Radio Havana Cuba | Indigenous youth will strengthen the defense of the Amazon

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LA PAZ, OCTOBER 28 (RHC) About 80 indigenous youth leaders from eight countries in the Amazon basin have officially started a course on preserving and defending these lands, an official source confirmed to Prensa Latina on Thursday.

“These are men and women from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela,” Wendy Medina, head of communications for the Fund for the Development of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America, told this news agency. Caribbean (Villac).

He added that this preparation will enhance their leadership capabilities in matters related to regional defense and sustainable development, based on the approach to decent living and decent living.

The person in charge reported that this project is the result of an inter-institutional collaboration between Filac, Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations in the Amazon Basin, Conservation International and Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid.

The preparation officially opened this Friday as a course to enhance capabilities in regional defense and sustainable environmental management.

In their journey, participants will develop five themes, among them the so-called indigenous and multicultural, sustainable environmental management, territorial defense and management, leadership of these young people and collective rights to land and sustainable development.

Other topics that will be studied will be the formulation of projects related to sustainable environmental management, territorial defense and the replication of what has been learned in their communities, as well as the social validation of the advocacy program, with the aim of contributing to regional defense and forest conservation.

For 10 weeks, this setup will be implemented in the fully default variant and include simultaneous sessions in which the student body interacts with their facilitators and with each other.

Medina explained that there will also be asynchronous sessions with self-learning activities.

The Head of Communications confirmed that the project consists of a journey through a virtual learning platform that she described as “attractive and friendly” in Spanish, English and Portuguese.

He added that simultaneous sessions will include interpretation, while participants throughout the course will receive teacher support.

The Scientific Committee for the Amazon, made up of 150 researchers from the region and the world, reports that “the forests of the Amazon act as a giant air conditioner, reducing the Earth’s surface temperature and leading to precipitation. They exert a strong influence on the atmosphere and circulation patterns, both in and out of the tropics” . (Line:PL)