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Indigenous Peoples perceive nature as part of their family, not as resources, so it is necessary to conduct ourselves with respect to it if we want to survive here on earth.

Our story is based on a new concept that focuses on indigenous knowledge focused on women, which was created by indigenous women in North America and is also being implemented in Africa.

The territory of the Ch’orti’ people is located in the municipalities of La Unión, Zacapa, Camotán and Jocotán of the department of Chiquimula in Guatemala. With an indigenous population of 60 thousand Ch’orti’, 52 thousand Chiquimula and 8 thousand Zacapa. Three ecosystems coexist in the territory:

Þ subtropical dry forest,
Þ temperate subtropical humid forest , and
Þ temperate subtropical very humid forest.

According to Corinne Moser,
Rainforest Alliance’s senior manager of landscapes and livelihoods in the Congo Basin, “Deforestation and forest degradation are the biggest threats to the health of the Congo Basin, including Cameroon, as forests store large amounts of carbon and provide essential ecosystem services such as biodiversity conservation, the regulation of the water cycle and the provision of wildlife habitats”.

Modern life offers pre-processed foods low in nutrients, to the dietary changes is added the predominance of sedentary lifestyle and the loss of ancestral values of Indigenous Peoples. The Altai Valley has not undergone major changes due to industrial development, but it
is currently threatened by large industries, and also the emigration of inhabitants to the industrial areas located in the North, in search of sources of work.

SAAMI VICTORY OVER FISHING RIGHTS The indigenous Saami people inhabit the northern part of the Scandinavian peninsula and a large part of the Kola peninsula: in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia. About 8,000 Saami live in Finland, which is about 0.16 % of the total Finnish population of about five million […] Politically, the Saami …

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