Colombia making ‘great strides’ protecting indigenous lands: lobby group

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Colombia this month became one of the first in Latin America to declare indigenous sacred land to be of “national and cultural interest,” according to lobby group Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) who helped with the process.

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According to Ventura, the land on Colombia’s east coast which is considered sacred by the Kogi tribe was under extensive pressure from development, especially with mining. “This is prime Caribbean real estate,” said the ACT representative, “there won’t be much more of that around.”

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Under new legislation facilitated by ACT the government recently pledged to double the area of Chiribiquete national park in southern Colombia to almost 7.5 million acres, said the representative.


“The Colombian government is making great strides in the area of environmental and cultural protection,” said Ventura.



http://colombiareports.com/colombia-making-great-strides-protecting-indigenous-land-lobby-group/

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1. It must be a mistranslation of

some sort. Everyone knows that Colombia=Bad, regardless of what the topic might be. Maduro's Venezuela on the other hand...

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2. Good to hear about environmental protection rather than resource extraction, mining, dams, and

deforestation for a change that we hear about in latin america all the time. Colombia seems to be fairly progressive despite a center right president. If he signs a peace with the FARC then that will be a signature achievement.

the "leftists" in Venezuela on the other hand are about as progressive as 1950s USA politicians. I don't see much to cheer about there.