During the last 50 years, the Amazon area lost 17 percent of its forest. Last year, it was about 1.5 percent. It is too much, and we are about to collapse, very fast. We need urgent actions. We need general measures to end deforestation and control deforestation during the dry seasons and to find other ways to manage agriculture and re-establish the ecosystem.
The [Amazon] forest doesn't burn, it's burned.
Where we are in more trouble than we think we are - is that these tipping points are interrelated – they are not independent. These things are very dangerous because they can create cascading effects that will impact the whole basis of the biosphere and life’s survival systems.
We are about to collapse and burn fast. We are in the tipping point of the Amazon, but this is reversible.
The situation of Indigenous peoples not just of Rio Negro but in general is of great vulnerability. And the sustainable culture of Indigenous lands should be one of main policy instruments – allowing communities to govern based on their own models.
We Indigenous Peoples have been struggling for a long time to maintain balance [with nature] in climate change. I want people from the outside to hear us and to know that we are fighting for our lives – not only our life, but that of humankind.
Pour nous au Malawi, le paysage des terres arides est une composante très importante de l'écosystème... Ils sont une source d'eau pour l'irrigation, le pâturage et un réservoir de biodiversité avec d'abondantes espèces animales et végétales
Dans le monde entier, nous avons besoin d’une nouvelle façon de penser, accompagnée par de l’action rapide, permettant de nous éloigner des systèmes néfastes pour l’environnement et pour nos sociétés et qui nous conduira vers des systèmes durables
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