Pollution
Ecuador's Native defenders face growing risks, activists state at UN top
Native ecological defenders in Ecuador are suffering an increasing variety of dangers and sometimes deadly attacks in the middle of spiraling violence in the nation, activists said on Friday at the U.N. COP16 nature talks in Colombia. Nearly 200 countries are collected in the city of Cali in an attempt to agree on an offer to implement the landmark 2022 Kunming-Montreal Biodiversity Framework agreement that aims to end damage of nature by 2030. Amongst the goals of that agreement was heightened defense for ecological defenders. But throughout the summit, slated to end late on Friday, Native activists from Ecuador said...