“It is not for pleasure, it is out of necessity. Previously, to share with our family we had to depend on a candle or a lock (oil or gasoline with toilet paper between a jar), but it was time to have a prevention of not making a fire. With the solar energy we could cover a need but with less risk, with other plants it was time to be buying gasoline and if they were damaged to look for a mechanic. Jewish
For Maryi Adriana Serrano, of the Foundation for the Conservation and Sustainable development of the Amazon (FCDS), the rights of nature are not opposed to those of the peasantry and ethnic peoples, they can be reconciled.
The challenge would be to establish when or not that someone is inhabitant of a protected area and that the state can respect those rights and exercise them efficiently, as well as demand their responsibilities.
“There are people who arrived 50 years ago, but and those who came to deforest yesterday have the same rights?”
For her, this could guarantee some dignified living conditions in harmony and with commitment to the protection of these protected areas, but it is also overwhelming that there are areas that should not be inhabited or have any type of “development”, since if they are not preserved, what can future generations receive if everything is destroyed?
-Between 2013 and 2023, 1.68 million hectares have been lost throughout the country, and in the Amazon 1 million hectares have been razed for that same period, according to FCDS.
Although the problems of protected areas cannot be homogenized, the truth is that “deforestation continues to be presented in the same area where the Amazon has traditionally been, it is a super important area because protected areas and forests in the best state of conservation in the country are connected,” says Maryi.
“In the south of the goal the forests that allow the latest connections of the Macarena Special Management Area are fragmenting with the Chiribiquete mountain range and we are affecting the Amazon Bioma that has impacts far beyond Colombia, that is, a worldwide connotation,” he says.
This article was prepared with the support of Climate Tracker America Latin America.
RV: EG
