Colombia's Indigenous Demand Ancestral Knowledge is at Forefront of COP16 Biodiversity Convention

Colombia's Indigenous Demand Ancestral Knowledge is at Forefront of COP16 Biodiversity Convention

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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Article by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 24, 2024

The United States is the only United Nations member state that has not ratified the Convention on Biodiversity. While 197 countries arrive in Cali, Colombia for the COP16 Biodiversity Convention, the U.S. is engaged in war crimes and genocide in Palestine.

In the U.S., the team of Biden and Interior Sec. Deb Haaland plans to desecrate the Hualapai's sacred ceremonial water with a lithium mine; is promoting lithium mining digging into the Paiute Massacre Site at Thacker Pass; is allowing uranium mining in the Grand Canyon threatening Havasupai's aquifer and poisoning their medicine plants with radioactive dust; allowing dumping radioactive ore and global radioactive waste in White Mesa Ute's community; is bulldozing the ancient village sites, burial places and medicine plants of Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache for a wind energy project; plans a massive copper mine from San Carlos Apache sacred Oak Flat; and plans to increase the radioactivity in the Pueblo homelands with increased plutonium production and storage at Los Alamos Labs in northern New Mexico.