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By Edson Krenak (Krenak, CS Staff)

Indigenous Peoples represent one of the most significant multilateral and democratic contributions to climate and land issues, as they are the frontliners of the climate crisis, leaders in ecosystem protection, legal land tenure, and sustainable development. However, at the COP, they struggled to be heard. 

The Xikrin Peoples face severe humanitarian and environmental crises as Vale’s nickel and other metal mining contaminates their rivers, harms their health, and destroys their ancestral territory, endangering their cultural survival and the environmental integrity of the region. The negative impacts on the health of the Xikrin people are so severe that some studies show that 98% of the communities in the Cateté lands are seriously contaminated.

“Las manifestaciones Indígenas en la COP30 no constituyen violaciones de seguridad. Los Pueblos Indígenas están ejerciendo sus derechos humanos fundamentales y expresando su frustración por la falta de acceso a los espacios donde se toman decisiones que los afectan de manera desproporcionada”. —Aimee Roberson (Choctaw y Chickasaw), Directora Ejecutiva de Cultural Survival

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