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December 12, 2022

Indigenous Activists Rally to Demand Strong COP15 Commitment
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In Canada, hundreds of people marched through the streets of Montreal
Saturday to demand a strong agreement as the U.N. holds a major summit
on protecting wildlife. The U.N. Biodiversity Conference, known as
COP15, seeks to protect an estimated 1 million plant and animal species
threatened by extinction - most of them due to human activity. Activist
Charlene George of the T'Sou-ke Nation says any deal needs to ensure the
rights of Indigenous peoples who've worked for millennia to protect
their lands.

Charlene George: "Today is about the youth and their having a voice. And
it's a really important voice, because some other people are free to
stand up, and the youth have the passion to be the warriors and to say
the words and challenge. They're the ones that's going to inherit all of
this mess."



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