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Dear Friends and Colleagues,
The SOSOrinoco Team is pleased to share its third report on this very remote area of Venezuelan Amazonia. Please do not share and keep it CONFIDENTIAL for the time being. We will notify you as soon as we make it public.
This report is unique in that, as you are aware, traveling to and obtaining information about the state of Amazonas, particularly the region of the Alto Orinoco, is almost impossible and very risky. We were able to send an SOSOrinoco team member to Amazonas where we were able to interview a number of people who live in the region and in this way, obtain first hand information.
The major points that we make in this in-depth report are:
- The Alto Orinoco - Casiquiare Biosphere Reserve (RBAOC) comprises one of the geographical areas of greatest cultural diversity in the entire Amazon; Indigenous communities of 17 different ethnic groups live there.
- As part of the Amazon, the RBAOC plays a vital role in regulating the climate of the planet, therefore, the conservation of this enormous environmental heritage is essential in the fight to avoid the catastrophic consequences of global climate change.
- It is urgent that the destruction of the RBAOC be stopped: for the conservation of the Amazon, respect for indigenous peoples, the future of life on the planet, and because of the ethical responsibility of Humanity.
- This report provides sufficient evidence and proof of the Maduro Regime's responsibility regarding the catastrophic health, medical and social situation of the RBAOC, but also obliges the reader, especially those who have assumed political responsibilities and commitments, to act. It is not just about biodiversity; It is essentially about innocent human lives, and ancestral cultures with which we have an obligation and responsibility, historical, current and transgenerational.
- The overwhelming process of social, cultural and ecological destruction, at the hands of miners and guerrilla groups eager for gold and power, with the support, active and passive, of the Venezuelan military and government, constitute an ecocide, an ethnocide and a genocide, in the process of development, which has global repercussions and that humanity cannot and should not tolerate.
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