation policy and the allocation of finance. Coica\u2019s\u00a0Amazonia po<\/em>r la vida<\/em>\u00a0(Amazonia for Life) campaign motion is demanding protection of 80% of the Amazon basin by 2025 (protected areas and indigenous territories make up about\u00a045% currently<\/a>) with the emphasis on indigenous peoples managing those protected areas. They are asking governments to recognise 100% of indigenous land in the Amazon and ban all forms of extractive industries in those areas.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0record number<\/a>\u00a0of environmental defenders were killed in 2019 for protecting their land, 40% of whom were from indigenous communities. \u201cScience is saying the best-conserved areas are indigenous territories \u2026 yet we have the highest level of murder,\u201d D\u00edaz Mirabal said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNational parks receive funding and support from governments but when it comes to our indigenous territories we\u2019re left to spill our own blood to defend it. Now it is time for our indigenous territories to be protected with the same level of support and legislation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

As well as showcasing a range of ideas from campaigners, scientists and conservationists, the summit provides policymakers with a chance to discuss issues in the run-up to the Cop15 \u201cParis agreement for nature\u201d, due to be negotiated in\u00a0Kunming next year<\/a>. The headline target is likely to be\u00a0protecting 30%\u00a0<\/a>of the planet for nature by the end of the decade (the \u201c30×30\u201d target).<\/p>\n

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Nadino Calapucha, Claudette Labont\u00e9, Carmen Josse and Jos\u00e9 Gregorio D\u00edaz Mirabal at the Amazonia for Life: 80% by 2025 press conference.<\/span>\u00a0Photograph: Arnold Jerocki\/Getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The\u00a0draft Cop15 agreement<\/a>\u00a0includes a clause that traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities should guide decision-making \u201cwith their free, prior, and informed consent\u201d. But indigenous groups, academics and campaigners from 18 countries gathered in Marseille at the\u00a0\u201cOur Land, Our Nature\u201d congress<\/a>, a \u201ccounter-summit\u201d on the eve of the IUCN meeting, called for land rights to be at the heart of conservation, not protected areas. More than\u00a03,000 people attended the event<\/a>, either in person or online, which included a protest march through the French city.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 30×30 target is a structural problem,\u201d said Mordecai Ogada, director of Conservation Solutions Afrika. \u201cWe need to rethink the definition of protected areas, those that exist, and we need to look for a more sophisticated model of biodiversity and conservation. That\u2019s where the big organisations have such a challenge, because they find it very difficult to change their own structures.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2018We need to rethink the definition of protected areas,\u2019 according to Mordecai Ogada.<\/span>\u00a0Photograph: No\u00e9 Gabriel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The alternative summit included representatives from\u00a0Survival International<\/a>,\u00a0Rainforest Foundation UK<\/a>\u00a0and the Minority Rights Group, as well as a number of indigenous people with different perspectives on the usefulness of protected areas.<\/p>\n

Juan Pablo Guti\u00e9rrez, a representative of the Yukpa people in Colombia but living in exile in France, said areas that governments were designating as \u201cprotected\u201d had been safeguarded for years by indigenous people.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s happening with 30×30 is that governments want to distract global opinion by proposing solutions that don\u2019t relate to the real problem at all. If you want to attack climate change, you need to attack the causes that are leading to it,\u201d he said, citing western consumption and overexploitation of resources as the key drivers of ecological destruction.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0UN report<\/a>\u00a0published earlier this year found indigenous people in South America were the best at looking after forests, with deforestation 50% lower than elsewhere,\u00a0according to a review<\/a>\u00a0of more than 300 studies. Representatives at the Our Land, Our Nature gathering argued that there was little scientific evidence that protecting 30% of the planet would stem biodiversity loss. The previous 10-year UN target agreed in 2010 in\u00a0Aichi, Japan, set goals that by 2020, 17%<\/a>\u00a0of terrestrial areas and 10% of coastal and marine areas would be conserved.<\/p>\n

Lara Dominguez, a lawyer with the Minority Rights Group, said: \u201cDespite being very close to achieving the 17% target in many states, biodiversity loss has reached unprecedented levels. Even though we have more protected areas, it hasn\u2019t actually impacted biodiversity in a positive way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dominguez believes these policies are driven more by politics than science and argues that a rights-based approach to conservation would be far more effective.<\/p>\n

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Campaigners for indigenous peoples\u2019 rights carry a banner in Marseille reading: \u2018Change the system, not the climate.\u2019<\/span>\u00a0Photograph: Christophe Simon\/AFP\/Getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Francisco Ramiro Batz\u00edn Chojoj, legal representative of the Guatemala-based indigenous organisation Sotz\u2019il, said it was important that indigenous people had a seat at the table and that working towards the 30×30 target was \u201cfundamental\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are calling for indigenous people to be respected in all these initiatives because it\u2019s essential they are involved.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stewart Maginnis, global director of the IUCN\u2019s nature-based solutions group, said: \u201cThe 30×30 can and must work to support indigenous peoples by strengthening their custodianship, voice and rights.<\/p>\n

\u201cProtection for nature conservation need not and should not exclude people,\u201d he said. \u201cMany of the world\u2019s protected and conserved areas are managed in a way where people and communities live and work within their boundaries.\u201d<\/p>\n

A\u00a0UN policy brief<\/a>\u00a0on human rights and the environment, released last month, emphasised the need for a dramatic departure from \u201cconservation as usual\u201d. Neville Ash, director of the UN Environment Programme conservation monitoring centre, said indigenous people and communities who governed large areas of land were often not recognised for their extensive contributions to nature conservation. \u201cThis needs to change,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe draft framework is explicit on the importance of employing rights-based approaches for its implementation, and governments and other actors will need to learn from mistakes of the past and be held accountable for delivering on these future commitments in line with human rights obligations.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Indigenous voices on the environment are finally being heard as Marseille hosts a global biodiversity summit, with a call to protect 80% of the Amazon, as well as a \u201ccounter conference\u201d highlighting the conservation movement\u2019s historic violation of people\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n

For the first time in its seven-decade history, the International Union for\u00a0Conservation\u00a0of Nature (IUCN) is including indigenous peoples as full voting members in their own right, rather than under the NGO category. Dozens of indigenous meetings are happening at the summit \u2013 which occurs every four years \u2013 with representatives from 23 organisations.<\/p>\n

Greater inclusion of indigenous representatives comes as the European \u201cfortress conservation\u201d model, which resulted in vast human rights abuses and an estimated\u00a020 million people\u00a0displaced from their homelands worldwide since the 19th century, is increasingly being challenged.<\/p>\n

Historically, the global conservation movement was based on the idea that protected areas flourish free from human disturbance, but a growing body of evidence shows that indigenous communities are the best at looking after wildlife, and that as much as\u00a080% of the world\u2019s remaining forest biodiversity\u00a0lies within indigenous peoples\u2019 territories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radar","category-1","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26339"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26343,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26339\/revisions\/26343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}