Criminal networks threaten the Amazon. Indigenous leaders want the UN to act
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Indigenous leaders from across the Amazon are taking their fight against illegal mining, drug trafficking and deforestation to a United Nations conference in Vienna starting Monday. More than a dozen Indigenous representatives from Peru, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador are participating in the Oct. 19-23 U. N. conference on transnational organized crime, known as COP13. The leaders want governments to tackle the financial networks behind environmental crimes while giving...
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