Brazil: the struggle of the Yanomami to preserve their lands
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Davi Kopenawa (right) and his son Dário Kopenawa (left) came to France to denounce the invasions of their Yanomami lands by gold diggers.
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By: Mikaël Ponge Follow |
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While there are only 2 days of work left for the negotiators of the COP26 meeting in Glasgow to try to stop what seems inevitable.
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It is already too late,
" warns Davi Kopenawa, shaman and leader of Yanomami, an Amerindian population living in northwestern Brazil.
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The Yanomami people (about 30,000 people) live in the north of Brazil, in a protected and delimited territory, in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, but they are suffering the full brunt of incursions by gold diggers and wood cutters, which have accelerated. after 3 years of government of President Jair Bolsonaro. While in Paris, their leader Davi Kopenawa, president of the Hutukara Yanomami association, with his son Dário Kopenawa, vice-president of the association, spoke with Véronique Gaymard.
“As indigenous people, we take pictures, we know the system now and we use it to let the whole world know what's going on,”
says Dário Kopenawa. And his father to add
“I can't believe the governments of the world are going to cure climate change.
The pollution has already taken its toll, it is too late.
They can continue to have their meetings, and continue to pollute more and more, but I cannot believe that they will solve anything ”
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