Colombia: Environmental and indigenous activists join international Amazon wildfire protests

W/S Protesters marching, Bogota
M/S Protesters outside Brazilian embassy
M/S Protesters chanting and holding placard reading (Spanish): "There is no Planet B."
W/S Protesters
C/U Protester drumming
SOT, Aida Quilcue, Councilor of Human Rights for the National Indigenous Organisation of Colombia (ONIC) (Spanish): "Well, to greet on behalf of the indigenous peoples of the Indigenous Organisation of Colombia and other peoples that we join to continue defending life. I believe that the physical and cultural extermination but also the death to which Mother Earth is taking us is not far away. Because the original people were taken from the territory."
M/S Indigenous person and protesters
M/S Protesters marching past
C/U Protester blowing into shell
C/U Sign reading (Spanish): "SOS Amazon, Bolsonaro Miente"
SOT, Diego Cardona, Pan-Amazon Social Forum Process (Spanish): "This is being presented almost three weeks ago. But, for responding as a guarantor state of life and life not only of human beings, of life in all the manifestations that are burning, which is becoming extinct at this time in the Amazon."
C/U Placard reading (Spanish): "To attack the Amazon is to attack the planet."
M/S Protesters chanting (Spanish): "Bolsonaro, that fire is yours!"
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Environmental and indigenous activists gathered outside the Brazilian embassy in Bogota on Friday to condemn the handling of the wildfires currently raging across the Amazon rainforest.
Footage shows protesters marching outside the Brazilian embassy and holding placards reading; "To attack the Amazon is to attack the planet." Other protesters were seen chanting “Bolsonaro, that fire is yours!”
Councilor of Human Rights for the National Indigenous Organisation of Colombia Aida Quilcue addressed those attending the rally, saying: "I believe that the physical and cultural extermination but also the death to which Mother Earth is taking us is not far away. Because the original people were taken from the territory."
So far in 2019 nearly 73,000 fires have been recorded by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, an 84 percent increase as compared to the same period last year.