With 6 months to go until cop 30, the 19th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change took place this week in Recife, Brazil. Our correspondent Brian Mier has more. teleSUR
00:00With six months to go until COP30, the 19th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change took place this week in Recife, Brazil.
00:09A correspondent, Brian Mir, with the details.
00:13According to the national census, 1.3 million Brazilians live in rural communities called quilombolas,
00:20which were founded by people who escaped slavery and have similar land rights as indigenous reserves.
00:26During the 19th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change in Recife,
00:33activists highlighted the important role that these communities have steward in the environment.
00:40We understand that Mother Nature and all animals exist so that we can share our existence and live together.
00:48We do not believe that we should exploit our natural patrimony in any way because we know that it's because of nature that we can guarantee the presence of our species and the life of the planet.
01:03In Pernambuco's southern forest zone, Ingenio Siqueira Quilombola sits on the edge of a huge mangrove forest.
01:11Residents there have been farming, fishing and gathering shellfish since the community was first founded by people who escaped slavery in the 1600s.
01:19Quilombola residents have a way of life which we can call sustainable, in collaboration with nature.
01:31They consider themselves as part of nature and conserve their biome, all of its vegetation and all of the biodiversity.
01:40Their way of life is based on cooperation with nature.
01:43Like people from other Quilombolas and indigenous reserves across Brazil, the residents of Ingenio Siqueira are on the front lines of the fight for climate change mitigation,
01:53often seeing changes in the environment years before the rest of society discovers what's happening.
02:01The water is becoming too salty and this is preventing some species from inhabiting our mangrove forest, such as the aratu and blue crabs.
02:13We also see that climate change is affecting our ecosystem because the people who regularly go fishing are saying that there is a shortage of fish in our community.
02:22With support from the MST and local environmentalist networks like Sabia, residents of Ingenio Siqueira are fighting to transform the mangrove forest in Rio Formosa into a national park.
