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Armed with voting rights, native groups join conservation fray
MARSEILLE: Newly armed with voting rights, indigenous peoples have come to the world’s leading conservation congress meeting in the French city of Marseille both hopeful and wary.They have demands, and will not go quietly into the night, their representatives say.“It makes no sense for consultants and companies to come to teach us how to protect what we have always successfully protected,“ said Jose Gregorio Diaz Mirabal of COICA, which represents more than two million indigenous people across nine Amazon nations.Their boldest proposal is for a measure to ensure that 80% of the Amazon is declared a protected area by 2025.The reasoning is simple.“Half of [tropical] forests, and 80% of biodive

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