Support the Indigenous Peoples’ call to protect the Amazon
The Amazon is by far the largest tropical forest area on the planet. It covers more than 7,000,000 km² in a territory that includes Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Colombia, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.
The Amazon rainforest is of vital importance to biodiversity, humanity, the climate and the entire planet. It is home to a third of our planet’s plant and animal species, as well as 20% of its freshwater. It is also home to more than 500 Indigenous Peoples who, through their ancestral knowledge and environmentally-friendly way of life, have been protecting the Amazon for millennia.
For several years now, however, ever larger areas of the Amazon rainforest have been deforested and burned. The clearing and the hundreds of thousands of fires that affect this territory every year are destroying biodiversity, wiping out the livelihoods of Indigenous populations, upsetting the balance of ecosystems and threatening the global climate.
Today, Indigenous Peoples are calling on the international community, national and city governments, economic, financial and scientific institutions, and all those who are prepared to do something for the planet, to join them in putting an end to these practices and guaranteeing the protection of the Amazon. While it is not too late, it is urgent. We must prevent further deforestation from reaching a tipping point that would lead to the irreversible collapse of the Amazon ecosystem.
In support of the struggles of the Indigenous organizations united through COICA (Coordination of Indigenous Peoples Organizations of the Amazon Basin), AQOCI invites you to act by signing this petition calling for the adoption of a global pact to ensure that 80% of the Amazon is permanently protected by 2025.
To find out more: https://80×25.coicamazonia.org/ (in Spanish only)