Indigenous Colombians call for inclusion of ancestral ways in COP16

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Indigenous communities from different regions of Colombia march in the southwestern city of Cali to demand that their ancestral knowledge on conservation be taken into account at the UN biodiversity summit, COP16, which is being held in the city.

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00:00The financing for the contributions that indigenous territories generate to the protection of Mother Earth.

00:20We are calling that this COP is not a business of minerals, of the extraction of land.

00:27This COP has to be the rebirth of our Mother Earth.

00:31It has to be the resurgence of the Mother Earth.

00:34It has to be that we keep that memory of everything that she has given us

00:38and we have to guarantee the survival of the new generations.

00:51Pre-informed, the pre-consultation, free and informed, and the right.

00:58The extractivist economy, the extraction of wood resources, the extraction of minerals, gold, coal,

01:09all these types of extractions are putting the indigenous peoples at great risk,

01:15but also all humanity, as well as the planet itself.

01:27The COP is not a business of minerals, of the extraction of land.

01:34It has to be the resurgence of the Mother Earth.

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