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biodiversity treaty<\/strong><\/a> forged at the last COP to protect 30 per cent of nature will be achieved or funded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis COP was meant to be a status check on countries\u2019 progress toward saving nature, and all indicators on that status are blinking red,\u201d says Crystal Davis, global director of the World Resources Institute\u2019s food, land and water programme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe primary concern is that countries are not on track to protect 30 per cent of the world\u2019s land and water by 2030. Without conserving the most critical ecosystems, the consequences for all countries will be immense.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8827218\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//11//01//climate-change-was-a-major-us-election-issue-in-2020-why-has-it-taken-a-back-seat-in-2024/">Climate change was a major US election issue in 2020. Why has it taken a back seat in 2024?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>There were some breakthroughs, including a global levy on companies profiting from nature\u2019s genetic data and the establishment of a permanent body for Indigenous peoples at COP. But the verdict of most commentators is that - as director general of WWF International Kirsten Schuijt puts it - \u201cwe\u2019re now veering dangerously off track.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis outcome jeopardises the implementation of the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//12//20//global-biodiversity-framework-almost-200-countries-have-signed-but-is-it-truly-historic/">Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework<\/strong><\/a> [GBF],\u201d she adds. \u201cNobody should be okay with this - because it will impact us all.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Why did COP16 fail to deliver what\u2019s needed for nature?<\/h2><p>Delegates arriving in Colombia for the 21 October to 1 November conference faced a tall order.<\/p>\n<p>Governments were due to submit new National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) by the start of COP16, but only one-fifth did so.<\/p>\n<p>Inger Andersen, head of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), noted that those in Cali arrived with a \u201cheavy agenda of work\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But many countries were infuriated by the way the discussions proceeded, with vital issues left to the final hour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe really question the lack of legitimacy of discussing such an important issue at the end of the COP,\u201d Brazilian negotiator Maria Angelica Ikeda told the UK\u2019s Guardian newspaper just before discussions of resource mobilisation were cut off. \u201cWe should have started discussing these issues at the beginning [...] We should have decisions guaranteeing that we have the resources we need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others lamented that developing countries were forced to leave the summit - which was due to finish on Friday evening - because they could not afford to change flights, resulting in the meeting losing quorum. Talks will need to continue next year at an interim meeting in Bangkok.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8814946,8803186\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//10//21//as-the-uk-appoints-a-nature-envoy-how-successful-have-her-european-counterparts-been-in-go/">As the UK appoints a nature envoy, how successful have her European counterparts been in government?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//10//28//frightening-statistic-more-than-1-in-3-tree-species-worldwide-at-risk-of-extinction/">/u2018Frightening statistic\u2019: More than 1 in 3 tree species worldwide at risk of extinction<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>What did COP16 fail to achieve?<\/h2><p>Under the GBF, countries pledged to collectively mobilise $200 billion (\u20ac184 bn) per year for conservation from public and private sources. Of this, developed countries committed $20 billion (\u20ac18.4 bn) per year for developing countries by 2025, rising to $30 billion (\u20ac28 bn) by 2030.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, COP16 failed to implement a strategy for raising money for the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund (GBFF).<\/p>\n<p>Some new contributions were announced, including from <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//10//29//a-message-of-hope-6-european-countries-pledge-130-million-to-protect-biodiversity/">six European countries<\/strong><\/a>. Yet,\u00a0 with two months to go, the total only stands around \u20ac484 million, according to WWF.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing the negotiations on biodiversity finance here in Cali was as enjoyable as root canal surgery,\u201d says Bernadette Fischler Hooper, head of international advocacy at the NGO\u2019s UK arm.<\/p>\n<p>COP16 also ran out of time to approve the Convention on Biological Diversity budget for the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinance remains the key sticking point,\u201d says WRI\u2019s Davis. \u201cMost of the world\u2019s biodiversity lies in developing countries that reasonably expect billions rather than millions to support their efforts to protect and restore nature.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYet wealthier countries\u2019 pledges at COP16 fell far short of what is needed to meet their commitments. And almost no progress has been made on repurposing nature-harming subsidies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It also failed to reach a consensus on how the GBF\u2019s four goals and 23 targets will be monitored. In the history of UN biodiversity agreements, the world has yet to meet a single target, and COP16 continued this dispiriting trend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Frustratingly, the Guardian reports, most countries were in agreement on the draft monitoring framework for the deal but were unable to sign off on it as time bled out on more divisive topics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8785184\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//10//11//alarming-wwf-reports-sends-a-stark-warning-to-eu-to-use-green-deal-to-restore-biodiversity/">/u2018Alarming/u2019: WWF report \u2018sends a stark warning\u2019 to EU to use Green Deal to restore biodiversity<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>What did COP manage to achieve?<\/h2><div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//83//15//00//808x454_cmsv2_e677f5c3-f06b-5686-947b-17f63b7365fe-8831500.jpg/" alt=\"An Indigenous Brazilian delegate attends the opening ceremony of COP16 in Cali, Colombia, 20 October. \" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/83\/15\/00\/384x216_cmsv2_e677f5c3-f06b-5686-947b-17f63b7365fe-8831500.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/83\/15\/00\/640x360_cmsv2_e677f5c3-f06b-5686-947b-17f63b7365fe-8831500.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/83\/15\/00\/750x422_cmsv2_e677f5c3-f06b-5686-947b-17f63b7365fe-8831500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/83\/15\/00\/828x466_cmsv2_e677f5c3-f06b-5686-947b-17f63b7365fe-8831500.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/83\/15\/00\/1080x608_cmsv2_e677f5c3-f06b-5686-947b-17f63b7365fe-8831500.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/83\/15\/00\/1200x675_cmsv2_e677f5c3-f06b-5686-947b-17f63b7365fe-8831500.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/83\/15\/00\/1920x1080_cmsv2_e677f5c3-f06b-5686-947b-17f63b7365fe-8831500.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">An Indigenous Brazilian delegate attends the opening ceremony of COP16 in Cali, Colombia, 20 October. <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Fernando Vergara<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe pace of COP16 negotiations did not reflect the urgency of the crisis we are facing,\u201d says Catherine Weller, director of global policy at Fauna & Flora, summing up the mood from many nature-focused NGOs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo years on, the vast majority of nature targets agreed in Montreal [during COP15] regrettably currently still feel like unfunded words on paper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//07//09//deforestation-in-colombia-fell-to-historic-lows-in-2023-how-did-they-achieve-the-drop/">Colombia/u2019s COP has also been praised for its inclusive approach, and for managing to foster \u201cmajor engagement on the sidelines\u201d according to WRI - including on the Amazon rainforest, cities, and food and land use.<\/p>\n<h3>A fair - and lucrative - deal for genetic data from nature<\/h3><p>One win from COP16 is that governments agreed on a global levy on products made with genetic data from nature. Known as Digital Sequence Information (DSI), pharmaceutical and chemical companies have thus far been able to access the information for free on global databases.<\/p>\n<p>Now nature-rich countries will see some of the gigantic revenues these products generate. Under the terms of the new DSI fund, companies will need to contribute 1 per cent of profits or 0.1 per cent of their revenue if they meet two of three criteria: sales of more than $50 million (\u20ac45.8m), profits of more than $5m (\u20ac4.6m), and $20m (\u20ac18m) in total assets.<\/p>\n<p>This funding will be ring-fenced for investment in nature conservation and restoration. At least 50 per cent of it will be allocated to Indigenous peoples, who play an outsized role in protecting nature.<\/p>\n<p>There are some caveats here, however. With COP attendance dwindling, it was unclear if enough countries were present to formalise the vote that passed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The deal is voluntary and national governments will need to introduce the rules domestically. If approved, some estimate that the fund could generate more than \u00a31bn a year for nature conservation.<\/p>\n<h3>Indigenous communities are given a permanent seat at the table<\/h3><p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2021//11//06//what-can-we-learn-from-indigenous-communities-about-safeguarding-the-environment/">Indigenous peoples<\/strong><\/a> and local communities also secured a permanent role in the official decision-making of the UN biodiversity process.<\/p>\n<p>Previously represented by an informal working group, this vital demographic will now have a permanent body, which means they can contribute to negotiations without being invited by governments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer \u201cJing\u201d Corpuz, a lead negotiator for the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB), described it as a \u201cwatershed moment in the history of multilateral environmental agreements\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time a UN environment body has made this decision. It is also the first time a COP text has mentioned the role of Afro-descendant peoples in conservation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy formally recognising Afro-descendants as key stakeholders, COP16 acknowledges both the historical injustices we have endured and the critical role we play in preserving biodiversity through traditional knowledge and practices,\u201d comments Esther Ojulari, co-director of Baobab Center for Innovation in Ethnic-Racial, Gender, and Environmental Justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis inclusion in the Convention on Biological Diversity framework sets a precedent for environmental policies that honour racial justice and equity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another point on the plus side was an agreement on ways of describing Ecologically Biologically Significant Areas (EBSAs) in the oceans. This takes the world closer to achieving its target of conserving 30 per cent of the seas by 2030.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8805594,8805614\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//10//22//an-achievement-for-the-azoreans-eu-makes-leap-towards-30x30-with-massive-ocean-protection-/">/u2018An achievement for the Azoreans\u2019: EU makes leap towards 30x30 with massive ocean protection project<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//10//23//cops-are-struggling-to-keep-15c-alive-are-there-better-forms-of-climate-diplomacy/">COPs are struggling to keep 1.5C alive. Are there better forms of climate diplomacy?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>What\u2019s next for biodiversity action and the road to COP29<\/h2><p>With the next UN climate conference, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//10//11//the-finance-cop-heres-whats-on-the-agenda-at-the-cop29-climate-summit-in-baku-next-month/">COP29, days away, much discussion was held on the need to link solutions to the entwined climate and biodiversity crises.<\/p>\n<p>After a disappointing COP16, campaigners are now hoping that leaders can pick up the mantle in Baku next week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking beyond COP16, we cannot continue at this snail's pace, and decisive, practical action must continue across the board,\u201d says Weller. \u201cNegotiators at COP29 must keep nature front and centre of the climate agenda. Governments must work harder to get their national action plans through.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n<p>She emphasises that an \u2018all-of-society approach\u2019 is needed - encompassing the private sector, governments, philanthropists, and NGOs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolitical leaders should now return home and start by raising nature to the top of their political priority list,\u201d adds Davis. \u201cAll countries should start mainstreaming their biodiversity and climate goals into sectoral policies, including for agriculture, land use, infrastructure and energy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After a perceived lack of leadership from the EU, China, Canada and other powerful players in Cali, there will be an even greater demand for the bloc and wealthy countries to step up at 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CALI PKG by Cyril","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"COP16 Biodiversity Summit: Urgent calls for action as global leaders gather in Cali","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"COP16 Biodiversity Summit: Global leaders gather in Cali","titleListing2":"COP16 Biodiversity Summit: Urgent Calls for Action as Global Leaders Gather in Cali","leadin":"140 ministers and a dozen heads of state are expected to participate in the second week of the conference.","summary":"140 ministers and a dozen heads of state are expected to participate in the second week of the conference.","keySentence":"","url":"cop16-biodiversity-summit-urgent-calls-for-action-as-global-leaders-gather-in-cali","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/10\/29\/cop16-biodiversity-summit-urgent-calls-for-action-as-global-leaders-gather-in-cali","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The United Nations COP16 biodiversity summit is entering its final week in the Colombian city of Cali, where international negotiations are underway to clarify the implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), adopted by nearly 200 countries at the end of 2022.\n\nThe conference is pivotal in shaping global biodiversity policies, focusing on the urgent need for action against environmental degradation.\n\nThe GBF includes 23 targets, including the famous \u201830 by 30\u2019 target in which more than 100 countries committed to protecting 30% of the planet\u2019s lands and oceans by 2030.\n\nThe UNEP report found countries have made some headway on pledges, but that expansion of the global network must accelerate over the next six years to meet the goal.\n\nThe report says 17.6% of land and inland waters and 8.4% of the ocean and coastal areas globally are within documented protected and conserved areas.\n\n\u201cThe increase in coverage since 2020, equivalent to more than twice the size of Colombia, is to be celebrated,\u201d UNEP said in a news release. \u201cBut it is a rise of less than 0.5 percentage points in both realms.\u201d\n\nProgress remains slow\n\nThe summit in Cali is being attended by representatives of indigenous communities from all over America, who are calling on countries to honour these commitments they made two years ago.\n\n\u201cOur governments are not making quick decisions; they are slow to implement changes. They are focused on enforcing laws and standardising policies but are not taking action to reverse harmful activities or work toward restoring and conserving biodiversity,\u201d says Teddy Sinacay Tomas, President of CECONSEC, an organisation which defends the territorial and civil rights of indigenous communities in the region.\n\nSandra Valenzuela, CEO of WWF Colombia, also highlighted the need for accelerated action. \"So far, we have 17% globally in terrestrial areas and only 8% in marine and coastal regions,\" she said.\n\nValenzuela also stressed that national action plans must not only enhance protection but also promote restoration efforts to achieve these targets effectively.\n\nMeanwhile, the European Union has positioned itself as a leader in the fight for biodiversity.\n\n\u201cWe had Natura 2000 which is a vast network of connected protected sites. Because of that and the nature restoration law, we are quite confident that the 2030 goal for the land, we will relatively soon reach,\u201d says Florika Fink-Hooijer, Director-General of the Environment Department at the European Commission.\n\nFink-Hooijer did, however, acknowledge the complexities surrounding water protection and the need for a comprehensive water resilience strategy.\n\nIn addition to environmental policies, major financial discussions are underway.\n\nAccording to the United Nations, there is an urgent need to triple green investments to meet the ambitious targets set for 2030.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The United Nations COP16 biodiversity summit is entering its final week in the Colombian city of Cali, where international negotiations are underway to clarify the implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), adopted by nearly 200 countries at the end of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The conference is pivotal in shaping global biodiversity policies, focusing on the urgent need for action against environmental degradation.<\/p>\n<p>The GBF includes 23 targets, including the famous \u201830 by 30\u2019 target in which more than 100 countries committed to protecting 30% of the planet\u2019s lands and oceans by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>The UNEP report found countries have made some headway on pledges, but that expansion of the global network must accelerate over the next six years to meet the goal.<\/p>\n<p>The report says 17.6% of land and inland waters and 8.4% of the ocean and coastal areas globally are within documented protected and conserved areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe increase in coverage since 2020, equivalent to more than twice the size of Colombia, is to be celebrated,\u201d UNEP said in a news release. \u201cBut it is a rise of less than 0.5 percentage points in both realms.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Progress remains slow<\/h2><p>The summit in Cali is being attended by representatives of indigenous communities from all over America, who are calling on countries to honour these commitments they made two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur governments are not making quick decisions; they are slow to implement changes. They are focused on enforcing laws and standardising policies but are not taking action to reverse harmful activities or work toward restoring and conserving biodiversity,\u201d says Teddy Sinacay Tomas, President of CECONSEC, an organisation which defends the territorial and civil rights of indigenous communities in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Sandra Valenzuela, CEO of WWF Colombia, also highlighted the need for accelerated action. \"So far, we have 17% globally in terrestrial areas and only 8% in marine and coastal regions,\" she said.<\/p>\n<p>Valenzuela also stressed that national action plans must not only enhance protection but also promote restoration efforts to achieve these targets effectively.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the European Union has positioned itself as a leader in the fight for biodiversity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had Natura 2000 which is a vast network of connected protected sites. 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The Amazon is a crucial carbon sink meaning it sucks up carbon emissions that would otherwise contribute to global warming.\n\nThe drop happened between 2022 and 2023 and comes off the back of years of campaigning by Indigenous activists who depend on the Amazon for their homes and livelihood.\n\nThe decrease \u201cmeans that 44,262 hectares of forest stopped being cut down,\u201d Colombian Environment Minister Susana Muhamad told journalists. \u201cIt is very good news, but we definitely cannot say that the battle is won. We continue to confront illicit economies.\"\n\nThe data was released as Colombia ramps up to host the COP16 United Nations biodiversity summit in the southwestern city of Cali in October.\n\nHow did Colombia achieve record low deforestation?\n\nWhen elected in 2022, President Gustavo Petro vowed to halt record high rates of deforestation in the Amazon by limiting agribusiness expansion into the forest and creating reserves where Indigenous communities and others are allowed to harvest rubber, acai and other non-timber forest products.\n\nAdvancing peace talks between the government and guerrilla groups in the area, along with financial incentives for farmers in the Amazon to help with conservation, drove the drop. It came after deforestation had fallen about 29% in 2022.\n\nEnvironmental experts over past years have said the decrease in deforestation was also likely tied to orders from dissident groups of FARC guerrillas forbidding deforestation. \n\nWhat does Colombia need to do to keep deforestation down?\n\nMinister Muhamad said the strong presence of government armed forces in guerrilla-controlled areas, as well as progress made with peace talks, will be key to maintaining a downward trend.\n\nBut next year's figures don't look as promising. A significant rise in deforestation has already been recorded due to the effects of dry weather caused by El Ni\u00f1o, Muhamad said, a weather phenomenon that warms the central Pacific. \n\nMass cattle ranching, drug crops and illegal mining and logging continue to drive deforestation in the Andean nation, Muhamad said.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Deforestation in Colombia fell by 36% in a year, marking a new record low.<\/p>\n<p>It's especially good news the world's largest rainforest, the Amazon, one-third of which is in Colombia. The Amazon is a crucial carbon sink meaning it sucks up carbon emissions that would otherwise contribute to global warming.<\/p>\n<p>The drop happened between 2022 and 2023 and comes off the back of years of campaigning by Indigenous activists who depend on the Amazon for their homes and livelihood.<\/p>\n<p>The decrease \u201cmeans that 44,262 hectares of forest stopped being cut down,\u201d Colombian Environment Minister Susana Muhamad told journalists. \u201cIt is very good news, but we definitely cannot say that the battle is won. We continue to confront illicit economies.\"<\/p>\n<p>The data was released as Colombia ramps up to host the COP16 United Nations biodiversity summit in the southwestern city of Cali in October.<\/p>\n<h2>How did Colombia achieve record low deforestation?<\/h2><p>When elected in 2022, President Gustavo Petro vowed to halt record high rates of deforestation in the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//02//14//amazon-tipping-point-up-to-47-forest-threatened-by-climate-change-and-deforestation-study-/">Amazon by limiting agribusiness expansion into the forest and creating reserves where Indigenous communities and others are allowed to harvest rubber, acai and other non-timber forest products.<\/p>\n<p>Advancing peace talks between the government and guerrilla groups in the area, along with financial incentives for <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//07//07//we-are-the-first-impacted-by-climate-change-why-europes-rural-farmers-support-green-polici/">farmers in the Amazon to help with conservation, drove the drop. It came after deforestation had fallen about 29% in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Environmental experts over past years have said the decrease in deforestation was also likely tied to orders from dissident groups of FARC guerrillas forbidding <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//04//11//zara-hm-the-european-retail-giants-tied-to-land-grabbing-and-deforestation-in-brazil/">deforestation. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8307092,7608634\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//03//14//governments-climate-policies-tackling-deforestation-and-nature-double-in-12-months-study-f/">Governments' climate policies tackling deforestation and nature double in 12 months, study finds<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//05//16//deforestation-in-the-brazilian-amazon-fell-by-68-in-april-but-will-it-continue/">Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by 68% in April - but will it continue? <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>What does Colombia need to do to keep deforestation down?<\/h2><p>Minister Muhamad said the strong presence of government armed forces in guerrilla-controlled areas, as well as progress made with peace talks, will be key to maintaining a downward trend.<\/p>\n<p>But next year's figures don't look as promising. A significant rise in deforestation has already been recorded due to the effects of dry weather caused by <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//05//01//el-nino-not-climate-change-key-to-drought-that-caused-panama-canal-disruption-study-says/">El Ni\u00f1o<\/strong><\/a>, Muhamad said, a weather phenomenon that warms the central Pacific. <\/p>\n<p>Mass cattle ranching, drug crops and illegal mining and logging continue to drive <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//01//03//lula-tells-cop27-brazil-is-back-as-he-vows-to-end-deforestation-in-the-amazon/">deforestation in the Andean nation, Muhamad 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imagine a reality in which our economies and energy systems are released from the shackles of the fossil fuel industry, Colombian President Gustavo Petro writes.","keySentence":"","url":"its-the-amazons-turn-to-lead-on-just-transition-decriminalisation-and-global-climate-actio","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/03\/21\/its-the-amazons-turn-to-lead-on-just-transition-decriminalisation-and-global-climate-actio","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"At the United Nations climate conference in Dubai last year, I called the climate crisis, \u201cthe Crisis of Life,\u201d and joined island states in calling for an equitable phase-out of coal, oil, and gas.\u00a0 \n\nWhile the nations of the world finally agreed to \u201ctransition away from fossil fuels in energy systems\u201d, many governments and corporations continue to ignore the scientific imperative. \n\nThe stark reality remains: the only way to avoid the worst of the climate emergency is to stop the production of new fossil fuels and negotiate a fair process to quit their use, in line with scientific recommendations.\u00a0 \n\nIt is very unfortunate, if not disheartening, to see the lack of commitment to these principles, towards a rapid and equitable energy transition. \n\nAnd yet, it is not a far-fetched idea. Since Dubai, the US has announced a pause in the expansion of methane gas export terminals; Europe put on the table a target to reduce its emissions by 90% by 2040; and even Saudi Arabia pressed the brakes on plans to expand oil production. \n\nThese are all signs that we can plan for our carbon-free future and the transition is well underway.\u00a0 \n\nThe crisis we're enduring is not just about climate \n\nAs Colombia prepares to host the next UN Biodiversity Conference, and Brazil takes the lead of the G20 and UN climate negotiations in 2025 at COP30, we Amazon countries find ourselves in a unique position to lead global action for people and the planet. \n\nJust as our forests breathe life, we must inspire world leaders to set their sights on a global phase-out of fossil fuels, with rich countries being the first to end their use.\u00a0 \n\nThe G20 and the upcoming international climate negotiations are the ideal stages to establish frameworks for phase-out while enabling the continued sustainable development of the Global South.\u00a0 \n\nBy prioritising the well-being of our people, protecting biodiversity and safeguarding life on Earth for present and future generations, we can usher in a new era of prosperity. \n\nThe climate crisis is not limited to environmental concerns; it is a clear threat to the very fabric of our societies, linked to wars, violence at our borders, wars on drugs, and anti-democratic forces. \n\nAs we wean ourselves off the poisonous drip of the oil cartels, we must also acknowledge the gross failure \u2014 and serious consequences \u2014 of the so-called \u201cwar on drugs\u201d, another Crisis of Life for our region.\u00a0 \n\nHalf a century of 'war on drugs' only made matters worse \n\nThe illicit drug trade has distorted agriculture across Amazonia, increased logging, strengthened illegal mining, accelerated environmental destruction, and spread violence throughout the region.\u00a0 \n\nWe must end the current cycle, where poor segments of our societies \u2014 in both the Global North and Global South \u2014 are forced underground, impoverishing regions that are essentially blocked out of economic opportunity, and our youth humiliated through lack of meaningful work, dangerous migratory pathways, and baptism by violence. \n\nAdvocates of a tougher approach to drugs \u2014 a disastrous, 50-year-old policy foisted upon our region \u2014 have failed to recognise how ending prohibition and regulating drug markets is a smart, win-win solution, simultaneously addressing economic, social and climate problems. \n\nAnd most worryingly, the burden of all these threats, including devastating climate impacts \u2014 from deadly fires in Chile and Colombia to long-lasting droughts in Europe and North Africa and heat waves across Latin and South America, which on 16 March created feel-like temperatures of 62\u00baC in Rio de Janeiro, and indeed to the tragic wars across the globe\u00a0\u2014 fall disproportionately on the shoulders of the poor, jeopardising decades of progress in reducing inequalities.\u00a0 \n\nWe can forge a path to a better world \n\nThis is an undeniable reality we can no longer afford to ignore, symptoms of a planet facing the consequences of our collective addiction to fossil fuels and relentless deforestation, especially in the Amazon. \n\nFurthermore, such scenarios create fertile ground for the dangerous discourse of the far-right, anti-democratic forces, which exploit this chaos in defence of the free market and deregulation as the ultimate panacea.\u00a0 \n\nIt seems easier to resign ourselves to a world marked by constant climate catastrophes than to imagine a reality in which our economies and energy systems are released from the shackles of the fossil fuel industry.\u00a0 \n\nHowever, armed with knowledge, technology, popular support and a moral obligation, we already have the means to forge a path to a better world. \n\nColombia is now leading by example, demonstrating how economic growth and improved livelihoods follow biodiversity protection, peace, and clean energy.\u00a0 \n\nThis energetic transition, emanating from our living forests, creates a ripple effect, inspiring other nations to follow our example.\u00a0 \n\nTogether we can overcome the constraints of fossil fuel dependence and the war on drugs by embracing sustainable, inclusive and smart development.\u00a0 \n\nThe benefits are manifold: from addressing climate change to creating better conditions for democracy to flourish. \n\nIt is time to rise to the current circumstances. It is time for us to recognise our responsibility and act decisively. \n\nThe world is watching and the decisions we make today will define our legacy for future generations. \n\nDr Gustavo Petro Urrego is the 34th President of the Republic of Colombia. \n\nAt Euronews, we believe all views matter. Contact us at view@euronews.com to send pitches or submissions and be part of the conversation. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>At the United Nations climate conference in Dubai last year, I called the climate crisis, \u201cthe Crisis of Life,\u201d and joined island states in calling for an equitable phase-out of coal, oil, and gas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While the nations of the world finally agreed to \u201ctransition away from fossil fuels in energy systems\u201d, many governments and corporations continue to ignore the scientific imperative.<\/p>\n<p>The stark reality remains: the only way to avoid the worst of the climate emergency is to stop the production of new fossil fuels and negotiate a fair process to quit their use, in line with scientific recommendations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is very unfortunate, if not disheartening, to see the lack of commitment to these principles, towards a rapid and equitable energy transition.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, it is not a far-fetched idea. Since Dubai, the US has announced a pause in the expansion of methane gas export terminals; Europe put on the table a target to reduce its emissions by 90% by 2040; and even Saudi Arabia pressed the brakes on plans to expand oil production.<\/p>\n<p>These are all signs that we can plan for our carbon-free future and the transition is well underway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>The crisis we're enduring is not just about climate<\/h2><p>As Colombia prepares to host the next UN Biodiversity Conference, and Brazil takes the lead of the G20 and UN climate negotiations in 2025 at COP30, we Amazon countries find ourselves in a unique position to lead global action for people and the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Just as our forests breathe life, we must inspire world leaders to set their sights on a global phase-out of fossil fuels, with rich countries being the first to end their use.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The G20 and the upcoming international climate negotiations are the ideal stages to establish frameworks for phase-out while enabling the continued sustainable development of the Global South.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">We must end the current cycle, where poor segments of our societies \u2014 in both the Global North and Global South \u2014 are forced underground [...] and our youth humiliated through lack of meaningful work, dangerous migratory pathways, and baptism by violence.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//31//98//78//808x539_cmsv2_6a5fa5b1-3541-5876-8fb2-722646e21fff-8319878.jpg/" alt=\"An indigenous man passes his hand over the Brazilian flag during the Amazon Dialogue meetings at the Hangar convention center in Belem, August 2023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/31\/98\/78\/384x256_cmsv2_6a5fa5b1-3541-5876-8fb2-722646e21fff-8319878.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/31\/98\/78\/640x427_cmsv2_6a5fa5b1-3541-5876-8fb2-722646e21fff-8319878.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/31\/98\/78\/750x500_cmsv2_6a5fa5b1-3541-5876-8fb2-722646e21fff-8319878.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/31\/98\/78\/828x552_cmsv2_6a5fa5b1-3541-5876-8fb2-722646e21fff-8319878.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/31\/98\/78\/1080x720_cmsv2_6a5fa5b1-3541-5876-8fb2-722646e21fff-8319878.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/31\/98\/78\/1200x800_cmsv2_6a5fa5b1-3541-5876-8fb2-722646e21fff-8319878.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/31\/98\/78\/1920x1281_cmsv2_6a5fa5b1-3541-5876-8fb2-722646e21fff-8319878.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">An indigenous man passes his hand over the Brazilian flag during the Amazon Dialogue meetings at the Hangar convention center in Belem, August 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Eraldo Peres\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>By prioritising the well-being of our people, protecting biodiversity and safeguarding life on Earth for present and future generations, we can usher in a new era of prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>The climate crisis is not limited to environmental concerns; it is a clear threat to the very fabric of our societies, linked to wars, violence at our borders, wars on drugs, and anti-democratic forces.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8316222,8315752\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//03//19//ocean-heat-sea-level-rise-and-glacier-loss-wmo-report-reveals-how-2023-smashed-climate-rec/">Ocean heat, sea level rise and glacier loss: WMO report reveals how 2023 smashed climate records<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//03//19//too-far-or-not-far-enough-these-are-europes-most-and-least-popular-climate-policies/">Too far or not far enough? These are Europe\u2019s most and least popular climate policies<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>As we wean ourselves off the poisonous drip of the oil cartels, we must also acknowledge the gross failure \u2014 and serious consequences \u2014 of the so-called \u201cwar on drugs\u201d, another Crisis of Life for our region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Half a century of 'war on drugs' only made matters worse<\/h2><p>The illicit drug trade has distorted agriculture across Amazonia, increased logging, strengthened illegal mining, accelerated environmental destruction, and spread violence throughout the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We must end the current cycle, where poor segments of our societies \u2014 in both the Global North and Global South \u2014 are forced underground, impoverishing regions that are essentially blocked out of economic opportunity, and our youth humiliated through lack of meaningful work, dangerous migratory pathways, and baptism by violence.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">This is an undeniable reality we can no longer afford to ignore, symptoms of a planet facing the consequences of our collective addiction to fossil fuels and relentless deforestation, especially in the Amazon.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//31//98//78//808x539_cmsv2_40520114-a730-5d02-9e15-b2ad02c9cae5-8319878.jpg/" alt=\"Rescue workers point at a fire burning on the slopes of the mountains surrounding Nemocon, north of Bogota, January 2024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/31\/98\/78\/384x256_cmsv2_40520114-a730-5d02-9e15-b2ad02c9cae5-8319878.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/31\/98\/78\/640x427_cmsv2_40520114-a730-5d02-9e15-b2ad02c9cae5-8319878.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/31\/98\/78\/750x500_cmsv2_40520114-a730-5d02-9e15-b2ad02c9cae5-8319878.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/31\/98\/78\/828x552_cmsv2_40520114-a730-5d02-9e15-b2ad02c9cae5-8319878.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/31\/98\/78\/1080x720_cmsv2_40520114-a730-5d02-9e15-b2ad02c9cae5-8319878.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/31\/98\/78\/1200x800_cmsv2_40520114-a730-5d02-9e15-b2ad02c9cae5-8319878.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/31\/98\/78\/1920x1281_cmsv2_40520114-a730-5d02-9e15-b2ad02c9cae5-8319878.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Rescue workers point at a fire burning on the slopes of the mountains surrounding Nemocon, north of Bogota, January 2024<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Ivan Valencia<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Advocates of a tougher approach to drugs \u2014 a disastrous, 50-year-old policy foisted upon our region \u2014 have failed to recognise how ending prohibition and regulating drug markets is a smart, win-win solution, simultaneously addressing economic, social and climate problems.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8293794,8090170\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//03//08//climate-change-remains-worse-for-women-and-girls-but-it-doesnt-have-to-be/">Climate change remains worse for women and girls \u2014 but it doesn\u2019t have to be<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//12//06//climate-change-is-causing-death-and-destruction-climate-action-is-our-only-hope-for-surviv/">Climate change is causing death and destruction \u2014 climate action is our only hope for survival<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>And most worryingly, the burden of all these threats, including devastating climate impacts \u2014 from deadly fires in Chile and Colombia to long-lasting droughts in Europe and North Africa and heat waves across Latin and South America, which on 16 March created feel-like temperatures of 62\u00baC in Rio de Janeiro, and indeed to the tragic wars across the globe\u00a0\u2014 fall disproportionately on the shoulders of the poor, jeopardising decades of progress in reducing inequalities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>We can forge a path to a better world<\/h2><p>This is an undeniable reality we can no longer afford to ignore, symptoms of a planet facing the consequences of our collective addiction to fossil fuels and relentless deforestation, especially in the Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, such scenarios create fertile ground for the dangerous discourse of the far-right, anti-democratic forces, which exploit this chaos in defence of the free market and deregulation as the ultimate panacea.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It seems easier to resign ourselves to a world marked by constant climate catastrophes than to imagine a reality in which our economies and energy systems are released from the shackles of the fossil fuel industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8094578,7974486\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//10//18//albania-colombia-moldova-which-countries-are-doing-the-most-for-air-pollution-and-climate/">Albania, Colombia, Moldova: Which countries are doing the most for air pollution and climate?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//12//08//indigenous-children-in-colombia-were-given-cameras-to-capture-climate-change-here-are-thei/">Indigenous children in Colombia were given cameras to capture climate change. Here are their photos<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>However, armed with knowledge, technology, popular support and a moral obligation, we already have the means to forge a path to a better world.<\/p>\n<p>Colombia is now leading by example, demonstrating how economic growth and improved livelihoods follow biodiversity protection, peace, and clean energy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This energetic transition, emanating from our living forests, creates a ripple effect, inspiring other nations to follow our example.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Together we can overcome the constraints of fossil fuel dependence and the war on drugs by embracing sustainable, inclusive and smart development.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The benefits are manifold: from addressing climate change to creating better conditions for democracy to flourish.<\/p>\n<p>It is time to rise to the current circumstances. It is time for us to recognise our responsibility and act decisively.<\/p>\n<p>The world is watching and the decisions we make today will define our legacy for future generations.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dr Gustavo Petro Urrego is the 34th President of the Republic of Colombia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At Euronews, we believe all views matter. Contact us at <a href=https://www.euronews.com/news/america/\"mailto:view@euronews.com\">view@euronews.com to send pitches or submissions and be part of the conversation.<\/em><\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1711026844,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1711029829,"firstPublishedAt":1711029831,"lastPublishedAt":1711547897,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/31\/98\/78\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_8eabc718-d5da-5d50-96aa-2524522ec428-8319878.jpg","altText":"Colombia's President Gustavo Petro","caption":"Colombia's President Gustavo Petro","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Presidency of Colombia\/Euronews","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1600,"height":900},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/31\/98\/78\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_40520114-a730-5d02-9e15-b2ad02c9cae5-8319878.jpg","altText":"Rescue workers point at a fire burning on the slopes of the mountains surrounding Nemocon, north of Bogota, January 2024","caption":"Rescue workers point at a fire burning on the slopes of the mountains surrounding Nemocon, north of Bogota, January 2024","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Ivan Valencia","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":683},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/31\/98\/78\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_6a5fa5b1-3541-5876-8fb2-722646e21fff-8319878.jpg","altText":"An indigenous man passes his hand over the Brazilian flag during the Amazon Dialogue meetings at the Hangar convention center in Belem, August 2023","caption":"An indigenous man passes his hand over the Brazilian flag during the Amazon Dialogue meetings at the Hangar convention center in Belem, August 2023","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Eraldo Peres\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez: Is it wise to go against a dead man's wishes? ","titleListing2":"Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez's unfinished novel was published by his sons against the Nobel laureate's wishes.","leadin":"Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez's unfinished novel was published by his sons against the Nobel laureate's wishes.","summary":"Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez's unfinished novel was published by his sons against the Nobel laureate's wishes.","keySentence":"","url":"was-it-wise-for-garcia-marquezs-sons-to-publish-a-novel-their-father-did-not-want-released","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2024\/03\/13\/was-it-wise-for-garcia-marquezs-sons-to-publish-a-novel-their-father-did-not-want-released","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez\u2019s two sons disregarded their father's wishes not to publish his last work of fiction posthumously, but judging by the reaction to \"Until August\", they perhaps should have listened to him.\u00a0 \n\nReviews of the book, which was published ten years after Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez\u2019s death in 2014, have veered from being barely kind to others which said it did have a few merits.\u00a0 \n\nHowever, despite the generally bad press, this literary episode has raised the question of whether precious works of renowned writers should see the light of day, even against their wishes.\u00a0 \n\nIs published and be damned always the best policy for the relatives left behind when the writer casts off this mortal coil?\u00a0\u00a0 \n\n\"Until August\" tells the story of a middle-aged woman who travels every year to visit her mother's grave and takes a new lover despite being happily married.\u00a0 \n\nJustifying their decision to publish, Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez's son Gonzalo told the BBC that his father \"wasn't in a position to judge his work as he could only see the flaws but not the interesting things that were there\". \n\nMixed reception \n\nGarc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez was suffering from senile dementia before his death at the age of 87 in Mexico City.\u00a0 \n\nGonzalo said he didn't \"find it as disastrous as Gabo had judged it\" and that it was a valuable addition to his work because it showed a new side to him and was \"unique\". \n\nMany critics have not been so generous.\u00a0 \n\nThe New York Times sniffed that the book by the late Colombian master and Nobel laureate was a disappointment. \n\n\u201cIt would be hard to imagine a more unsatisfying goodbye from the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude,\u201d wrote Michael Greenberg. \n\n\"One Hundred Years of Solitude\" is the 1967 novel which introduced the world to Latin American literature.\u00a0 \n\nIn contrast, Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez\u2019s last offering is \u201chardly sufficient for it to be called a novella, much less a finished novel\u201d, wrote Greenburg. \n\nIn Spain, where Garc\u00eda Marquez spent some formative years when he lived in Barcelona in the 1970s, critics were a little bit more kind. \n\nNadal Suau, writing in El Pa\u00eds newspaper, wrote: \"It has virtues but it is not advisable to be deceived about its true dimensions: they are small.\"\u00a0 This appears to be another way of saying the book has few merits.\u00a0 \n\nHowever, in Britain the Daily Telegraph's Sarah Perry was more charitable.\u00a0 \n\n\"It's as if the book contained both Marquez the elder and Marquez the younger, with the perception and weary good humour of old age conveyed in the searching, tentative manner of the apprentice,\" she wrote. \n\nDisobeying wishes?\u00a0 \n\nLike Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez, a\u00a0succession of literary greats have ordered some of their works should be destroyed before their deaths.\u00a0 \n\nHowever, when their relatives disobeyed it was sometimes to the benefit of the wider world.\u00a0 \n\nBefore author Franz Kafka died from tuberculosis in 1924, he told friend Max Brod to burn all of his works.\u00a0 \n\nDisregarding his friend's wishes, Brod later published his collection of works including \"The Trial\", \"The Castle\" and \"Amerika\". \n\n\"The Trial\" is widely acknowledged as a classic, depicting the struggle of the individual against the powerful state.\u00a0 \n\nAccording to legend, Roman poet Virgil asked for the scrolls on which he wrote his epic \"The Aeneid\" to be burned because he feared he would be unable to finish the work before his death.\u00a0 \n\nThe epic poem is a criticism of Western civilisation and its worst traits like violence, chauvinism and imperial yearning.\u00a0 It is still regarded a classic.\u00a0 \n\nVladimir Nabokov, the writer of \"Lolita\", asked his wife to destroy his final novel, \"The Original of Laura\", if he did not live to complete it.\u00a0 \n\nIn 2009,\u00a0 thirty years after Nabokov's death, his son released the unfinished work, which had been written in pencil on index cards. \n\nThese episodes prove, perhaps, that the death-bed wishes of great writers are not always to be obeyed.\u00a0 \n\nWhat would the world be without these works of Kaka and Virgil? \n\nIt perhaps raises a wider question which goes beyond literary greats. How often do us mere mortals decide to ignore the death bed wishes of our loved ones?\u00a0 \n\nThis is hard to know but one thing which is interesting is why we might do this? It was suggested that Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez's two sons might have chosen to publish \"Until August\" out of love for their father, perhaps considering that the book was better than it really was.\u00a0 \n\nOf course, the cloud of grief often obscures good judgement about why our relatives expressly ordered that they did or did not want something to happen. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez\u2019s two sons disregarded their father's wishes not to publish his last work of fiction posthumously, but judging by the reaction to \"Until August\", they perhaps should have listened to him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reviews of the book, which was published ten years after Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez\u2019s death in 2014, have veered from being barely kind to others which said it did have a few merits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, despite the generally bad press, this literary episode has raised the question of whether precious works of renowned writers should see the light of day, even against their wishes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Is published and be damned always the best policy for the relatives left behind when the writer casts off this mortal coil?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"Until August\" tells the story of a middle-aged woman who travels every year to visit her mother's grave and takes a new lover despite being happily married.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Justifying their decision to publish, Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez's son Gonzalo told the BBC that his father \"wasn't in a position to judge his work as he could only see the flaws but not the interesting things that were there\".<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6767578125\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" 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addition to his work because it showed a new side to him and was \"unique\".<\/p>\n<p>Many critics have not been so generous.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times sniffed that the book by the late Colombian master and Nobel laureate was a disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be hard to imagine a more unsatisfying goodbye from the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude,\u201d wrote Michael Greenberg.<\/p>\n<p>\"One Hundred Years of Solitude\" is the 1967 novel which introduced the world to Latin American literature.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez\u2019s last offering is \u201chardly sufficient for it to be called a novella, much less a finished novel\u201d, wrote Greenburg.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.658203125\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure 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All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In Spain, where Garc\u00eda Marquez spent some formative years when he lived in Barcelona in the 1970s, critics were a little bit more kind.<\/p>\n<p>Nadal Suau, writing in El Pa\u00eds newspaper, wrote: \"It has virtues but it is not advisable to be deceived about its true dimensions: they are small.\"\u00a0 This appears to be another way of saying the book has few merits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, in Britain the Daily Telegraph's Sarah Perry was more charitable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"It's as if the book contained both Marquez the elder and Marquez the younger, with the perception and weary good humour of old age conveyed in the searching, tentative manner of the apprentice,\" she wrote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.67578125\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//30//32//50//808x546_cmsv2_7f9c71d2-0b80-5f30-9097-45c9509d9390-8303250.jpg/" alt=\"Mercedes Barcha, center, widow of Colombian Nobel Literature laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez is accompanied by her sons Gonzalo, left, and Rodrigo, right\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/30\/32\/50\/384x260_cmsv2_7f9c71d2-0b80-5f30-9097-45c9509d9390-8303250.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/30\/32\/50\/640x433_cmsv2_7f9c71d2-0b80-5f30-9097-45c9509d9390-8303250.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/30\/32\/50\/750x507_cmsv2_7f9c71d2-0b80-5f30-9097-45c9509d9390-8303250.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/30\/32\/50\/828x560_cmsv2_7f9c71d2-0b80-5f30-9097-45c9509d9390-8303250.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/30\/32\/50\/1080x730_cmsv2_7f9c71d2-0b80-5f30-9097-45c9509d9390-8303250.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/30\/32\/50\/1200x811_cmsv2_7f9c71d2-0b80-5f30-9097-45c9509d9390-8303250.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/30\/32\/50\/1920x1298_cmsv2_7f9c71d2-0b80-5f30-9097-45c9509d9390-8303250.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Mercedes Barcha, center, widow of Colombian Nobel Literature laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez is accompanied by her sons Gonzalo, left, and Rodrigo, right<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Rebecca Blackwell\/AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2><strong>Disobeying wishes?<\/strong><\/h2><p>Like Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez, a\u00a0succession of literary greats have ordered some of their works should be destroyed before their deaths.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, when their relatives disobeyed it was sometimes to the benefit of the wider world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before author Franz Kafka died from tuberculosis in 1924, he told friend Max Brod to burn all of his works.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Disregarding his friend's wishes, Brod later published his collection of works including \"The Trial\", \"The Castle\" and \"Amerika\".<\/p>\n<p>\"The Trial\" is widely acknowledged as a classic, depicting the struggle of the individual against the powerful state.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to legend, Roman poet Virgil asked for the scrolls on which he wrote his epic \"The Aeneid\" to be burned because he feared he would be unable to finish the work before his death.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The epic poem is a criticism of Western civilisation and its worst traits like violence, chauvinism and imperial yearning.\u00a0 It is still regarded a classic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Nabokov, the writer of \"Lolita\", asked his wife to destroy his final novel, \"The Original of Laura\", if he did not live to complete it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2009,\u00a0 thirty years after Nabokov's death, his son released the unfinished work, which had been written in pencil on index cards.<\/p>\n<p>These episodes prove, perhaps, that the death-bed wishes of great writers are not always to be obeyed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What would the world be without these works of Kaka and Virgil?<\/p>\n<p>It perhaps raises a wider question which goes beyond literary greats. How often do us mere mortals decide to ignore the death bed wishes of our loved ones?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is hard to know but one thing which is interesting is why we might do this? It was suggested that Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez's two sons might have chosen to publish \"Until August\" out of love for their father, perhaps considering that the book was better than it really was.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the cloud of grief often obscures good judgement about why our relatives expressly ordered that they did or did not want something to happen.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1710319325,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1710333459,"firstPublishedAt":1710333461,"lastPublishedAt":1710333461,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/30\/32\/50\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_c3cce0bf-c8f4-5abb-9da6-04ace1df67a5-8303250.jpg","altText":"xx","caption":"xx","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Fernando Vergara\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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These are a few of the things that Indigenous children in northern Colombia chose to focus on when handed cameras to capture climate change. \n\nThe Wayuu tribe have lived off the land for centuries, but a series of crippling droughts, erratic rainfall and extremely high temperatures are testing their ability to survive in La Guajira. \n\nAnd, as in many parts of the world, it\u2019s children who are bearing the brunt of this local climate crisis. \n\n\u201cJust one in ten Wayuu children has access to clean drinking water,\u201d says Felipe Cortes, head of advocacy at Save the Children in Colombia . In La Guajira, the official death rate for children from malnutrition is six times that of the national average.\u201d \n\nTo empower these young people to tell their own stories about climate change, and teach them new skills, the charity recently held a workshop in a small Wayuu community with award-winning photographer Angela Ponce. A dozen children were then given simple film cameras to document their lives for a week. \n\nOn Children and Youth Day at the COP28 climate summit, the resulting images are a powerful reminder of the need to centre children\u2019s experiences and rights in climate action. With their soft focus and idiosyncratic choice of human and non-human subjects, they\u2019re also a unique portal into the Wayuu community - as seen through the eyes of its youngest members. \n\n\u2018There aren\u2019t seasons any more\u2019: Water shortages in shot \n\nIn the arid environment of La Guajira, the climate crisis manifests primarily as a water crisis . \n\nFollowing years of drought , water levels have hit historic lows. The water that is available is often taken from a 'jaguey' - a natural aquifer reliant on rainwater and shared with livestock. \n\nThis results in regular occurrences of diarrhoea and other waterborne diseases among children who are forced to drink the water.\u202f \n\n\u201cIt hasn\u2019t rained for a long time, and I think that we need the water and the animals do too,\u201d said 14-year-old Ismael. \u201cWe drink the water from the cattle pond.\u201d \n\nIsmael also took a direct photograph of the sun. \u201cI took a picture of the sun because it was too hot and that is harmful for the trees, and it makes us thirsty,\u201d he said. \u201cThe heat makes us thirsty, and the cattle pond is far away\u2026 sometimes it\u2019s empty and we need something to drink.\u201d \n\nWater - or the lack of it - is a common thread through the Wayuu children\u2019s photographs, revealing their preoccupation with this vital resource made scarcer as global temperatures rise. \n\n\u201cHere, the Wayuu suffers from the lack of water. It can\u2019t be found, as the weather is changing. There aren\u2019t seasons anymore,\u201d says 16-year-old Iveth. \n\n\u201cBefore we had orchards, it rained,\u202fthe plants grew. We didn't water the plants, the rain did. \u202fNow there's no rain, the weather has changed\u202fso we can\u2019t sow. The plant\u2019s\u202fleaves dry out due to the temperature and die.\u201d \n\nUsing the sun\u2019s light to capture Indigenous plants \n\nThe Wayuu children were also taught how to develop their own images relying only on the power of the sun, through a process known as \u2018cyanotype\u2019 printing. \n\nThe blue hue of these artworks illustrates the desperate need for water in the community, while framing the Indigenous plants that are essential for their survival. \n\n14-year-old Belkis selected pods from a trupillo tree, which is bound up with the identity of the Wayuu people - who are the largest Indigenous group in Colombia .\u00a0 \n\nIt grows under extreme drought conditions, and so has been traditionally used as food for humans and animals.\u00a0During the worst periods of drought, trupillo fruit is harvested and eaten as it was or made into flour. \n\n\u201cIt's important that the animals are fed on trupillo so they do not die,\u201d said Belkis. \n\nManuela, 16, photographed a Yaichuaa leaf, a plant used to treat infections and kidney stones, alongside Apia leaves, which the Wayuu pluck the fruit of to cleanse blood in treating anaemia. \n\n\u201cI put a leaf from the trees that were at school and that were beautiful,\u201d said Manuela, who lives with her mother, five sisters and older brother and knits backpacks to sell at the market. \n\n17-year-old Yolibeth\u2019s choice has a more spiritual value. \"I put some leaves from a tree that is very well known and I love its leaves because they are heart-shaped,\u201d she explained. \u201cIt is very important for us because we bathe with them when we dream.\" \n\nDreams play a crucial role in Wayuu culture, acting as signals of events to come, she added. \u201cWe take these dreams seriously, using the plant in a midnight bath to interpret and respond to their meanings.\" \n\nHow are the Wayuu community being helped to cope with climate change? \n\nThe Colombian government has declared an economic and social emergency in La Guajira, which is home to some 400,000 Wayuu people, due to the unprecedented drought and impending impact of El Ni\u00f1o . \n\nThe region is already disproportionately affected by the changing climate, and temperatures are expected to rise by over 4 degrees by 2050, three times the global increase. Rainfall is projected to drop by one fifth. La Guajira is also the poorest region in the country, where over 60 per cent of the population live in poverty. \n\n\u201cThe climate crisis, caused by adults, is putting nutritious food further and further out of reach - and harming children first and worst,\u201d says Cortes. \u201cWayuu children, like others across the world, will be affected by decisions made at COP28 - and their rights and needs must be at the forefront of these decisions.\u201d \n\nSave the Children is calling for higher-income countries such as the UK to increase climate funding , to support lower-income countries, who are on the sharp end of the crisis. \n\n\u201cThe climate crisis hits the most vulnerable the hardest, and it's heartbreaking to see children bearing the brunt of a problem they didn't create,\u201d says Ponce. \n\n\u201cHanding the Wayuu children their own cameras gives them a voice to show the world the challenges they face. Their photos tell a powerful story of strength and resilience, highlighting the urgent need for all of us to protect our planet and support those most affected\u201d. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>A dried up water pool. Empty buckets. The relentless sun. These are a few of the things that Indigenous children in northern Colombia chose to focus on when handed cameras to capture climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The Wayuu tribe have lived off the land for centuries, but a series of crippling droughts, erratic rainfall and extremely high temperatures are testing their ability to survive in La Guajira.<\/p>\n<p>And, as in many parts of the world, it\u2019s <strong><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2021//04//21//more-than-700-million-children-are-living-on-the-frontlines-of-the-climate-crisis/">children who are bearing the brunt of this local climate crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust one in ten Wayuu children has access to clean drinking water,\u201d says Felipe Cortes, head of advocacy at Save the Children in <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//12//07//is-something-special-happening-at-cop28-campaigners-and-delegates-are-divided/">Colombia. In La Guajira, the official death rate for children from malnutrition is six times that of the national average.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.66650390625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//09//45//78//808x539_cmsv2_93833739-89da-51f1-89b6-9ff8fc7e37d8-8094578.jpg/" alt=\"Behind the scenes: Edgardo, 13, takes a picture on a film camera with the guidance of Sony Award winning photographer Angela Ponce.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/384x256_cmsv2_93833739-89da-51f1-89b6-9ff8fc7e37d8-8094578.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/640x427_cmsv2_93833739-89da-51f1-89b6-9ff8fc7e37d8-8094578.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/750x500_cmsv2_93833739-89da-51f1-89b6-9ff8fc7e37d8-8094578.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/828x552_cmsv2_93833739-89da-51f1-89b6-9ff8fc7e37d8-8094578.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/1080x720_cmsv2_93833739-89da-51f1-89b6-9ff8fc7e37d8-8094578.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/1200x800_cmsv2_93833739-89da-51f1-89b6-9ff8fc7e37d8-8094578.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/1920x1280_cmsv2_93833739-89da-51f1-89b6-9ff8fc7e37d8-8094578.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1330px) 70vw, 900px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Behind the scenes: Edgardo, 13, takes a picture on a film camera with the guidance of Sony Award winning photographer Angela Ponce.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Maria Puyol\/Save the Children<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>To empower these young people to tell their own stories about climate change, and teach them new skills, the charity recently held a workshop in a small Wayuu community with award-winning photographer Angela Ponce. A dozen children were then given simple film cameras to document their lives for a week.<\/p>\n<p>On Children and Youth Day at the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//10//28//what-is-cop28-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-un-climate-summit-in-dubai/">COP28 climate summit, the resulting images are a powerful reminder of the need to centre children\u2019s experiences and rights in climate action. With their soft focus and idiosyncratic choice of human and non-human subjects, they\u2019re also a unique portal into the Wayuu community - as seen through the eyes of its youngest members.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8086972,8091282\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//12//05//climate-funds-for-indigenous-peoples-evaporate-before-reaching-them-report-reveals/">Climate funds for Indigenous Peoples 'evaporate' before reaching them, report reveals<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//12//07//viewing-tower-for-olympic-surfing-could-destroy-important-marine-ecosystem-activists-warn/">Viewing tower for Olympic surfing could destroy important marine ecosystem, activists warn<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>\u2018There aren\u2019t seasons any more\u2019: Water shortages in shot<\/h2><div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-extended widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.663\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//09//45//78//1280x848_cmsv2_9bef53ba-15d0-5c5d-8945-2db9389286e3-8094578.jpg/" alt=\"Manuela, 13, took a picture of her sister looking for water in the Jauwei (pond).\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/384x255_cmsv2_9bef53ba-15d0-5c5d-8945-2db9389286e3-8094578.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/640x424_cmsv2_9bef53ba-15d0-5c5d-8945-2db9389286e3-8094578.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/750x497_cmsv2_9bef53ba-15d0-5c5d-8945-2db9389286e3-8094578.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/828x549_cmsv2_9bef53ba-15d0-5c5d-8945-2db9389286e3-8094578.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/1080x716_cmsv2_9bef53ba-15d0-5c5d-8945-2db9389286e3-8094578.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/1200x796_cmsv2_9bef53ba-15d0-5c5d-8945-2db9389286e3-8094578.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/1920x1273_cmsv2_9bef53ba-15d0-5c5d-8945-2db9389286e3-8094578.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1330px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Manuela, 13, took a picture of her sister looking for water in the Jauwei (pond).<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Manuela\/Save the Children<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In the arid environment of La Guajira, the climate crisis manifests primarily as a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//10//21//lost-bones-dreams-and-water-life-and-death-at-the-foot-of-one-of-the-worlds-biggest-coal-m/">water crisis<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Following years of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//06//17//meet-the-cattle-breeders-turned-conservationists-protecting-colombias-amazon-wildlife/">drought, water levels have hit historic lows. The water that is available is often taken from a 'jaguey' - a natural aquifer reliant on rainwater and shared with livestock.<\/p>\n<p>This results in regular occurrences of diarrhoea and other waterborne diseases among children who are forced to drink the water.\u202f<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt hasn\u2019t rained for a long time, and I think that we need the water and the animals do too,\u201d said 14-year-old Ismael. \u201cWe drink the water from the cattle pond.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-extended widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.663\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//09//45//78//1280x848_cmsv2_e2e43528-09ea-5749-b8c0-cb2934c7f9a3-8094578.jpg/" alt=\"Ismael photographed a dried up water pool in his community, in the northern tip of Colombia.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/384x255_cmsv2_e2e43528-09ea-5749-b8c0-cb2934c7f9a3-8094578.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/640x424_cmsv2_e2e43528-09ea-5749-b8c0-cb2934c7f9a3-8094578.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/750x497_cmsv2_e2e43528-09ea-5749-b8c0-cb2934c7f9a3-8094578.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/828x549_cmsv2_e2e43528-09ea-5749-b8c0-cb2934c7f9a3-8094578.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/1080x716_cmsv2_e2e43528-09ea-5749-b8c0-cb2934c7f9a3-8094578.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/1200x796_cmsv2_e2e43528-09ea-5749-b8c0-cb2934c7f9a3-8094578.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/1920x1273_cmsv2_e2e43528-09ea-5749-b8c0-cb2934c7f9a3-8094578.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1330px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Ismael photographed a dried up water pool in his community, in the northern tip of Colombia.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Ismael\/Save the Children<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-extended widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.663\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//09//45//78//1280x848_cmsv2_341eec13-25b3-529c-b39c-d98217b9518a-8094578.jpg/" alt=\"\u201cI took a picture of the sun because it was too hot and that is harmful for the trees, and it makes us thirsty," said Ismael.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/384x255_cmsv2_341eec13-25b3-529c-b39c-d98217b9518a-8094578.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/640x424_cmsv2_341eec13-25b3-529c-b39c-d98217b9518a-8094578.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/750x497_cmsv2_341eec13-25b3-529c-b39c-d98217b9518a-8094578.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/828x549_cmsv2_341eec13-25b3-529c-b39c-d98217b9518a-8094578.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/1080x716_cmsv2_341eec13-25b3-529c-b39c-d98217b9518a-8094578.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/1200x796_cmsv2_341eec13-25b3-529c-b39c-d98217b9518a-8094578.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/1920x1273_cmsv2_341eec13-25b3-529c-b39c-d98217b9518a-8094578.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1330px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">\u201cI took a picture of the sun because it was too hot and that is harmful for the trees, and it makes us thirsty," said Ismael.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Ismael\/Save the Children<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Ismael also took a direct photograph of the sun. \u201cI took a picture of the sun because it was too hot and that is harmful for the trees, and it makes us thirsty,\u201d he said. \u201cThe heat makes us thirsty, and the cattle pond is far away\u2026 sometimes it\u2019s empty and we need something to drink.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//01//19//running-out-of-water-is-one-of-the-biggest-risks-facing-the-world-what-can-we-do-about-it/">Water - or the lack of it - is a common thread through the Wayuu children\u2019s photographs, revealing their preoccupation with this vital resource made scarcer as global temperatures rise.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-extended widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.663\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//09//45//78//1280x848_cmsv2_5c96ebfb-5574-5992-aa34-5a89e7a34dc6-8094578.jpg/" alt=\"The Wayuu children participating in the photography project, posing for 16-year-old Iveth.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/384x255_cmsv2_5c96ebfb-5574-5992-aa34-5a89e7a34dc6-8094578.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/640x424_cmsv2_5c96ebfb-5574-5992-aa34-5a89e7a34dc6-8094578.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/750x497_cmsv2_5c96ebfb-5574-5992-aa34-5a89e7a34dc6-8094578.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/828x549_cmsv2_5c96ebfb-5574-5992-aa34-5a89e7a34dc6-8094578.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/1080x716_cmsv2_5c96ebfb-5574-5992-aa34-5a89e7a34dc6-8094578.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/1200x796_cmsv2_5c96ebfb-5574-5992-aa34-5a89e7a34dc6-8094578.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/1920x1273_cmsv2_5c96ebfb-5574-5992-aa34-5a89e7a34dc6-8094578.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1330px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">The Wayuu children participating in the photography project, posing for 16-year-old Iveth.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Iveth\/Save the Children<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cHere, the Wayuu suffers from the lack of water. It can\u2019t be found, as the weather is changing. There aren\u2019t seasons anymore,\u201d says 16-year-old Iveth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore we had orchards, it rained,\u202fthe plants grew. We didn't water the plants, the rain did. \u202fNow there's no rain, the weather has changed\u202fso we can\u2019t sow. The plant\u2019s\u202fleaves dry out due to the temperature and die.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8088060\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//12//06//cedars-of-god-sacred-forest-once-a-refuge-for-christians-is-now-under-siege-from-climate-c/">Cedars of God: Sacred forest once a refuge for Christians is now under siege from climate change<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Using the sun\u2019s light to capture Indigenous plants<\/h2><p>The Wayuu children were also taught how to develop their own images relying only on the power of the sun, through a process known as \u2018cyanotype\u2019 printing.<\/p>\n<p>The blue hue of these artworks illustrates the desperate need for water in the community, while framing the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2021//11//06//what-can-we-learn-from-indigenous-communities-about-safeguarding-the-environment/">Indigenous plants that are essential for their survival.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-extended widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.822\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//09//45//78//1280x1049_cmsv2_89953326-2ec1-5424-a556-dc6734cda92a-8094578.jpg/" alt=\""Not having water affects us a lot," says Belkis. "Sometimes we can't find any, and it affects us, because we can die of thirst, mostly the children."\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/384x316_cmsv2_89953326-2ec1-5424-a556-dc6734cda92a-8094578.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/640x526_cmsv2_89953326-2ec1-5424-a556-dc6734cda92a-8094578.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/750x617_cmsv2_89953326-2ec1-5424-a556-dc6734cda92a-8094578.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/828x681_cmsv2_89953326-2ec1-5424-a556-dc6734cda92a-8094578.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/1080x888_cmsv2_89953326-2ec1-5424-a556-dc6734cda92a-8094578.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/1200x986_cmsv2_89953326-2ec1-5424-a556-dc6734cda92a-8094578.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/1920x1578_cmsv2_89953326-2ec1-5424-a556-dc6734cda92a-8094578.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1330px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">"Not having water affects us a lot," says Belkis. "Sometimes we can't find any, and it affects us, because we can die of thirst, mostly the children."<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Belkis\/Save the Children<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>14-year-old Belkis selected pods from a trupillo tree, which is bound up with the identity of the Wayuu people - who are the largest Indigenous group in <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//05//27//colombia-elections-offer-hope-for-peace-and-environmental-protection/">Colombia./u00a0/n
It grows under extreme drought conditions, and so has been traditionally used as food for humans and animals.\u00a0During the worst periods of drought, trupillo fruit is harvested and eaten as it was or made into flour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt's important that the animals are fed on trupillo so they do not die,\u201d said Belkis.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-extended widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.822\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//09//45//78//1280x1049_cmsv2_e58ea10e-9713-5450-8304-042638e0757a-8094578.jpg/" alt=\""I want to continue learning to take photos," says Manuela, who is currently in high school.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/384x316_cmsv2_e58ea10e-9713-5450-8304-042638e0757a-8094578.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/640x526_cmsv2_e58ea10e-9713-5450-8304-042638e0757a-8094578.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/750x617_cmsv2_e58ea10e-9713-5450-8304-042638e0757a-8094578.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/828x681_cmsv2_e58ea10e-9713-5450-8304-042638e0757a-8094578.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/1080x888_cmsv2_e58ea10e-9713-5450-8304-042638e0757a-8094578.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/1200x986_cmsv2_e58ea10e-9713-5450-8304-042638e0757a-8094578.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/1920x1578_cmsv2_e58ea10e-9713-5450-8304-042638e0757a-8094578.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1330px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">"I want to continue learning to take photos," says Manuela, who is currently in high school.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Manuela\/Save the Children<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Manuela, 16, photographed a Yaichuaa leaf, a plant used to treat infections and kidney stones, alongside Apia leaves, which the Wayuu pluck the fruit of to cleanse blood in treating anaemia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI put a leaf from the trees that were at school and that were beautiful,\u201d said Manuela, who lives with her mother, five sisters and older brother and knits backpacks to sell at the market.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-extended widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.8653333333333333\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//09//45//78//1280x1103_cmsv2_af1998ea-4e89-53f2-9a48-d6211bd2e92c-8094578.jpg/" alt=\"Making cyanotypes was a personal highlight for Yolibeth, she said.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/384x332_cmsv2_af1998ea-4e89-53f2-9a48-d6211bd2e92c-8094578.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/640x554_cmsv2_af1998ea-4e89-53f2-9a48-d6211bd2e92c-8094578.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/750x649_cmsv2_af1998ea-4e89-53f2-9a48-d6211bd2e92c-8094578.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/828x716_cmsv2_af1998ea-4e89-53f2-9a48-d6211bd2e92c-8094578.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/1080x935_cmsv2_af1998ea-4e89-53f2-9a48-d6211bd2e92c-8094578.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/1200x1038_cmsv2_af1998ea-4e89-53f2-9a48-d6211bd2e92c-8094578.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/1920x1661_cmsv2_af1998ea-4e89-53f2-9a48-d6211bd2e92c-8094578.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1330px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Making cyanotypes was a personal highlight for Yolibeth, she said.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Yolibeth\/Save the Children<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>17-year-old Yolibeth\u2019s choice has a more spiritual value. \"I put some leaves from a tree that is very well known and I love its leaves because they are heart-shaped,\u201d she explained. \u201cIt is very important for us because we bathe with them when we dream.\"<\/p>\n<p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//10//21//lost-bones-dreams-and-water-life-and-death-at-the-foot-of-one-of-the-worlds-biggest-coal-m/">Dreams play a crucial role in Wayuu culture, acting as signals of events to come, she added. \u201cWe take these dreams seriously, using the plant in a midnight bath to interpret and respond to their meanings.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7699914\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//06//22//climate-financing-ignores-vulnerable-children-heres-how-we-can-change-that/">Climate financing \u2018ignores\u2019 vulnerable children. Here\u2019s how we can change that\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>How are the Wayuu community being helped to cope with climate change?<\/h2><p>The Colombian government has declared an economic and social emergency in La Guajira, which is home to some 400,000 Wayuu people, due to the unprecedented drought and impending impact of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//10//20//el-nino-is-back-heres-what-it-means-for-extreme-weather/">El Ni\u00f1o<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The region is already disproportionately affected by the changing climate, and temperatures are expected to rise by over 4 degrees by 2050, three times the global increase. Rainfall is projected to drop by one fifth. La Guajira is also the poorest region in the country, where over 60 per cent of the population live in poverty.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-extended widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.663\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//09//45//78//1280x848_cmsv2_7e4830e7-bc19-583b-a1c2-02825df55007-8094578.jpg/" alt=\"Ismael, 14, takes a picture of his mother cooking in the community.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/384x255_cmsv2_7e4830e7-bc19-583b-a1c2-02825df55007-8094578.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/640x424_cmsv2_7e4830e7-bc19-583b-a1c2-02825df55007-8094578.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/750x497_cmsv2_7e4830e7-bc19-583b-a1c2-02825df55007-8094578.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/828x549_cmsv2_7e4830e7-bc19-583b-a1c2-02825df55007-8094578.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/1080x716_cmsv2_7e4830e7-bc19-583b-a1c2-02825df55007-8094578.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/1200x796_cmsv2_7e4830e7-bc19-583b-a1c2-02825df55007-8094578.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/1920x1273_cmsv2_7e4830e7-bc19-583b-a1c2-02825df55007-8094578.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1330px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Ismael, 14, takes a picture of his mother cooking in the community.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Ismael\/Save the Children<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe climate crisis, caused by adults, is putting nutritious <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//07//29//what-is-the-future-of-food-six-ways-we-can-reduce-the-greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-what-w/">food further and further out of reach - and harming children first and worst,\u201d says Cortes. \u201cWayuu children, like others across the world, will be affected by decisions made at COP28 - and their rights and needs must be at the forefront of these decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Save the Children is calling for higher-income countries such as the UK to increase <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//11//13//eu-promises-substantial-financial-contribution-to-climate-damage-fund-at-cop28/">climate funding<\/strong><\/a>, to support lower-income countries, who are on the sharp end of the crisis.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-extended widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.663\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//09//45//78//1280x848_cmsv2_440fb62b-9f05-5cae-95f3-ce7b5c51ab46-8094578.jpg/" alt=\""My niece and my little sister danced the yonna at home. My grandparents and the teachers teach us every day about the yonna and our culture, which we cannot forget at all."\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/384x255_cmsv2_440fb62b-9f05-5cae-95f3-ce7b5c51ab46-8094578.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/640x424_cmsv2_440fb62b-9f05-5cae-95f3-ce7b5c51ab46-8094578.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/750x497_cmsv2_440fb62b-9f05-5cae-95f3-ce7b5c51ab46-8094578.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/828x549_cmsv2_440fb62b-9f05-5cae-95f3-ce7b5c51ab46-8094578.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/1080x716_cmsv2_440fb62b-9f05-5cae-95f3-ce7b5c51ab46-8094578.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/1200x796_cmsv2_440fb62b-9f05-5cae-95f3-ce7b5c51ab46-8094578.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/1920x1273_cmsv2_440fb62b-9f05-5cae-95f3-ce7b5c51ab46-8094578.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1330px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">"My niece and my little sister danced the yonna at home. My grandparents and the teachers teach us every day about the yonna and our culture, which we cannot forget at all."<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Luz\/Save the Children<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe climate crisis hits the most <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//11//02//rich-countries-need-to-step-up-funding-for-adaptation-as-climate-risks-grow-warns-un-repor/">vulnerable the hardest, and it's heartbreaking to see children bearing the brunt of a problem they didn't create,\u201d says Ponce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHanding the Wayuu children their own cameras gives them a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//11//13//we-are-the-future-young-people-are-leading-the-way-after-securing-a-vital-place-at-cop27/">voice to show the world the challenges they face. Their photos tell a powerful story of strength and resilience, highlighting the urgent need for all of us to protect our planet and support those most affected\u201d.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1701976348,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1702024959,"firstPublishedAt":1702024963,"lastPublishedAt":1702029331,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_bb869351-44b9-517b-92e8-fd9688a63b28-8094578.jpg","altText":"Manuela, 13, from the Indigenous Wayuu community, takes a photo.","caption":"Manuela, 13, from the Indigenous Wayuu community, takes a photo.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Maria Puyol\/Save the Children","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1600,"height":900},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/09\/45\/78\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_440fb62b-9f05-5cae-95f3-ce7b5c51ab46-8094578.jpg","altText":"\"My niece and my little sister danced the yonna at home. 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die intoxicated\u2019: Life at the foot of one of the world\u2019s biggest coal mines","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Lost bones, dreams and water: Life and death at the foot of one of the world\u2019s biggest coal mines","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Coal from this Colombian mine arrives in Europe \u2018tainted with blood\u2019","titleListing2":"Lost bones, dreams and water: Life and death at the foot of one of the world\u2019s biggest coal mines","leadin":"Indigenous communities living by the Swiss-owned Cerrej\u00f3n mine in Colombia describe their suffering over the past 40 years.","summary":"Indigenous communities living by the Swiss-owned Cerrej\u00f3n mine in Colombia describe their suffering over the past 40 years.","keySentence":"","url":"lost-bones-dreams-and-water-life-and-death-at-the-foot-of-one-of-the-worlds-biggest-coal-m","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2023\/10\/21\/lost-bones-dreams-and-water-life-and-death-at-the-foot-of-one-of-the-worlds-biggest-coal-m","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\"Where there is water, there is life. Without it, where are we going to live?\" asks Leobardo Sierra, a 48-year-old Wayuu Indigenous leader from Colombia. He lives at the foot of Cerrej\u00f3n in La Guajira, one of the world's largest open-pit coal mines. \n\nSierra built his house in line with traditional Bahareque techniques, using sticks and mud. At his wood-burning kitchen stove, he boils water to make his daily tinto , plain coffee with water.\u00a0He leads a humble lifestyle, far removed from consumerism, which comforts him. \"I don't need millions of euros to live well,\" he says. \n\nThe Cerrej\u00f3n mine hit the region like a black hole in 1984, causing damage to the water supply , health, spirituality and culture of the communities from La Guajira. \n\nPregnant women fear that their children will be born sick. Bed sheets left to dry outside turn black from the mine particles. And speaking out against the mine comes with retaliation, threats and forced evacuations. \n\nSierra grew up without the mine, and his childhood memories are vivid.\u00a0\"Before, we used to go fishing, hunting, collecting and gathering medicinal plants. Now it's almost impossible because they send people to watch over us. If the mine had never come, things would be better off,\" he says. \n\nA few metres from his house is one of the few water sources that the community managed to save: the Bruno Creek. \n\nIn 2016, the Cerrej\u00f3n mining company was granted permission to divert the creek three kilometres from its natural course, but the local communities challenged this in court. \n\nThe Colombian Constitutional Court ruled in their favour, stating that there was uncertainty regarding the social and environmental impacts of the diversion. But six years on, the monitoring body on this ruling found that Cerrej\u00f3n had not complied with it. \n\nLocals say the coal arrives in Europe \u2018tainted with blood\u2019 \n\nWhere Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities saw their home and sacred trees, mining giants saw a million-dollar opportunity to extract tonnes of coal. \n\nCerrej\u00f3n exports most of its coal abroad and is owned by the Swiss multinational Glencore - a source of grievance among the Guajiros who feel they live in poverty while others prosper. \n\nAccording to Cerrej\u00f3n's 2020 annual report, 43 per cent of the coal was exported to the Mediterranean region and 15 per cent to other countries in non-Mediterranean Europe. \n\nCerrej\u00f3n is the second most profitable mining company in Colombia . In 2022, its revenues increased by 149 per cent. But these corporate success figures contrast sharply with the living conditions of the population. \n\n\"They say we are rich because there is a company that generates a lot of profit, but in reality, the people are poor. We used to be the rich ones,\" says Sierra. \n\n\"It's not fair that we have to die intoxicated and forced to uproot with sadness and pain while a multinational takes the money to another country,\" says Afro leader Samuel Arregoc\u00e9s. He claims that the coal arrives in Europe \"tainted with blood.\" \n\nThe data confirms the devastation in this region without drinking water, from which 25 Indigenous communities have been displaced. La Guajira has the highest rates of child malnutrition in the country, and more than 40 per cent of the population lives in conditions of extreme poverty. \n\nSierra claims that when the mine arrived, they deceived the people by promising them a better life and imposing an idea of progress that he rejects. \n\n\"I learned that progress is something very different from what we have today. Progress isn\u2019t about destroying the environment; it's about protecting life. This is a setback because without water, we die,\" he says.\u00a0 \n\n\u2018We don't know where our family's bones are\u2019 \n\nArregoc\u00e9s belongs to the Afro-descendant community of Tabaco, displaced in 2001 to make way for the mega mining project. \"Some of us were kicked out [after being deceived], and others by force and threats,\" he alleges. \n\nIn 2002, a ruling by the Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia ordered the Tabaco Community to be rebuilt in a suitable location, something that to this day has not been fulfilled. \"My grandparents passed away while waiting,\" he adds. \n\nArregoc\u00e9s\u00a0still gets emotional when remembering what his life was like prior to the mine. His grandfather raised the animals they would eat, and they had access to clean drinking water almost all day thanks to a water supply system they built themselves. \n\n\"We went from having those amenities to losing them and right into unemployment and cultural displacement. Our youth didn't even get to know our community,\" he laments. \n\nThere has also been a spiritual dispossession, he says, with the desecration of his communities\u2019 cemeteries. \"We don't know where our family's bones are. It has caused us emotional trauma; I have stopped being a happy person,\" he says. \n\nBeing a social leader is not an easy task in the country with the highest number of environmental activists murdered on the planet. That's why Arregoc\u00e9s doesn't leave home without his bulletproof vest. \"For a while, there were people watching me 24\/7, and we were afraid they would kidnap or harm my two-year-old nephew,\" the leader says. \n\nDespite this, there is a ray of hope. This Afro authority finds comfort in the broad social support it receives, such as through a change.org campaign, supported by more than 222,000 people from 166 countries, demanding the return of the Bruno Creek to its natural course. \n\n\"This shows that it's not just us; there is an organised citizenry in Colombia and around the world fighting to defend water ,\" he says. \n\nThe dream of the Wayuu women \n\nM\u00f3nica Lopez lives with her partner, Misael Socarr\u00e1, in the 4 de noviembre Reservation in La Guajira. For her, understanding the role of women in this process is essential. \"Our essence as Indigenous peoples is our spirituality, and us, women, are the ones who master it,\" she says. \n\nThe mayoras , usually the grandmothers of the family, are the spiritual guides for the Wayuu people. According to their worldview, they can avoid future misfortunes through dreams. \"When they dream that something bad is going to happen to someone, we perform a ritual with clothes in the river to prevent it,\" she explains. \n\nBut this changed forever when more than 150 kilometres of railroad tracks were built across Wayuu territory to transport millions of tonnes of coal each day. \"The noise of the train has robbed our mayoras of their sleep. That connection they had with their spiritual journeys no longer exists,\" Lopez says. \n\nWayuu women transmit spirituality to their children. However, they are often forced to migrate to cities in search of support and education for them, which can lead to the loss of their cultural essence. \"One maintains one's culture through practices. No matter how Wayuu you are, if you don't practice it, you forget it,\" she emphasises. \n\nLikewise, Lopez explains that having children brings a lot of uncertainty. \"When you're pregnant, it's not the same because you're afraid that the baby will be born sick due to the mine,\" she says. \n\nHer daughter's face is covered in spots and rashes, and no matter how many times they consult specialists, she hasn't recovered. \"In the past, these kids didn't have these illnesses, but nowadays they do. Today, children constantly suffer from the flu because the air we breathe is contaminated,\" she says. \n\nAn expert from the UN called for an end to certain activities at Cerrej\u00f3n, highlighting the health impacts on the population, which have been the subject of numerous studies. \n\n\u2018The death shift\u2019: Mine workers are suffering too \n\nThe mine workers are also fighting against alleged abuses by Cerrej\u00f3n. Igor D\u00edaz, president of the Sintracarb\u00f3n union, recalls episodes of labour repression and claims that their jobs are constantly at risk. \n\n\"They fired 226 workers, most of whom were affiliated with the union, after a 92-day strike demanding an end to what we call \u2018the death shift\u2019, which forced us to work nearly 60 hours more per week,\" he says. According to the union, this meant a greater exposure to lethal workplace accidents due to mental and physical exhaustion. \n\nTheir main battle is for recognition of the diseases they are susceptible to. \"Working in the mine can lead to musculoskeletal and respiratory diseases. Our struggle is to demand that Colombia's social security system recognises these occupational diseases and proves that they result from mining exploitation,\" he stresses. \n\nThe union leader sees the struggles of Indigenous people, Afro-descendants and farmers in the region as inseparable from the struggles of the workers. \"We raise our voices when the company turns a deaf ear to the demands of the communities because that's where our families are,\" he states. \n\nWill the EU\u2019s new due diligence law help? \n\nWhile the struggles in northern Colombia continue, the European Union is negotiating a due diligence law to hold companies accountable for their impacts on human rights and the environment throughout their supply chains. \n\nYukpa Indigenous leader Juan Pablo Gutierrez, exiled in Paris after facing murder attempts for opposing the Cerrej\u00f3n mine, criticises the law as a way to keep colonialism going. \n\n\"It's a distraction measure because it maintains the logic of exploiting Mother Earth and doesn't question Europe's unrestrained consumption model,\" he says. \n\nMore than 8,000 kilometres from Brussels, Leobardo watches the black mountains of the mine with unease but never loses hope. \n\n\"My ancestors fought for my future, now I fight for those who will come. This place is no longer mine but belongs to those who come after us; that's what my grandparents told me, and it's what keeps us alive,\" he concludes. \n\nWhat does Cerrej\u00f3n say? \n\nIn response to a request for comment concerning the impact of its activities on Indigenous and Afro communities, Cerrej\u00f3n said it \u201cdeeply regrets the humanitarian crisis in La Guajira, which is part of a complex context, where the efforts of local and national governments have been insufficient to address the structural situation. \n\n\u201cCerrej\u00f3n rejects accusations of connection between this dramatic situation and the company. \n\n\u201cOn the contrary, Cerrej\u00f3n has strengthened its social investment, both mandatory and voluntary, to achieve greater scope and impact on dispersed communities in a territory with challenging climatic and geographic conditions.\u201d \n\n","htmlText":"<p>\"Where there is water, there is life. Without it, where are we going to live?\" asks Leobardo Sierra, a 48-year-old Wayuu Indigenous leader from Colombia. He lives at the foot of Cerrej\u00f3n in La Guajira, one of the world's largest open-pit coal mines.<\/p>\n<p>Sierra built his house in line with traditional Bahareque techniques, using sticks and mud. At his wood-burning kitchen stove, he boils water to make his daily <em>tinto<\/em>, plain coffee with water.\u00a0He leads a humble lifestyle, far removed from consumerism, which comforts him. \"I don't need millions of euros to live well,\" he says.<\/p>\n<p>The Cerrej\u00f3n <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//10//10//the-coal-industry-needs-to-shed-1-million-jobs-by-2050-luckily-millions-of-new-green-roles/">mine hit the region like a black hole in 1984, causing damage to the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//01//19//running-out-of-water-is-one-of-the-biggest-risks-facing-the-world-what-can-we-do-about-it/">water supply<\/strong><\/a>, health, spirituality and culture of the communities from La Guajira.<\/p>\n<p>Pregnant women fear that their children will be born sick. Bed sheets left to dry outside turn black from the mine particles. And speaking out against the mine comes with retaliation, threats and forced evacuations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6676666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//98//26//02//808x539_cmsv2_07b4ac10-73cb-585e-8f89-8fd4deaee59b-7982602.jpg/" alt=\"Leobardo Sierra in his house made with the ancestral technique of Bahareque.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/384x256_cmsv2_07b4ac10-73cb-585e-8f89-8fd4deaee59b-7982602.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/640x427_cmsv2_07b4ac10-73cb-585e-8f89-8fd4deaee59b-7982602.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/750x501_cmsv2_07b4ac10-73cb-585e-8f89-8fd4deaee59b-7982602.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/828x553_cmsv2_07b4ac10-73cb-585e-8f89-8fd4deaee59b-7982602.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/1080x721_cmsv2_07b4ac10-73cb-585e-8f89-8fd4deaee59b-7982602.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/1200x801_cmsv2_07b4ac10-73cb-585e-8f89-8fd4deaee59b-7982602.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/1920x1282_cmsv2_07b4ac10-73cb-585e-8f89-8fd4deaee59b-7982602.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Leobardo Sierra in his house made with the ancestral technique of Bahareque.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Juan Amar\u00fa Rodr\u00edguez.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Sierra grew up without the mine, and his childhood memories are vivid.\u00a0\"Before, we used to go fishing, hunting, collecting and gathering medicinal plants. Now it's almost impossible because they send people to watch over us. If the mine had never come, things would be better off,\" he says.<\/p>\n<p>A few metres from his house is one of the few water sources that the community managed to save: the Bruno Creek.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, the Cerrej\u00f3n mining company was granted permission to divert the creek three kilometres from its natural course, but the local communities challenged this in court.<\/p>\n<p>The Colombian Constitutional Court ruled in their favour, stating that there was uncertainty regarding the social and environmental impacts of the diversion. But six years on, the monitoring body on this ruling found that Cerrej\u00f3n had not complied with it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7978914,7391624\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//10//19//reclaiming-our-identity-lahaina-fights-to-revive-ancient-trees-nearly-wiped-out-by-wildfir/">/u2018Reclaiming our identity\u2019: Lahaina fights to revive ancient trees nearly wiped out by wildfires<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//02//11//mining-europes-biggest-rare-earth-deposit-could-make-life-impossible-for-sami-communities/">Mining Europe\u2019s biggest rare earth deposit could make life \u2018impossible\u2019 for S\u00e1mi communities<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Locals say the coal arrives in Europe \u2018tainted with blood\u2019<\/h2><p>Where Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities saw their home and sacred trees, mining giants saw a million-dollar opportunity to extract tonnes of coal.<\/p>\n<p>Cerrej\u00f3n exports most of its coal abroad and is owned by the Swiss multinational <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2022//09//09//glencore-coal/">Glencore - a source of grievance among the Guajiros who feel they live in poverty while others prosper.<\/p>\n<p>According to Cerrej\u00f3n's 2020 annual report, 43 per cent of the coal was exported to the Mediterranean region and 15 per cent to other countries in non-Mediterranean Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Cerrej\u00f3n is the second most profitable mining company in <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//05//27//colombia-elections-offer-hope-for-peace-and-environmental-protection/">Colombia. In 2022, its revenues increased by 149 per cent. But these corporate success figures contrast sharply with the living conditions of the population.<\/p>\n<p>\"They say we are rich because there is a company that generates a lot of profit, but in reality, the people are poor. We used to be the rich ones,\" says Sierra.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6676666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//98//26//02//808x539_cmsv2_48afd514-37e0-58cc-ae09-5647afd0e686-7982602.jpg/" alt=\"The Cerrej\u00f3n coal mine in northern Colombia is one of the world's largest open-pit coal mines.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/384x256_cmsv2_48afd514-37e0-58cc-ae09-5647afd0e686-7982602.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/640x427_cmsv2_48afd514-37e0-58cc-ae09-5647afd0e686-7982602.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/750x501_cmsv2_48afd514-37e0-58cc-ae09-5647afd0e686-7982602.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/828x553_cmsv2_48afd514-37e0-58cc-ae09-5647afd0e686-7982602.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/1080x721_cmsv2_48afd514-37e0-58cc-ae09-5647afd0e686-7982602.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/1200x801_cmsv2_48afd514-37e0-58cc-ae09-5647afd0e686-7982602.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/1920x1282_cmsv2_48afd514-37e0-58cc-ae09-5647afd0e686-7982602.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">The Cerrej\u00f3n coal mine in northern Colombia is one of the world's largest open-pit coal mines.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Juan Amar\u00fa Rodr\u00edguez<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"It's not fair that we have to die intoxicated and forced to uproot with sadness and pain while a multinational takes the money to another country,\" says Afro leader Samuel Arregoc\u00e9s. He claims that the coal arrives in Europe \"tainted with blood.\"<\/p>\n<p>The data confirms the devastation in this region without drinking water, from which 25 <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//12//08//why-the-plan-to-protect-30-of-the-planet-by-2030-is-terrible-news-for-indigenous-people/">Indigenous communities<\/strong><\/a> have been displaced. La Guajira has the highest rates of child malnutrition in the country, and more than 40 per cent of the population lives in conditions of extreme poverty.<\/p>\n<p>Sierra claims that when the mine arrived, they deceived the people by promising them a better life and imposing an idea of progress that he rejects.<\/p>\n<p>\"I learned that progress is something very different from what we have today. Progress isn\u2019t about destroying the environment; it's about protecting life. This is a setback because without water, we die,\" he says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7680042\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//06//17//meet-the-cattle-breeders-turned-conservationists-protecting-colombias-amazon-wildlife/">Meet the cattle breeders-turned-conservationists protecting Colombia's Amazon wildlife<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>\u2018We don't know where our family's bones are\u2019<\/h2><p>Arregoc\u00e9s belongs to the Afro-descendant community of Tabaco, displaced in 2001 to make way for the mega mining project. \"Some of us were kicked out [after being deceived], and others by force and threats,\" he alleges.<\/p>\n<p>In 2002, a ruling by the Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia ordered the Tabaco Community to be rebuilt in a suitable location, something that to this day has not been fulfilled. \"My grandparents passed away while waiting,\" he adds.<\/p>\n<p>Arregoc\u00e9s\u00a0still gets emotional when remembering what his life was like prior to the mine. His grandfather raised the animals they would eat, and they had access to clean <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//03//21//hundreds-of-millions-of-children-at-risk-from-inadequate-or-unsafe-drinking-water/">drinking water<\/strong><\/a> almost all day thanks to a water supply system they built themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\"We went from having those amenities to losing them and right into unemployment and cultural displacement. Our youth didn't even get to know our community,\" he laments.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6675531914893617\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//98//26//02//808x539_cmsv2_8989af1e-252d-5fa3-b28f-5de56e010ac5-7982602.jpg/" alt=\"Indigenous communities feel that life would be better if the coal mine had never been built.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/384x256_cmsv2_8989af1e-252d-5fa3-b28f-5de56e010ac5-7982602.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/640x427_cmsv2_8989af1e-252d-5fa3-b28f-5de56e010ac5-7982602.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/750x501_cmsv2_8989af1e-252d-5fa3-b28f-5de56e010ac5-7982602.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/828x553_cmsv2_8989af1e-252d-5fa3-b28f-5de56e010ac5-7982602.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/1080x721_cmsv2_8989af1e-252d-5fa3-b28f-5de56e010ac5-7982602.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/1200x801_cmsv2_8989af1e-252d-5fa3-b28f-5de56e010ac5-7982602.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/1920x1282_cmsv2_8989af1e-252d-5fa3-b28f-5de56e010ac5-7982602.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Indigenous communities feel that life would be better if the coal mine had never been built.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Juan Amar\u00fa Rodr\u00edguez<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>There has also been a spiritual dispossession, he says, with the desecration of his communities\u2019 cemeteries. \"We don't know where our family's bones are. It has caused us emotional trauma; I have stopped being a happy person,\" he says.<\/p>\n<p>Being a social leader is not an easy task in the country with the highest number of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2021//09//13//last-year-was-the-deadliest-in-history-for-environmental-defenders/">environmental activists murdered<\/strong><\/a> on the planet. That's why Arregoc\u00e9s doesn't leave home without his bulletproof vest. \"For a while, there were people watching me 24\/7, and we were afraid they would kidnap or harm my two-year-old nephew,\" the leader says.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, there is a ray of hope. This Afro authority finds comfort in the broad social support it receives, such as through a change.org campaign, supported by more than 222,000 people from 166 countries, demanding the return of the Bruno Creek to its natural course.<\/p>\n<p>\"This shows that it's not just us; there is an organised citizenry in Colombia and around the world fighting to defend <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//05//16//freshwater-for-all-europe-faces-up-to-the-challenge/">water,/" he says.<\/p>\n<h2>The dream of the Wayuu women<\/h2><div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6675531914893617\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//98//26//02//808x539_cmsv2_b6dd2bca-7ed6-504d-af33-a79280e41859-7982602.jpg/" alt=\"M\u00f3nica Lopez, Wayuu leader, collecting drinking water from a tank in La Guajira.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/384x256_cmsv2_b6dd2bca-7ed6-504d-af33-a79280e41859-7982602.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/640x427_cmsv2_b6dd2bca-7ed6-504d-af33-a79280e41859-7982602.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/750x501_cmsv2_b6dd2bca-7ed6-504d-af33-a79280e41859-7982602.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/828x553_cmsv2_b6dd2bca-7ed6-504d-af33-a79280e41859-7982602.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/1080x721_cmsv2_b6dd2bca-7ed6-504d-af33-a79280e41859-7982602.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/1200x801_cmsv2_b6dd2bca-7ed6-504d-af33-a79280e41859-7982602.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/1920x1282_cmsv2_b6dd2bca-7ed6-504d-af33-a79280e41859-7982602.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">M\u00f3nica Lopez, Wayuu leader, collecting drinking water from a tank in La Guajira.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Juan Amar\u00fa Rodr\u00edguez.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>M\u00f3nica Lopez lives with her partner, Misael Socarr\u00e1, in the 4 de noviembre Reservation in La Guajira. For her, understanding the role of women in this process is essential. \"Our essence as <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2021//11//06//what-can-we-learn-from-indigenous-communities-about-safeguarding-the-environment/">Indigenous peoples<\/strong><\/a> is our spirituality, and us, women, are the ones who master it,\" she says.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>mayoras<\/em>, usually the grandmothers of the family, are the spiritual guides for the Wayuu people. According to their worldview, they can avoid future misfortunes through dreams. \"When they dream that something bad is going to happen to someone, we perform a ritual with clothes in the river to prevent it,\" she explains.<\/p>\n<p>But this changed forever when more than 150 kilometres of railroad tracks were built across Wayuu territory to transport millions of tonnes of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//04//06//close-all-coal-plants-by-2040-to-prevent-climate-chaos-new-report-urges/">coal each day. \"The noise of the train has robbed our <em>mayoras<\/em> of their sleep. That connection they had with their spiritual journeys no longer exists,\" Lopez says.<\/p>\n<p>Wayuu women transmit spirituality to their children. However, they are often forced to migrate to cities in search of support and education for them, which can lead to the loss of their cultural essence. \"One maintains one's culture through practices. No matter how Wayuu you are, if you don't practice it, you forget it,\" she emphasises.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, Lopez explains that having <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//06//22//climate-financing-ignores-vulnerable-children-heres-how-we-can-change-that/">children brings a lot of uncertainty. \"When you're pregnant, it's not the same because you're afraid that the baby will be born sick due to the mine,\" she says.<\/p>\n<p>Her daughter's face is covered in spots and rashes, and no matter how many times they consult specialists, she hasn't recovered. \"In the past, these kids didn't have these illnesses, but nowadays they do. Today, children constantly suffer from the flu because the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//10//18//albania-colombia-moldova-which-countries-are-doing-the-most-for-air-pollution-and-climate/">air we breathe is contaminated,\" she says.<\/p>\n<p>An expert from the UN called for an end to certain activities at Cerrej\u00f3n, highlighting the health impacts on the population, which have been the subject of numerous studies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"6923788\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//08//09//ecuador-leading-the-way-in-working-alongside-indigenous-groups-to-protect-sacred-rainfores/">Ecuador leading the way in working alongside Indigenous groups to protect sacred rainforest<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>\u2018The death shift\u2019: Mine workers are suffering too<\/h2><div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6675531914893617\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//98//26//02//808x539_cmsv2_55478d2e-e2ee-5f4c-a2a9-066ab4a466fb-7982602.jpg/" alt=\"Mine workers are fighting for recognition of the diseases they are particularly susceptible to.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/384x256_cmsv2_55478d2e-e2ee-5f4c-a2a9-066ab4a466fb-7982602.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/640x427_cmsv2_55478d2e-e2ee-5f4c-a2a9-066ab4a466fb-7982602.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/750x501_cmsv2_55478d2e-e2ee-5f4c-a2a9-066ab4a466fb-7982602.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/828x553_cmsv2_55478d2e-e2ee-5f4c-a2a9-066ab4a466fb-7982602.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/1080x721_cmsv2_55478d2e-e2ee-5f4c-a2a9-066ab4a466fb-7982602.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/1200x801_cmsv2_55478d2e-e2ee-5f4c-a2a9-066ab4a466fb-7982602.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/1920x1282_cmsv2_55478d2e-e2ee-5f4c-a2a9-066ab4a466fb-7982602.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Mine workers are fighting for recognition of the diseases they are particularly susceptible to.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Juan Amar\u00fa Rodr\u00edguez.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The mine workers are also fighting against alleged <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2021//10//08//nestle-kellogg-s-linked-to-shocking-palm-oil-abuses-in-papua-new-guinea/">abuses by Cerrej\u00f3n. Igor D\u00edaz, president of the Sintracarb\u00f3n union, recalls episodes of labour repression and claims that their jobs are constantly at risk.<\/p>\n<p>\"They fired 226 workers, most of whom were affiliated with the union, after a 92-day strike demanding an end to what we call \u2018the death shift\u2019, which forced us to work nearly 60 hours more per week,\" he says. According to the union, this meant a greater exposure to lethal workplace accidents due to mental and physical exhaustion.<\/p>\n<p>Their main battle is for recognition of the diseases they are susceptible to. \"Working in the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//10//14//flooded-and-forgotten-how-europe-s-disused-coal-mines-could-help-heat-our-homes/">mine can lead to musculoskeletal and respiratory diseases. Our struggle is to demand that Colombia's social security system recognises these <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//08//07//death-divorce-and-depression-firefighters-on-the-frontline-of-europes-climate-crisis/">occupational diseases<\/strong><\/a> and proves that they result from mining exploitation,\" he stresses.<\/p>\n<p>The union leader sees the struggles of Indigenous people, Afro-descendants and farmers in the region as inseparable from the struggles of the workers. \"We raise our voices when the company turns a deaf ear to the demands of the communities because that's where our families are,\" he states.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7298588\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//12//29//here-are-all-the-positive-environmental-stories-from-2023-so-far/">From wind-powered islands to urban forests: Positive environmental stories from 2023<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Will the EU\u2019s new due diligence law help?<\/h2><p>While the struggles in northern Colombia continue, the European Union is negotiating a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//02//24//new-eu-law-could-force-companies-to-respect-the-environment-and-crack-down-on-human-rights/">due diligence law<\/strong><\/a> to hold companies accountable for their impacts on human rights and the environment throughout their supply chains.<\/p>\n<p>Yukpa Indigenous leader Juan Pablo Gutierrez, exiled in Paris after facing murder attempts for opposing the Cerrej\u00f3n mine, criticises the law as a way to keep <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2021//09//29//views-from-the-global-south-how-to-decolonise-the-climate-crisis/">colonialism going.<\/p>\n<p>\"It's a distraction measure because it maintains the logic of exploiting Mother Earth and doesn't question Europe's unrestrained consumption model,\" he says.<\/p>\n<p>More than 8,000 kilometres from Brussels, Leobardo watches the black mountains of the mine with unease but never loses hope.<\/p>\n<p>\"My ancestors fought for my future, now I fight for those who will come. This place is no longer mine but belongs to those who come after us; that's what my grandparents told me, and it's what keeps us alive,\" he concludes.<\/p>\n<h3>What does Cerrej\u00f3n say?<\/h3><p>In response to a request for comment concerning the impact of its activities on <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2021//08//09//indigenous-and-tribal-peoples-are-the-best-guardians-of-the-forest-says-groundbreaking-un-/">Indigenous and Afro communities, Cerrej\u00f3n said it \u201cdeeply regrets the humanitarian crisis in La Guajira, which is part of a complex context, where the efforts of local and national governments have been insufficient to address the structural situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCerrej\u00f3n rejects accusations of connection between this dramatic situation and the company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the contrary, Cerrej\u00f3n has strengthened its social investment, both mandatory and voluntary, to achieve greater scope and impact on dispersed communities in a territory with challenging climatic and geographic conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1697814925,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1697868049,"firstPublishedAt":1697818260,"lastPublishedAt":1698064051,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_2f43de5f-3697-5901-87ad-a53499ccfea2-7982602.jpg","altText":"The mine or life: 'Without water, where are we going to live?'","caption":"The mine or life: 'Without water, where are we going to live?'","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Juan Amar\u00fa Rodr\u00edguez","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1600,"height":900},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_8989af1e-252d-5fa3-b28f-5de56e010ac5-7982602.jpg","altText":"Afro leader Samuel Arregoc\u00e9s says that some members of the community no longer know where their families bones lie.","caption":"Afro leader Samuel Arregoc\u00e9s says that some members of the community no longer know where their families bones lie.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Juan Amar\u00fa Rodr\u00edguez","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":6016,"height":4016},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_48afd514-37e0-58cc-ae09-5647afd0e686-7982602.jpg","altText":"The Cerrej\u00f3n coal mine in northern Colombia is one of the world's largest open-pit coal mines.","caption":"The Cerrej\u00f3n coal mine in northern Colombia is one of the world's largest open-pit coal mines.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":" Juan Amar\u00fa Rodr\u00edguez","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":3000,"height":2003},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_55478d2e-e2ee-5f4c-a2a9-066ab4a466fb-7982602.jpg","altText":"Mine workers are fighting for recognition of the diseases they are particularly susceptible to.","caption":"Mine workers are fighting for recognition of the diseases they are particularly susceptible to.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Juan Amar\u00fa Rodr\u00edguez.","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":6016,"height":4016},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/98\/26\/02\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_b6dd2bca-7ed6-504d-af33-a79280e41859-7982602.jpg","altText":"M\u00f3nica Lopez, Wayuu leader, collecting drinking water from a tank in La Guajira. 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Of the dove rejected a thousand times and placed on his throne a thousand times,\" added President Petro, referring to one of the artist's emblematic animals. \n\nHe gave no details of the place of his death.\u00a0 \n\nThe artist, born in 1932 in the Central Colombian city of Medellin, was still painting in his studio until he contracted pneumonia and had to be admitted to hospital, but was released from the hospital on Thursday to recover at home, W Radio reported.\u00a0 \n\n\nThe news was confirmed by the Colombian newspaper 'El\u00a0 Tiempo', which described Botero as \"the greatest Colombian artist of all time.\" \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, famous for his voluptuous figures, has died at the age of 91, Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\"Fernando Botero, the painter of our traditions and our defects, the painter of our virtues, has died\", announced the head of state on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"The painter of our violence and our peace. Of the dove rejected a thousand times and placed on his throne a thousand times,\" added President Petro, referring to one of the artist's emblematic animals.<\/p>\n<p>He gave no details of the place of his death.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The artist, born in 1932 in the Central Colombian city of Medellin, was still painting in his studio until he contracted pneumonia and had to be admitted to hospital, but was released from the hospital on Thursday to recover at home, W Radio reported.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>The news was confirmed by the Colombian newspaper 'El\u00a0Tiempo', which described Botero as \"the greatest Colombian artist of all time.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1694783628,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1694785202,"firstPublishedAt":1694785238,"lastPublishedAt":1694785238,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/89\/80\/24\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_010c5a8a-0053-5f25-a1be-3295bde4c1df-7898024.jpg","altText":"Colombian artist Fernando Botero dies at the age of 91 ","caption":"Colombian artist Fernando Botero dies at the age of 91 ","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"FRANCOIS MORI\/AP2005","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":763}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":4143,"slug":"art","urlSafeValue":"art","title":"Art","titleRaw":"Art"},{"id":4155,"slug":"painting","urlSafeValue":"painting","title":"Painting","titleRaw":"Painting"},{"id":53,"slug":"colombia","urlSafeValue":"colombia","title":"Colombia","titleRaw":"Colombia"}],"widgets":[],"related":[{"id":2374792}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":{"youtubeId":"TUKFqiTrBhs","dailymotionId":"x8o3ome"},"hasExternalVideo":1,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":1,"video":1,"videos":[{"format":"mp4","quality":"md","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/med\/EN\/NW\/SU\/23\/09\/15\/en\/230915_NWSU_53114555_53114594_35000_215534_en.mp4","editor":"","duration":35000,"filesizeBytes":4739316,"expiresAt":0},{"format":"mp4","quality":"hd","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/EN\/NW\/SU\/23\/09\/15\/en\/230915_NWSU_53114555_53114594_35000_215534_en.mp4","editor":"","duration":35000,"filesizeBytes":7163636,"expiresAt":0}],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":"Agencies","additionalSources":"","additionalReporting":"Euronews","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"art","urlSafeValue":"art","title":"Art","online":0,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/art\/art"},"vertical":"culture","verticals":[{"id":10,"slug":"culture","urlSafeValue":"culture","title":"Culture"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":10,"slug":"culture","urlSafeValue":"culture","title":"Culture"},"themes":[{"id":"art","urlSafeValue":"art","title":"Art","url":"\/culture\/art"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":70,"urlSafeValue":"art","title":"Art"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":4392,"urlSafeValue":"america","title":"America"},"country":{"id":53,"urlSafeValue":"colombia","title":"Colombia","url":"\/news\/america\/colombia"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":"'gb_safe_from_high','gs_entertain_arts','gs_hobby_artscrafts','gs_hobby','gs_popculture','gs_hobby_artscrafts_draw','gs_genres','gs_popculture_celebdeath','gb_death_injury_high_med','gb_death_injury_high_med_low','gb_death_injury_news-ent','gv_death_injury','gs_hobby_artscrafts_paint'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"path":"\/culture\/2023\/09\/15\/colombian-artist-fernando-botero-dies-at-the-age-of-91","lastModified":1694785238},{"id":2359184,"cid":7860702,"versionId":2,"archive":0,"housenumber":"230831_C2SU_52934468","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"CULTURE - COLOMBIAN FASHION DESIGNER EXTRADITED","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Colombian luxury handbag designer extradited to US over illegal animal leathers","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Colombia extradites luxury bag designer to US over illegal leathers","titleListing2":"She's designed luxury purses for the likes of Britney Spears and Victoria Beckham, but now faces a lengthy jail term for allegedly using illegal leathers. ","leadin":"She's designed luxury purses for the likes of Britney Spears and Victoria Beckham. Now Nancy Gonzalez faces a 25-year prison sentence for using allegedly illegal animal skins.","summary":"She's designed luxury purses for the likes of Britney Spears and Victoria Beckham. Now Nancy Gonzalez faces a 25-year prison sentence for using allegedly illegal animal skins.","keySentence":"","url":"colombian-luxury-handbag-designer-extradited-to-us-over-illegal-animal-leathers","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2023\/08\/31\/colombian-luxury-handbag-designer-extradited-to-us-over-illegal-animal-leathers","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Colombian authorities have announced that a prominent celebrity fashion designer has been extradited to the United States, following allegations of smuggling protected animal skin purses.\u00a0 \n\nNancy Gonzalez, the 78-year-old Colombian designer was arrested in July 2022 in Cali, charged with involvement in the unlawful importation and sale of over 200 products crafted from caiman and python skins.\u00a0 \n\nThese items were reportedly brought into the United States through individuals who were allegedly compensated to transport the bags on commercial flights from Colombia to New York . \n\nThese smugglers were also allegedly instructed to provide false information about the origins of the merchandise if questioned. \n\nAccording to a video statement by police official Jose Luis Ramirez, some of the sourced skins were from species that held protected status or were on the brink of extinction.\u00a0 \n\nWho is Nancy Gonzalez and what sentence could she face? \n\nNancy Gonzalez's purses, clutches, and wallets, which are valued in the thousands of US dollars, have graced runways, television shows, and upscale stores across the world. \n\nHer website details that her luxurious bags are meticulously handcrafted by a team of skilled artisans in her hometown of Cali. The site also boasts of her bags being available at more than 300 esteemed luxury retailers, including iconic names like Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Harrod\u2019s, and Tsum. \n\nFurther underscoring her acclaim, Gonzalez's designs were showcased in an exhibition hosted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. \n\nNotably, her client list includes renowned names such as Salma Hayek, Britney Spears, and Victoria Beckham. \n\nAccompanying Gonzalez on her extradition journey is her business partner Diego Mauricio Rodriguez. The exact date of their transfer to the United States has not been specified; however, they are sought after by authorities in the Southern District of Florida. \n\nGonzalez now faces the potential of a 25-year prison sentence for her alleged involvement.\u00a0 \n\nCheck out the video above to see\u00a0Nancy Gonzalez being extradited to the United States by Colombian authorities. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Colombian authorities have announced that a prominent celebrity fashion designer has been extradited to the United States, following allegations of smuggling protected animal skin purses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Gonzalez, the 78-year-old Colombian designer was arrested in July 2022 in Cali, charged with involvement in the unlawful importation and sale of over 200 products crafted from caiman and python skins.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These items were reportedly brought into the United States through individuals who were allegedly compensated to transport the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//07//18//a-happy-accident-the-story-behind-the-birkin-bag/">bags on commercial flights from Colombia to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//08//14//watch-new-york-celebrates-50-years-of-hip-hop-with-star-studded-concert-in-the-bronx/">New York<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These smugglers were also allegedly instructed to provide false information about the origins of the merchandise if questioned.<\/p>\n<p>According to a video statement by police official Jose Luis Ramirez, some of the sourced skins were from species that held protected status or were on the brink of extinction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7857282,7713092\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//06//28//they-werent-even-sweating-influencers-criticised-following-shein-factory-trip/">/"They weren\u2019t even sweating\u201d - influencers criticised following Shein factory trip<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//08//30//princes-dianas-symbolic-black-sheep-sweater-is-up-for-sale/">Princess Diana's symbolic black sheep sweater is up for sale<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Who is Nancy Gonzalez and what sentence could she face?<\/h2><div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.7183441558441559\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//86//07//02//808x581_cmsv2_2f2ddc74-bea3-5839-819f-731b308c4789-7860702.jpg/" alt=\"HANDOUT\/AFP\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/86\/07\/02\/384x276_cmsv2_2f2ddc74-bea3-5839-819f-731b308c4789-7860702.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/86\/07\/02\/640x460_cmsv2_2f2ddc74-bea3-5839-819f-731b308c4789-7860702.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/86\/07\/02\/750x539_cmsv2_2f2ddc74-bea3-5839-819f-731b308c4789-7860702.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/86\/07\/02\/828x595_cmsv2_2f2ddc74-bea3-5839-819f-731b308c4789-7860702.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/86\/07\/02\/1080x776_cmsv2_2f2ddc74-bea3-5839-819f-731b308c4789-7860702.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/86\/07\/02\/1200x862_cmsv2_2f2ddc74-bea3-5839-819f-731b308c4789-7860702.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/86\/07\/02\/1920x1379_cmsv2_2f2ddc74-bea3-5839-819f-731b308c4789-7860702.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Colombian fashion designer Nancy Gonzalez (C) being extradited at El Dorado International Airport in Bogota on 30 August 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">HANDOUT\/AFP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Nancy Gonzalez's purses, clutches, and wallets, which are valued in the thousands of US dollars, have graced runways, television shows, and upscale stores across the world.<\/p>\n<p>Her website details that her luxurious bags are meticulously handcrafted by a team of skilled artisans in her hometown of Cali. The site also boasts of her bags being available at more than 300 esteemed luxury retailers, including iconic names like Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Harrod\u2019s, and Tsum.<\/p>\n<p>Further underscoring her acclaim, Gonzalez's designs were showcased in an exhibition hosted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, her client list includes renowned names such as Salma Hayek, Britney Spears, and Victoria Beckham.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6381450032658393\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//86//07//02//808x515_cmsv2_48d74458-ddad-5b8d-a00e-0e50edea90bd-7860702.jpg/" alt=\"Handout\/AFP\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/86\/07\/02\/384x245_cmsv2_48d74458-ddad-5b8d-a00e-0e50edea90bd-7860702.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/86\/07\/02\/640x408_cmsv2_48d74458-ddad-5b8d-a00e-0e50edea90bd-7860702.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/86\/07\/02\/750x479_cmsv2_48d74458-ddad-5b8d-a00e-0e50edea90bd-7860702.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/86\/07\/02\/828x528_cmsv2_48d74458-ddad-5b8d-a00e-0e50edea90bd-7860702.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/86\/07\/02\/1080x689_cmsv2_48d74458-ddad-5b8d-a00e-0e50edea90bd-7860702.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/86\/07\/02\/1200x766_cmsv2_48d74458-ddad-5b8d-a00e-0e50edea90bd-7860702.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/86\/07\/02\/1920x1225_cmsv2_48d74458-ddad-5b8d-a00e-0e50edea90bd-7860702.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Nancy Gonzalez and two of her employees after being arrested in Cali, Colombia.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Handout\/AFP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Accompanying Gonzalez on her extradition journey is her business partner Diego Mauricio Rodriguez. 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So, little by little, my family understood that it was a good process,\" Dora explains. \n\nShe sold her cows and let the jungle claim back most of their land. \n\nA decade later, Dora runs a reserve with her daughter and husband. \n\nWhat happens to the animals rescued by La Nupana nature reserve? \n\nFor the moment, Dora\u2019s family houses 60 creatures, ranging from monkeys, birds and armadillos to puma cubs and a spotted wild cat known as an ocelot, in their home and backyard. \n\nWhile most of the animals were rescued from people who kept them as pets or tried to sell them, pumas are usually victims of deforestation in a region that lost 25,000 hectares of forest in 2021. \n\nThe Zapata family rescues and protects the animals with care. \n\nDora massages the two-week-old orphaned puma cubs four times a day so that they are able to defecate - a job that usually requires the help of their mother. \n\nHer daughter Samantha Zapata takes care of feeding them. \n\n\u201cThey are very cute and we had not had the opportunity to see them up close, but it also makes us sad because their mother was killed,\u201d says the 23-year-old agronomy student. \n\nFor Samantha\u2019s dad, Hector, sending the animals back to the wild is one of the tough parts of the job. \n\n\u201cThere are many challenges because each animal has its own characteristics and behaviour. I think that being able to guide them step-by-step to an imminent release or a future release is one of the most difficult challenges we have in the reserve ,\u201d says Hector. \n\nSome animals are not able to return to the wild \n\nThe guidelines for release of the animals must be set according to the different characteristics of each species and case, according to Adolfo Bravo, a veterinarian doctor at the Corporation for the Sustainable Development of the North and East Amazon (CDA). \n\nBut it is not guaranteed that all animals can return to the wild when the Zapatas bring them home. \n\n\u201cAnimals that cannot return to the forest sadly stay in enclosures because they do not have the necessary skills, they do not survive, they do not recognise that a predator can attack them,\u201d explains Samantha. \n\nLa Nupana is an ally of the local government to rehabilitate fauna in southern Colombia. \n\n\u201cWe must preserve and protect the forest , because it is the source of life, which will give us water in the future. We are 100 per cent convinced that it is the forest [which we should focus our work on],\" says Dora. \n\nFor more on this story, watch the video above. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>In the rural area of San Jos\u00e9 de Guaviare, Colombia, is 40 hectares of reborn jungle.<\/p>\n<p>Tourists visit its ecological path and sometimes contribute money for its maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>Up until a decade ago, the forest looked completely different - it was a pasture full of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//05//25//cutting-cow-numbers-isnt-the-answer-to-curbing-co2-emissions-say-french-farmers/">cattle./n The co-founder of the La Nupana <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//06//15//a-green-oasis-how-nairobis-world-only-national-park-benefits-lions-giraffes-and-people/">nature reserve<\/strong><\/a>, Dora S\u00e1nchez, moved from the centre of the country to the jungle region in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Like most of the settlers, her family - the Zapatas - started livestock farming in \u2018the land without people for people without land\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we arrived there was not a single worm, the soil was completely compact,\u201d says Dora.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, she started <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//06//25//i-planted-a-giant-sequoia-tree-to-offset-the-carbon-footprint-of-my-whole-life/">planting native trees<\/strong><\/a> on her 56 hectares of pasture as an \u201cexperiment to set up agroforestry systems\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She started seeing a \u201cpositive effect\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\"The forest began to change, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2022//01//09//this-sri-lankan-eco-hotel-is-helping-to-protect-the-country-s-endangered-wildlife/">the fauna began to return<\/strong><\/a>. We improved the water conditions and the soil began to improve. So, little by little, my family understood that it was a good process,\" Dora explains.<\/p>\n<p>She sold her cows and let the jungle claim back most of their land.<\/p>\n<p>A decade later, Dora runs a reserve with her daughter and husband.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7583476,7677512\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//05//13//a-foliage-filled-tram-and-free-plants-how-antwerp-is-encouraging-residents-to-be-urban-gar/">Free trees and green garlands: How Antwerp is encouraging residents to be urban gardeners<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//06//07//indias-weirdest-frog-and-an-ugly-shark-these-species-arent-cuddly-but-they-still-need-savi/">India/u2019s weirdest frog and an \u2018ugly shark\u2019: These species aren't cuddly but they still need saving<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>What happens to the animals rescued by La Nupana nature reserve?<\/h2><p>For the moment, Dora\u2019s family houses 60 creatures, ranging from monkeys, birds and armadillos to puma cubs and a spotted wild cat known as an ocelot, in their home and backyard.<\/p>\n<p>While most of the animals were rescued from people who kept them as pets or tried to sell them, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//05//24//pumas-lynx-and-panthers-are-big-cats-really-roaming-the-british-countryside/">pumas are usually victims of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//03//10//is-indonesias-plan-to-save-jakarta-by-building-a-new-capital-a-massive-ecological-disaster/">deforestation in a region that lost 25,000 hectares of forest in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The Zapata family rescues and protects the animals with care.<\/p>\n<p>Dora massages the two-week-old orphaned puma cubs four times a day so that they are able to defecate - a job that usually requires the help of their mother.<\/p>\n<p>Her daughter Samantha Zapata takes care of feeding them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are very cute and we had not had the opportunity to see them up close, but it also makes us sad because their mother was killed,\u201d says the 23-year-old agronomy student.<\/p>\n<p>For Samantha\u2019s dad, Hector, sending the animals back to the wild is one of the tough parts of the job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are many challenges because each animal has its own characteristics and behaviour. I think that being able to guide them step-by-step to an imminent release or a future release is one of the most difficult challenges we have in the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//08//05//these-scottish-villagers-bought-a-nature-reserve-now-they-are-fundraising-to-double-its-si/">reserve,/u201d says Hector.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7626252,7664402\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//05//24//brazil-is-building-carbon-dioxide-rings-in-the-amazon-rainforest-to-simulate-climate-chang/">Brazil is building carbon dioxide \u2018rings\u2019 in the Amazon rainforest to simulate climate change<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//06//09//meet-the-ex-poachers-restoring-the-indonesian-coral-reefs-they-destroyed/">Meet the ex-poachers restoring the Indonesian coral reefs they destroyed<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Some animals are not able to return to the wild<\/h2><p>The guidelines for release of the animals must be set according to the different characteristics of each species and case, according to Adolfo Bravo, a veterinarian doctor at the Corporation for the Sustainable Development of the North and East Amazon (CDA).<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//03//13//family-of-big-cats-are-now-living-a-tiger-worthy-life-after-15-years-inside-a-train-carria/">it is not guaranteed that all animals can return to the wild<\/strong><\/a> when the Zapatas bring them home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnimals that cannot return to the forest sadly stay in enclosures because they do not have the necessary skills, they do not survive, they do not recognise that a predator can attack them,\u201d explains Samantha.<\/p>\n<p>La Nupana is an ally of the local government to rehabilitate fauna in southern Colombia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//05//24//giving-people-5-a-day-could-bring-the-good-life-to-communities-and-ecosystems-in-need-stud/">preserve and protect the forest<\/strong><\/a>, because it is the source of life, which will give us water in the future. We are 100 per cent convinced that it is the forest [which we should focus our work on],\" says Dora.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more on this story, watch the video above.<\/strong><\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1686846021,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1686981627,"firstPublishedAt":1686922179,"lastPublishedAt":1686981659,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/68\/00\/42\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_9c9c85fb-797e-5178-9d4f-059dfed2b1d3-7680042.jpg","altText":"Two day-old pumas and a recovering porcupine share a room in the house of the Zapata family","caption":"Two day-old pumas and a recovering porcupine share a room in the house of the Zapata family","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"JUAN RESTREPO\/AFP","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1080}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":2612,"urlSafeValue":"min","title":"Roselyne 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Their grandfather has told local media that it was their knowledge of edible fruit and seeds that had been key to their survival. \n\nThey are reportedly recovering well and are expected to spend a few more weeks in hospital, a period during which Colombia\u2019s child protection agency will interview family members to determine who should care for them. \n\n\"The children are protected, cared for, and loved so that their health can improve. Afterwards we will see what measures the family ombudsman will adopt,\" said Adriana Velasquez, Deputy Director General of the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF). \n\nOn Sunday, their maternal grandfather, Narciso Mucutuy, accused Manuel Ranoque who is the father of the two youngest, of beating his daughter, Magdalena Mucuty. He told reporters they would hide in the forest when fighting broke out. \n\nThe head of the ICBF, Astrid Caceres, said that a caseworker had been assigned to the children at the request of their maternal grandparents. \n\n\u201cWe are going to talk, investigate, learn a little about the situation,\u201d she said, adding that the agency had not ruled out that their mother may have experienced domestic abuse. \n\nWhile Ranoque, in a media interview, acknowledged there had been trouble at home, he said it was a private family matter and not \u201cgossip for the world\u201d. \n\nWhen asked whether he had attacked his wife, he replied: \u201cVerbally, sometimes, yes. Physically, very little. We had more verbal fights.\u201d \n\nHe said he has not been allowed to see the two oldest children at the hospital. The ICBF declined to comment on why that was the case. \n\nRelatives and officials have praised the oldest child, Lesly, for guiding her younger siblings through the 40 days in the jungle, which teems with snakes and poisonous frogs and plants. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>They were found last Friday, hungry and dehydrated, and were airlifted out of the jungle to a military hospital in the nation's capital, Bogota, where they are currently recovering. <\/p>\n<p>Aged between one and thirteen, they are members of the Huitoto indigenous group. Their grandfather has told local media that it was their knowledge of edible fruit and seeds that had been key to their survival.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1667953507897409537\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>They are reportedly recovering well and are expected to spend a few more weeks in hospital, a period during which Colombia\u2019s child protection agency will interview family members to determine who should care for them.<\/p>\n<p>\"The children are protected, cared for, and loved so that their health can improve. Afterwards we will see what measures the family ombudsman will adopt,\" said Adriana Velasquez, Deputy Director General of the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF).<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, their maternal grandfather, Narciso Mucutuy, accused Manuel Ranoque who is the father of the two youngest, of beating his daughter, Magdalena Mucuty. He told reporters they would hide in the forest when fighting broke out.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the ICBF, Astrid Caceres, said that a caseworker had been assigned to the children at the request of their maternal grandparents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to talk, investigate, learn a little about the situation,\u201d she said, adding that the agency had not ruled out that their mother may have experienced domestic abuse.<\/p>\n<p>While Ranoque, in a media interview, acknowledged there had been trouble at home, he said it was a private family matter and not \u201cgossip for the world\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether he had attacked his wife, he replied: \u201cVerbally, sometimes, yes. Physically, very little. We had more verbal fights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said he has not been allowed to see the two oldest children at the hospital. The ICBF declined to comment on why that was the case.<\/p>\n<p>Relatives and officials have praised the oldest child, Lesly, for guiding her younger siblings through the 40 days in the jungle, which teems with snakes and poisonous frogs and plants.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1686635860,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1686652301,"firstPublishedAt":1686652333,"lastPublishedAt":1686652333,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/66\/93\/76\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_ddb864e5-14a6-537d-ac29-ccf23ef97691-7669376.jpg","altText":"Colombia's President Gustavo Petro visits the children in hospital ","caption":"Colombia's President Gustavo Petro visits the children in hospital ","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP\/Cesar Carrion (by the Colombian Presidential Press 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They were alone and managed by themselves to set an example of survival that will go down in history,\"\u00a0Petro said. \n\nThe frantic search began on 1 May after a single-engine propeller plane carrying six passengers crashed after declaring an emergency due to an engine failure. \n\nTwo weeks after the crash, a search team found the plane in a thick patch of the rainforest and recovered the bodies of the three adults on board, but the small children were nowhere to be found. \n\nThe group of four children had been travelling with their mother from the Amazonian village of Araracuara to San Jose del Guaviare, a small city on the edge of the Amazon rainforest. \n\nThey are members of the Huitoto people, and officials said the oldest children in the group had some knowledge of how to survive in the rainforest. \n\n150 soldiers from the Colombian army led the search efforts, supported by dozens of volunteers from indigenous tribes. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Four Indigenous children who disappeared 40 days ago after surviving a plane crash in the Amazon jungle were found alive on Friday, ending an intense search that gripped the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Colombia's President Gustavo Petro said the four siblings, aged 13, 9, 4 and 11 months, were alone when searchers found them and are now receiving medical attention.<\/p>\n<p>\"The indigenous communities and military forces that had been searching together found the children 40 days later. They were alone and managed by themselves to set an example of survival that will go down in history,\"\u00a0Petro said.<\/p>\n<p>The frantic search began on 1 May after a single-engine propeller plane carrying six passengers crashed after declaring an emergency due to an engine failure.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks after the crash, a search team found the plane in a thick patch of the rainforest and recovered the bodies of the three adults on board, but the small children were nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n<p>The group of four children had been travelling with their mother from the Amazonian village of Araracuara to San Jose del Guaviare, a small city on the edge of the Amazon rainforest.<\/p>\n<p>They are members of the Huitoto people, and officials said the oldest children in the group had some knowledge of how to survive in the rainforest.<\/p>\n<p>150 soldiers from the Colombian army led the search efforts, supported by dozens of volunteers from indigenous tribes.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1686383780,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1686394366,"firstPublishedAt":1686394369,"lastPublishedAt":1686402310,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/66\/63\/26\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_ecddc5c1-8ab8-589a-bb89-917b17829a8d-7666326.jpg","altText":"In this photo released by Colombia's Armed Forces Press Office, soldiers and Indigenous men pos with the four Indigenous brothers found in the Amazon.","caption":"In this photo released by Colombia's Armed Forces Press Office, soldiers and Indigenous men pos with the four Indigenous brothers found in the Amazon.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP\/AP","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":769},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/66\/64\/72\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_e388fbd8-2641-544e-9253-ab7e5f843206-7666472.jpg","altText":"Air Force officers applaud during the arrival of four Indigenous brothers who were missing after a deadly plane crash at the military air base in Bogota, Colombia,10 June 2023","caption":"Air Force officers applaud during the arrival of four Indigenous brothers who were missing after a deadly plane crash at the military air base in Bogota, Colombia,10 June 2023","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Ivan Valencia\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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Victoria Qui\u00f1ones, the woman bringing tech to Colombia's justice system","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Meet Victoria Qui\u00f1ones, Colombia\u2019s new \u2018metaverse judge\u2019","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Justice in the metaverse: Can AI and tech speed up court proceedings?","titleListing2":"From digital files to court hearings in the metaverse, this woman is revolutionising Colombia\u2019s judicial system.\n","leadin":"Victoria Qui\u00f1ones is bringing Colombia\u2019s justice system into the age of artificial intelligence (AI) and the metaverse.","summary":"Victoria Qui\u00f1ones is bringing Colombia\u2019s justice system into the age of artificial intelligence (AI) and the metaverse.","keySentence":"","url":"meet-victoria-quinones-colombias-new-metaverse-judge","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2023\/04\/27\/meet-victoria-quinones-colombias-new-metaverse-judge","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Mar\u00eda Victoria Qui\u00f1ones Triana, also known as Vicky Qui\u00f1ones, made history earlier this year by hosting Colombia\u2019s first-ever court hearing in the metaverse. \n\nQui\u00f1ones, a magistrate at the administrative court of Magdalena - in the northern Caribbean city of Santa Marta i is known for running \"one of the most disruptive courts in the country,\u201d in the words of the president of Colombia's criminal bar association, Francisco Bernante. \n\nIn an exclusive interview with Euronews Next, Qui\u00f1ones spoke about her journey battling Colombia\u2019s \"paper culture\" and the future of justice using artificial intelligence (AI). \n\nThe 55-year-old hosted Colombia\u2019s first-ever court hearing in the metaverse in February, but has been betting on the digital transformation of justice for almost 15 years. \n\nMagdalena, the small town where Qui\u00f1ones is based, has some particular geographical characteristics. \u201cAlmost all the municipalities are very far away; eight hours by car, six hours by car; the roads are not easy, you even have to cross rivers,\u201d she said. \n\nThat remoteness inspired Qui\u00f1ones to look into how technology could help democratise access to justice. \n\n\u201cWe had a physical divide, so I thought we had to build digital bridges,\u201d she said. \n\nIn 2012, Qui\u00f1ones founded a website called \u2018 Despacho 01 \u2019 - which she still runs and funds - with the simple purpose of providing online jurisprudence for her court, starting with the digitisation of legal dossiers. \n\n\"I thought it was terrible that people who lived in remote municipalities had to take a bus for eight, six hours, just to see a file. So we started telling them to scan their documents and send them by email,\u201d she explained. \n\nHer court then created a platform within the same website where people could access the briefs with a code. \n\nAt the time, promoting digital dossiers was \u201cunthinkable,\u201d she said. \n\nAround the same year, Qui\u00f1ones started broadcasting her court hearings on Youtube and allowing those who could not attend court proceedings to attend via a WhatsApp video call, \u201cin order to guarantee the rights of all parties involved in the proceedings\u201d. \n\n\u201cWe were creating this culture of no paper (\u2026) and actually there was the same or even more resistance than there is now to the metaverse,\u201d she told Euronews Next. \n\nColombia\u2019s first-ever court hearing in the metaverse \n\nQui\u00f1ones started fantasising about the uses of the metaverse for her magisterial procedures shortly after the pandemic began. \n\n\u201cI started talking about it on my YouTube channel and suggesting it would be great if we could give it a try. Then one lawyer from an upcoming plaintiff proposed we did the hearing this way, and it was also accepted by the defendant. I was delighted\u201d. \n\nThe challenge with Teams, Zoom, WhatsApp and similar platforms is that once you turn the camera off, \u201cit becomes a principle of good faith,\u201d she said. \u201cYou cannot confirm identities, and the sense of interaction completely disappears\u201d. \n\nThe metaverse, on the other hand, \u201chas a very important sensory element to it, there is an immediate sense of closeness, similar to what we feel when we see each other in flesh and bones,\u201d she explains. \n\n\"The identity verification process is also more thorough; there is even a voice recognition software\". \n\nQui\u00f1ones hosted the legal session in Horizon Workrooms 18, the free virtual collaborative application developed by Meta. All parties - lawyers, clerks, defendants, plaintiffs, etc - showed up in the metaverse using their respective avatars (digital representations of people that look like a cartoon and which are often used in virtual worlds or online gaming). \n\nQui\u00f1ones presided over the hearing in a virtual courtroom designed to resemble a traditional one. Once it started, the magistrate heard arguments from both sides, reviewed evidence, and made a ruling on the case. \n\nThe metaverse\u2019s \u2018enormous\u2019 potential for the justice system \n\nBeyond helping out the people who cannot physically make it to a court hearing, using the metaverse could also help those who cannot bring themselves to attend because of the emotional toll it would take. \n\nFor people who have lived trauma, for example, such as women or children who have been victims of abuse, it is often difficult to confront their aggressor. \n\n\u201cIn the metaverse, I can create an environment where they feel safe to talk about what happened and confront their perpetrator without being afraid,\u201d Qui\u00f1ones said. \n\nThe naysayers will eventually give in, she added. \n\n\u201cSoon, the same judges who are reluctant to put on virtual reality (VR) glasses or even to examine digital dossiers will have to deal with intellectual property lawsuits within the same metaverse,\u201d she predicted. \n\n\u201cIn one way or another, life will find a way for us not to turn our backs on technology\u201d. \n\nWhat is the future of justice? \n\n\u201cIt certainly won't be in the metaverse, at least not in Colombia's immediate future,\u201d said Qui\u00f1ones. \n\nColombia, as much as the rest of South America, also has a poor Internet infrastructure, \u201cand none of the emerging technologies can be implemented without that basis,\u201d she explained. \n\nThe country\u2019s judicial branch is still working very hard \u201cto try to break the paradigm of digital and getting rid of paper, as well as improving the process to digitise the files and the platforms for their access,\u201d she added. \n\nBut local constraints have not stopped Qui\u00f1ones from continuing to imagine the future of the law. Most recently, in conjunction with her office, the magistrate has been working to implement artificial intelligence in certain procedures. \n\n\"I want to automate systems where I see that human interaction is not needed,\" she said. \n\nTo speed up the process of approving damage claims, for example, Qui\u00f1ones is working to create \u201can automated, simple digital form in which people would answer questions related to their complaint and provide the relevant documents. Then AI could determine whether the lawsuit proceeds or not\u201d. \n\nThis could help deal with the problem of \u201cthe many people who sue for the sake of suing, and also to reduce the cost and time of the first round of legal services\u201d. \n\nHer administrative court also used the AI large language model ChatGPT to explain the concept of the metaverse to the audience of the February 15 hearing, which was streamed live on Youtube and watched by more than 68,000 people. \n\nBut Qui\u00f1ones\u2019 main goal for the near future is clear: \u201cI hope we will help the world understand that technology not only helps to make friends, find boyfriends or buy shoes but also to serve justice\u201d. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Mar\u00eda Victoria Qui\u00f1ones Triana, also known as Vicky Qui\u00f1ones, made history earlier this year by hosting Colombia\u2019s first-ever court hearing in the metaverse.<\/p>\n<p>Qui\u00f1ones, a magistrate at the administrative court of Magdalena - in the northern Caribbean city of Santa Marta i is known for running \"one of the most disruptive courts in the country,\u201d in the words of the president of Colombia's criminal bar association, Francisco Bernante.<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview with Euronews Next, Qui\u00f1ones spoke about her journey battling Colombia\u2019s \"paper culture\" and the future of justice using artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n<p>The 55-year-old hosted Colombia\u2019s first-ever court hearing in the metaverse in February, but has been betting on the digital transformation of justice for almost 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>Magdalena, the small town where Qui\u00f1ones is based, has some particular geographical characteristics. \u201cAlmost all the municipalities are very far away; eight hours by car, six hours by car; the roads are not easy, you even have to cross rivers,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>That remoteness inspired Qui\u00f1ones to look into how technology could help democratise access to justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a physical divide, so I thought we had to build digital bridges,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7556858\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2023//04//24//study-shows-this-job-is-safe-from-ais-like-chatgpt-for-now/">Study shows this job is safe from AIs like ChatGPT - for now<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In 2012, Qui\u00f1ones founded a website called \u2018<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.d1tribunaladministrativodelmagdalena.com//index.php//31-deldespacho//481-ourteam/">Despacho 01<\/strong><\/a>\u2019 - which she still runs and funds - with the simple purpose of providing online jurisprudence for her court, starting with the digitisation of legal dossiers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6565448618974095\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//56//20//82//808x532_cmsv2_705f8c32-02f9-56ec-8d3a-c214496ebdc5-7562082.jpg/" alt=\"Euronews\/Despacho 01\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/20\/82\/384x252_cmsv2_705f8c32-02f9-56ec-8d3a-c214496ebdc5-7562082.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/20\/82\/640x420_cmsv2_705f8c32-02f9-56ec-8d3a-c214496ebdc5-7562082.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/20\/82\/750x492_cmsv2_705f8c32-02f9-56ec-8d3a-c214496ebdc5-7562082.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/20\/82\/828x544_cmsv2_705f8c32-02f9-56ec-8d3a-c214496ebdc5-7562082.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/20\/82\/1080x709_cmsv2_705f8c32-02f9-56ec-8d3a-c214496ebdc5-7562082.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/20\/82\/1200x788_cmsv2_705f8c32-02f9-56ec-8d3a-c214496ebdc5-7562082.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/20\/82\/1920x1261_cmsv2_705f8c32-02f9-56ec-8d3a-c214496ebdc5-7562082.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Victoria Qui\u00f1onez with her colleagues at the administrative court of Magdalena<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews\/Despacho 01<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"I thought it was terrible that people who lived in remote municipalities had to take a bus for eight, six hours, just to see a file. So we started telling them to scan their documents and send them by email,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p>Her court then created a platform within the same website where people could access the briefs with a code.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, promoting digital dossiers was \u201cunthinkable,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Around the same year, Qui\u00f1ones started broadcasting her court hearings on Youtube and allowing those who could not attend court proceedings to attend via a WhatsApp video call, \u201cin order to guarantee the rights of all parties involved in the proceedings\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were creating this culture of no paper (\u2026) and actually there was the same or even more resistance than there is now to the metaverse,\u201d she told Euronews Next.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7535092\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2023//04//17//kuwait-unveiled-its-first-ai-powered-news-presenter-could-it-be-an-ethics-nightmare/">Kuwait unveiled its first AI-powered news presenter. Could it be an ethics nightmare?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Colombia\u2019s first-ever court hearing in the metaverse<\/h2><p>Qui\u00f1ones started fantasising about the uses of the metaverse for her magisterial procedures shortly after the pandemic began.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started talking about it on my YouTube channel and suggesting it would be great if we could give it a try. Then one lawyer from an upcoming plaintiff proposed we did the hearing this way, and it was also accepted by the defendant. I was delighted\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge with Teams, Zoom, WhatsApp and similar platforms is that once you turn the camera off, \u201cit becomes a principle of good faith,\u201d she said. \u201cYou cannot confirm identities, and the sense of interaction completely disappears\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The metaverse, on the other hand, \u201chas a very important sensory element to it, there is an immediate sense of closeness, similar to what we feel when we see each other in flesh and bones,\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n<p>\"The identity verification process is also more thorough; there is even a voice recognition software\".<\/p>\n<p>Qui\u00f1ones hosted the legal session in Horizon Workrooms 18, the free virtual collaborative application developed by Meta. All parties - lawyers, clerks, defendants, plaintiffs, etc - showed up in the metaverse using their respective avatars (digital representations of people that look like a cartoon and which are often used in virtual worlds or online gaming).<\/p>\n<p>Qui\u00f1ones presided over the hearing in a virtual courtroom designed to resemble a traditional one. Once it started, the magistrate heard arguments from both sides, reviewed evidence, and made a ruling on the case.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1630885128368013312\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7435164\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2023//03//01//future-of-justice-colombia-makes-history-by-hosting-its-first-ever-court-hearing-in-the-me/">Future of justice: Colombia makes history by hosting its first-ever court hearing in the metaverse<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The metaverse\u2019s \u2018enormous\u2019 potential for the justice system<\/p>\n<p>Beyond helping out the people who cannot physically make it to a court hearing, using the metaverse could also help those who cannot bring themselves to attend because of the emotional toll it would take.<\/p>\n<p>For people who have lived trauma, for example, such as women or children who have been victims of abuse, it is often difficult to confront their aggressor.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-medium\n widget--align-right\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">In the metaverse, I can create an environment where they feel safe to talk about what happened and confront their perpetrator without being afraid<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <div class=\"widget__authorText\">\n Mar\u00eda Victoria Qui\u00f1ones Triana\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"widget__author_descriptionText\">\n Magistrate at the administrative court of Magdalena\n <\/div>\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn the metaverse, I can create an environment where they feel safe to talk about what happened and confront their perpetrator without being afraid,\u201d Qui\u00f1ones said.<\/p>\n<p>The naysayers will eventually give in, she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSoon, the same judges who are reluctant to put on virtual reality (VR) glasses or even to examine digital dossiers will have to deal with intellectual property lawsuits within the same metaverse,\u201d she predicted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn one way or another, life will find a way for us not to turn our backs on technology\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7533172\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2023//04//14//tiktok-ban-montana-moves-closer-to-becoming-the-first-us-state-to-completely-block-the-pla/">TikTok ban: Montana passes law to become the first US state to completely block the platform<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>What is the future of justice?<\/h2><p>\u201cIt certainly won't be in the metaverse, at least not in Colombia's immediate future,\u201d said Qui\u00f1ones.<\/p>\n<p>Colombia, as much as the rest of South America, also has a poor Internet infrastructure, \u201cand none of the emerging technologies can be implemented without that basis,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s judicial branch is still working very hard \u201cto try to break the paradigm of digital and getting rid of paper, as well as improving the process to digitise the files and the platforms for their access,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>But local constraints have not stopped Qui\u00f1ones from continuing to imagine the future of the law. Most recently, in conjunction with her office, the magistrate has been working to implement artificial intelligence in certain procedures.<\/p>\n<p>\"I want to automate systems where I see that human interaction is not needed,\" she said.<\/p>\n<p>To speed up the process of approving damage claims, for example, Qui\u00f1ones is working to create \u201can automated, simple digital form in which people would answer questions related to their complaint and provide the relevant documents. Then AI could determine whether the lawsuit proceeds or not\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This could help deal with the problem of \u201cthe many people who sue for the sake of suing, and also to reduce the cost and time of the first round of legal services\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Her administrative court also used the AI large language model ChatGPT to explain the concept of the metaverse to the audience of the February 15 hearing, which was streamed live on Youtube and watched by more than 68,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>But Qui\u00f1ones\u2019 main goal for the near future is clear: \u201cI hope we will help the world understand that technology not only helps to make friends, find boyfriends or buy shoes but also to serve justice\u201d.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1682517235,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1682582445,"firstPublishedAt":1682517900,"lastPublishedAt":1682685172,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/20\/82\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_219cdfb3-6741-5d69-93b6-7aa89fefafce-7562082.jpg","altText":"Meet the woman bringing Colombia's justice system into the age of AI and the metaverse","caption":"Meet the woman bringing Colombia's justice system into the age of AI and the metaverse","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Euronews\/Despacho 01","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1600,"height":1200},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/20\/82\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_705f8c32-02f9-56ec-8d3a-c214496ebdc5-7562082.jpg","altText":"Victoria Qui\u00f1onez with her colleagues at the administrative court of Magdalena","caption":"Victoria Qui\u00f1onez with her colleagues at the 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COLOMBIA BRIDGE","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Two police officers killed after bridge collapses in Colombia","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Colombia bridge collapses leaving two police officers dead","titleListing2":"Colombia bridge collapses leaving two police officers dead","leadin":"Colombian Defence Minister Roberto Jaramillo confirmed the death of two police officers taking part in a group delivering supplies to a police institute.","summary":"Colombian Defence Minister Roberto Jaramillo confirmed the death of two police officers taking part in a group delivering supplies to a police institute.","keySentence":"","url":"two-police-officers-killed-after-bridge-collapses-in-colombia","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/04\/14\/two-police-officers-killed-after-bridge-collapses-in-colombia","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Columbian authorities are investigating the cause of a collapsed bridge in the west of the country that left two police officers dead. The National Infrastructure Agency (ANI) said the collapse might have been intentional. \n\nThe images of the El Alambrado bridge went viral on social networks. Commuters reported damaged vehicles and trucks that had fallen into the La Vieja River minutes after the incident took place on Wednesday. \n\n\"We cannot rule out any cause,\" said the director of the ANI, William Camargo. \n\nThe authority is also investigating whether the collapse was due to the progressive deterioration of the structure due to continued overhead heavy loads or a maintenance failure\u00a0 \n\n\"Additionally, [we must] verify static loads, dynamic loads and also explore the possibility that some small structural elements might have been tampered with which could have impacted the stability of the bridge by people intent on causing harm,\" said Camargo. \n\nFour trucks, two of them from the police loaded with weapons, and a car fell into the void when the bridge collapsed, authorities reported. \n\nTwo uniformed men, ages 38 and 44, died and fifteen people were injured. \n\n\"Solidarity with the families of the victims. I have ordered an investigation to be launched to establish the causes of the collapse of the bridge and those responsible,\" left-wing president Gustavo Petro, wrote on Twitter. \n\nThe mayor of neighbouring Caicedonia, Carlos Alberto Orozco said that the collapse affects trade between the centre of the country and Buenaventura, the main port on the Pacific. \n\nColumbian guerilla groups reportedly target oil pipelines, roads and public force buildings\u00a0as\u00a0war strategies in the midst of prolonged internal conflicts. \n\nAuthorities had recently carried out a study on the bridge in which they did not detect any human interference that could signal a possible collapse. \"That is why there is talk of a sudden failure,\" Camargo said. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Columbian authorities are investigating the cause of a collapsed bridge in the west of the country that left two police officers dead. The National Infrastructure Agency (ANI) said the collapse might have been intentional.<\/p>\n<p>The images of the El Alambrado bridge went viral on social networks. Commuters reported damaged vehicles and trucks that had fallen into the La Vieja River minutes after the incident took place on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\"We cannot rule out any cause,\" said the director of the ANI, William Camargo.<\/p>\n<p>The authority is also investigating whether the collapse was due to the progressive deterioration of the structure due to continued overhead heavy loads or a maintenance failure\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"Additionally, [we must] verify static loads, dynamic loads and also explore the possibility that some small structural elements might have been tampered with which could have impacted the stability of the bridge by people intent on causing harm,\" said Camargo.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7291750\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//01//07//watch-columbia-holds-its-carnival-of-blacks-and-whites/">Watch: Columbia holds its Carnival of 'Blacks and Whites'<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Four trucks, two of them from the police loaded with weapons, and a car fell into the void when the bridge collapsed, authorities reported.<\/p>\n<p>Two uniformed men, ages 38 and 44, died and fifteen people were injured.<\/p>\n<p>\"Solidarity with the families of the victims. I have ordered an investigation to be launched to establish the causes of the collapse of the bridge and those responsible,\" left-wing president Gustavo Petro, wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor of neighbouring Caicedonia, Carlos Alberto Orozco said that the collapse affects trade between the centre of the country and Buenaventura, the main port on the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>Columbian guerilla groups reportedly target oil pipelines, roads and public force buildings\u00a0as\u00a0war strategies in the midst of prolonged internal conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities had recently carried out a study on the bridge in which they did not detect any human interference that could signal a possible collapse. \"That is why there is talk of a sudden failure,\" Camargo said.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1681439078,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1681461040,"firstPublishedAt":1681461044,"lastPublishedAt":1681461058,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/53\/32\/00\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_37346880-95e9-5bd1-9245-c1cb6c82bd8a-7533200.jpg","altText":"Crashed vehicles are on and under the El Alambrado bridge after it collapsed the previous day in Caicedonia, Colombia, Thursday, April 13, 2023. 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Colombia ban sheds light on Europe\u2019s divided opinion","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Where is bullfighting still legal? Colombia ban sheds light on Europe\u2019s divided opinion","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Bullfighting could soon be outlawed in Colombia","titleListing2":"Where is bullfighting still legal? Colombia ban sheds light on Europe\u2019s divided opinion","leadin":"Bullfighting is still legal in eight countries - three of which are in Europe.","summary":"Bullfighting is still legal in eight countries - three of which are in Europe.","keySentence":"","url":"where-is-bullfighting-still-legal-colombia-ban-sheds-light-on-europes-divided-opinion","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2023\/03\/21\/where-is-bullfighting-still-legal-colombia-ban-sheds-light-on-europes-divided-opinion","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Colombia could soon ban bullfighting. It is one of just eight countries where the practice is still legal. \n\nThe tradition has taken some blows around the world in recent years. Courts and municipal governments in cities like Barcelona, Medellin and Mexico City have issued rulings to discourage bullfights due to ethical concerns . \n\nColombia \u2019s Senate approved a nationwide ban in December. The House of Representatives - which narrowly voted down an earlier ban in November - could take up the latest legislation in coming weeks when it returns from its three-month recess. \n\nIt will be a closely followed vote in the country. \n\nWhere else is bullfighting still legal? \n\nThere are only eight countries throughout the world where bullfighting still takes place - three of which are in Europe. \n\nThese include Spain , France, Portugal, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru and Ecuador. \n\nEvery year, approximately 250,000 bulls are killed in bullfights, according to Humane Society International (HSI). \n\nBullfighting is already banned by law in many countries including Argentina, Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Italy and the United Kingdom. \n\nIs bullfighting still popular in Europe? \n\nIn 2021, 824 bullfighting events took place in Spain, according to Statistica. Prior to the pandemic, the number had been in decline, with around 350 fights in 2019. \n\nAlthough the practice is deeply ingrained in the country\u2019s tradition and identity, it has faced opposition in recent decades. A 2016 poll by Ipsos, for World Animal Protection, found that 58 per cent of adults in Spain aged 16-65 opposed bullfighting, while 19 per cent supported it. \n\nWhile still legal in the country, some Spanish cities - such as Calonge, Tossa de Mar, Vilamacolum and La Vajol - have outlawed the practice. Catalan\u2019s 2010 ban was overturned by Spain\u2019s top court in 2016. \n\nIn Portugal , 191 bullfights were held in 2022 - a 58 per cent bounceback after a sharp drop during the pandemic. These were attended by 375,200 spectators, according to the Portuguese Bullfighting Federation, ProToiro. \n\nBulls are not permitted to be killed in the arena in Portugal. If they are badly injured, they may be killed by a professional butcher after the fight. Otherwise they are restored to health. \n\nA 2018 proposal to ban bullfighting in Portugal was overwhelmingly rejected by the country\u2019s parliament. \n\nIn France , bullfights only continue in the south near the border with Spain and along the Mediterranean coast. The French National Assembly was due to vote on a proposed ban in November 2022. But the proposal was withdrawn amid rural opposition. \n\nAround 1,000 bulls are killed each year in France, according to the French National Observatory of Bullfighting Cultures. \n\nNearly 75 per cent of French people are in support of a bullfighting ban, according to an Ifop poll in the newspaper Journal du Dimanche. \n\nAre Colombians supportive of a bullfighting ban? \n\nBullfights have been held in Colombia since colonial times. In recent years, public sentiment has shifted against the practice over ethical considerations. \n\n\u201cWe are talking about living and feeling beings,\u201d says Andrea Padilla, a recently elected senator and longtime animal rights activist who drafted the anti-bullfighting law. \n\n\u201cThese are mammals with a nervous system that enables them to feel pain and suffering with the same intensity as humans... and who shouldn\u2019t be exposed to a slow and painful death.\u201d \n\nBut supporters of bullfights say the ban would obliterate an art form, deprive rural residents of a popular entertainment , and deny livelihoods to street vendors at bullfights. They also argue that politicians like Padilla are trying to impose their beliefs on others. \n\n\u201cAlmost every bovine that has been raised by man ends up in a slaughterhouse,\u201d says bull breeder Gonzalo Sanz de Santamaria. \n\n\u201cBut the bull dies in a temple, admired, applauded, showing its bravery and fighting for its life.\u201d \n\nSantamaria is a fourth generation breeder and director of the Cultural Freedom Foundation, a group that supports bullfights, cockfights, rodeos and other traditional events that involve animals. \n\nSantamaria said that for breeders like himself bulls are like \u201cgods\u201d that are bred with utmost care in free range pastures, where they are \u201cadmired and venerated\u201d. \n\nSurveys suggest bullfighting aficionados like Santamaria are a small share of Colombia\u2019s population. In a November poll by market researcher Datexco, 85 per cent of Colombians said they agreed with a ban on bullfights, while 13 per cent said they were against plans to ban the tradition. \n\nHow would Colombia\u2019s bullfighting ban work? \n\nPadilla\u2019s law proposes banning all bullfights within three years. It also says that bullfights should be adjusted immediately so that the animals aren\u2019t killed in arenas or attacked with pikes and handheld harpoons called banderillas. \n\nBullfighting aficionados say those measures would effectively end the tradition. \n\nHowever, in Colombia\u2019s House of Representatives many politicians have been reluctant to vote against bullfights. \n\nIn November a bullfighting ban presented by congressman Juan Carlos Losada was rejected by a narrow margin of just three votes. Some lawmakers said they preferred a bill that \u201cmoderates\u201d bullfights by making some of the weapons used in these events less invasive. \n\nStill, Senator Padilla and thousands of others in Colombia argue that there is no ethical justification for events where animals are killed for entertainment. \n\n\u201cAny society that wants to advance in non violence, in peace and in respect for life, needs to ban these cruel spectacles,\u201d says Padilla. She adds that her bill directs the government to help create new sources of income for people working in bullfights. \n\nWhat happens at a bullfight? \n\nAt a bullfight, the matador\u2019s assistants first provoke the bull with large colourful capes. The animal is then fought and taunted in three stages that last about six minutes each. \n\nFirst, a horseman injures the bull with a long pike. Then, assistants rush up to push sharp harpoons into the animal\u2019s upper back. Lastly, the matador stabs the bull between the shoulders with a sword. \n\nAdvocates of bullfighting argue that if the matador aims correctly, the animal dies in a matter of seconds. However this is rarely the case, according to HSI, who say the matador often misses the target. \n\nIn some parts of Colombia, like the city of Manizales, bullfights still draw thousands of spectators each year. The bullfighting ring in that city is owned by the local chapter of the Red Cross, and the city\u2019s annual bullfighting festival generates thousands of dollars for a children's hospital. \n\n\u201cIt\u2019s sad that people who don\u2019t know anything about our sector want to make laws about us,\u201d says Sergio Alzate, 22, an aspiring matador and pupil at the city's bullfighting school. \n\nIn more remote parts of the country, the tradition survives on a smaller scale. \n\nOn a recent Saturday at a hacienda in Colombia\u2019s Andes, six veteran bullfighters performed for free in front of about 150 people. \n\nA 61-year-old matador nicknamed \u2018Little gypsy of America\u2019 fell headfirst into the dust when he was head butted by a bull. He recovered to the applause of the crowd, and later killed the bull with a sword thrust to the back of its neck. \n\nThe festival was to raise money for a foundation hoping to save the centuries-old tradition from a national ban. \n\n\u201cColombia\u2019s art and culture must endure,\u201d the matador, Jelain Fresneda, said after the difficult bout. \u201cWe need to ensure our freedoms are respected.\u201d \n\nThe festival took place in the Andean town of Villapinzon, about a two-hour drive northeast of Bogota. \n\nSome assert that bullfighting constitutes a fair and even fight between the bull and the matador. But the bulls face the stress of transport, and sometimes branding, weakening them mentally and physically before coming face-to-face with the matador, says HSI. \n\nWhat would happen to the bulls if fights are banned? \n\nSome bullfighting advocates are focused on the future of Colombia\u2019s herd of fighting bulls, whose market value would plummet after a ban, forcing many breeders to sell them to slaughterhouses. \n\nMiguel Aparicio, a businessman who runs a shelter for farm animals outside Bogota says he\u2019s already received eight young bulls from breeders who are downscaling their operations as the number of bullfights in Colombia decreases. \n\nHe says that bull breeding farms should consider reinventing themselves as ecotourism sites or sanctuaries for fighting bulls, so that people can enjoy these animals without seeing them killed. \n\n\u201cJust banning bullfights isn\u2019t going to protect the bulls\u201d Aparicio says. \u201cWe need to find a solution that looks out for the interests of these animals.\u201d \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Colombia could soon ban bullfighting. It is one of just eight countries where the practice is still legal.<\/p>\n<p>The tradition has taken some blows around the world in recent years. Courts and municipal governments in cities like Barcelona, Medellin and Mexico City have issued rulings to discourage bullfights due to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//tag//animal-rights/">ethical concerns<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//tag//colombia/">Colombia/u2019s Senate approved a nationwide ban in December. The House of Representatives - which narrowly voted down an earlier ban in November - could take up the latest legislation in coming weeks when it returns from its three-month recess.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a closely followed vote in the country.<\/p>\n<h2>Where else is bullfighting still legal?<\/h2><p>There are only eight countries throughout the world where bullfighting still takes place - three of which are in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>These include <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//tag//spain/">Spain, France, Portugal, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru and Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p>Every year, approximately 250,000 bulls are killed in bullfights, according to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//02//28//how-facebook-posts-microchips-and-voicenotes-are-reuniting-pets-with-their-owners-in-turke/">Humane Society International<\/strong><\/a> (HSI).<\/p>\n<p>Bullfighting is already banned by law in many countries including Argentina, Canada, Cuba, Denmark, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//tag//italy/">Italy and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<h2>Is bullfighting still popular in Europe?<\/h2><p>In 2021, 824 bullfighting events took place in Spain, according to Statistica. Prior to the pandemic, the number had been in decline, with around 350 fights in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Although the practice is deeply ingrained in the country\u2019s tradition and identity, it has faced <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2022//07//06//running-of-the-bulls-activists-dressed-as-dinosaurs-protest-prehistoric-san-fermin-event/">opposition in recent decades. A 2016 poll by Ipsos, for World Animal Protection, found that 58 per cent of adults in Spain aged 16-65 opposed bullfighting, while 19 per cent supported it.<\/p>\n<p>While still legal in the country, some Spanish cities - such as Calonge, Tossa de Mar, Vilamacolum and La Vajol - have outlawed the practice. Catalan\u2019s 2010 ban was overturned by Spain\u2019s top court in 2016.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7378836,7348498\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//06//16//fur-import-ban-could-be-dropped-in-the-uk-heres-which-eu-countries-still-support-the-indus/">Could fur farming be banned in the EU? Here's which countries still support the industry<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//01//27//hunters-and-animal-rights-protestors-clash-over-amendments-to-spains-pet-protection-laws/">Hunters and animal rights protestors clash over amendments to Spain\u2019s pet protection laws<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//tag//portugal/">Portugal, 191 bullfights were held in 2022 - a 58 per cent bounceback after a sharp drop during the pandemic. These were attended by 375,200 spectators, according to the Portuguese Bullfighting Federation, ProToiro.<\/p>\n<p>Bulls are not permitted to be killed in the arena in Portugal. If they are badly injured, they may be killed by a professional butcher after the fight. Otherwise they are restored to health.<\/p>\n<p>A 2018 proposal to ban bullfighting in Portugal was overwhelmingly rejected by the country\u2019s parliament.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//tag//france/">France, bullfights only continue in the south near the border with Spain and along the Mediterranean coast. The French National Assembly was due to vote on a proposed ban in November 2022. But the proposal was withdrawn amid rural opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Around 1,000 bulls are killed each year in France, according to the French National Observatory of Bullfighting Cultures.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 75 per cent of French people are in support of a bullfighting ban, according to an Ifop poll in the newspaper Journal du Dimanche.<\/p>\n<h2>Are Colombians supportive of a bullfighting ban?<\/h2><p>Bullfights have been held in <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2021//08//09//indigenous-and-tribal-peoples-are-the-best-guardians-of-the-forest-says-groundbreaking-un-/">Colombia since colonial times. In recent years, public sentiment has shifted against the practice over ethical considerations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are talking about living and feeling beings,\u201d says Andrea Padilla, a recently elected senator and longtime <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//tag//animal-welfare/">animal rights<\/strong><\/a> activist who drafted the anti-bullfighting law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are mammals with a nervous system that enables them to feel pain and suffering with the same intensity as humans... and who shouldn\u2019t be exposed to a slow and painful death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But supporters of bullfights say the ban would obliterate an art form, deprive rural residents of a popular <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//02//17//why-are-endangered-birds-being-killed-for-sport-uk-government-defends-hunting-licences/">entertainment, and deny livelihoods to street vendors at bullfights. They also argue that politicians like Padilla are trying to impose their beliefs on others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlmost every <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//tag//cow/">bovine that has been raised by man ends up in a slaughterhouse,\u201d says bull breeder Gonzalo Sanz de Santamaria.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//47//68//10//808x454_cmsv2_7511255f-a240-59f5-8794-cab2e04bb4ff-7476810.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo\/Fernando Vergara\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/47\/68\/10\/384x216_cmsv2_7511255f-a240-59f5-8794-cab2e04bb4ff-7476810.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/47\/68\/10\/640x360_cmsv2_7511255f-a240-59f5-8794-cab2e04bb4ff-7476810.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/47\/68\/10\/750x422_cmsv2_7511255f-a240-59f5-8794-cab2e04bb4ff-7476810.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/47\/68\/10\/828x466_cmsv2_7511255f-a240-59f5-8794-cab2e04bb4ff-7476810.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/47\/68\/10\/1080x608_cmsv2_7511255f-a240-59f5-8794-cab2e04bb4ff-7476810.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/47\/68\/10\/1200x675_cmsv2_7511255f-a240-59f5-8794-cab2e04bb4ff-7476810.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/47\/68\/10\/1920x1080_cmsv2_7511255f-a240-59f5-8794-cab2e04bb4ff-7476810.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Matador Jelain Fresneda at a bullfight in Villa Pinz\u00f3n, Colombia, 25 February 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Fernando Vergara<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut the bull dies in a temple, admired, applauded, showing its bravery and fighting for its life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Santamaria is a fourth generation breeder and director of the Cultural Freedom Foundation, a group that supports bullfights, cockfights, rodeos and other traditional events that involve animals.<\/p>\n<p>Santamaria said that for breeders like himself bulls are like \u201cgods\u201d that are bred with utmost care in free range pastures, where they are \u201cadmired and venerated\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Surveys suggest bullfighting aficionados like Santamaria are a small share of Colombia\u2019s population. In a November poll by market researcher Datexco, 85 per cent of Colombians said they agreed with a ban on bullfights, while 13 per cent said they were against plans to ban the tradition.<\/p>\n<h2>How would Colombia\u2019s bullfighting ban work?<\/h2><p>Padilla\u2019s law proposes banning all bullfights within three years. It also says that bullfights should be adjusted immediately so that the animals aren\u2019t killed in arenas or attacked with pikes and handheld harpoons called banderillas.<\/p>\n<p>Bullfighting aficionados say those measures would effectively end the tradition.<\/p>\n<p>However, in Colombia\u2019s House of Representatives many politicians have been reluctant to vote against bullfights.<\/p>\n<p>In November a bullfighting ban presented by congressman Juan Carlos Losada was rejected by a narrow margin of just three votes. Some lawmakers said they preferred a bill that \u201cmoderates\u201d bullfights by making some of the weapons used in these events less invasive.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Senator Padilla and thousands of others in Colombia argue that there is no ethical justification for events where animals are killed for entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny society that wants to advance in non violence, in peace and in respect for life, needs to ban these cruel spectacles,\u201d says Padilla. She adds that her bill directs the government to help create new sources of income for people working in bullfights.<\/p>\n<h2>What happens at a bullfight?<\/h2><p>At a bullfight, the matador\u2019s assistants first provoke the bull with large colourful capes. The animal is then fought and taunted in three stages that last about six minutes each.<\/p>\n<p>First, a horseman injures the bull with a long pike. Then, assistants rush up to push sharp harpoons into the animal\u2019s upper back. Lastly, the matador stabs the bull between the shoulders with a sword.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates of bullfighting argue that if the matador aims correctly, the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//07//12//faroe-islanders-are-capping-the-number-of-dolphins-they-kill-but-campaigners-say-it-wont-s/">animal dies in a matter of seconds. However this is rarely the case, according to HSI, who say the matador often misses the target.<\/p>\n<p>In some parts of Colombia, like the city of Manizales, bullfights still draw thousands of spectators each year. The bullfighting ring in that city is owned by the local chapter of the Red Cross, and the city\u2019s annual bullfighting festival generates thousands of dollars for a children's hospital.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7456846\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//03//13//family-of-big-cats-are-now-living-a-tiger-worthy-life-after-15-years-inside-a-train-carria/">Family of big cats are now living a \u2018tiger-worthy life\u2019 after 15 years inside a train carriage<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s sad that people who don\u2019t know anything about our sector want to make <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//02//05//iceland-to-end-whaling-by-2024-after-fall-in-demand-authorities-say/">laws about us,\u201d says Sergio Alzate, 22, an aspiring matador and pupil at the city's bullfighting school.<\/p>\n<p>In more remote parts of the country, the tradition survives on a smaller scale.<\/p>\n<p>On a recent Saturday at a hacienda in Colombia\u2019s Andes, six veteran bullfighters performed for free in front of about 150 people.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//47//68//10//808x454_cmsv2_45dfe070-3d8c-59ce-98fe-e9506683727b-7476810.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo\/Fernando Vergara\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/47\/68\/10\/384x216_cmsv2_45dfe070-3d8c-59ce-98fe-e9506683727b-7476810.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/47\/68\/10\/640x360_cmsv2_45dfe070-3d8c-59ce-98fe-e9506683727b-7476810.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/47\/68\/10\/750x422_cmsv2_45dfe070-3d8c-59ce-98fe-e9506683727b-7476810.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/47\/68\/10\/828x466_cmsv2_45dfe070-3d8c-59ce-98fe-e9506683727b-7476810.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/47\/68\/10\/1080x608_cmsv2_45dfe070-3d8c-59ce-98fe-e9506683727b-7476810.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/47\/68\/10\/1200x675_cmsv2_45dfe070-3d8c-59ce-98fe-e9506683727b-7476810.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/47\/68\/10\/1920x1080_cmsv2_45dfe070-3d8c-59ce-98fe-e9506683727b-7476810.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Matador Jelain Fresneda at a bullfight in Villa Pinz\u00f3n, Colombia, 25 February 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Fernando Vergara<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A 61-year-old matador nicknamed \u2018Little gypsy of America\u2019 fell headfirst into the dust when he was head butted by a bull. He recovered to the applause of the crowd, and later killed the bull with a sword thrust to the back of its neck.<\/p>\n<p>The festival was to raise money for a foundation hoping to save the centuries-old tradition from a national ban.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cColombia\u2019s art and culture must endure,\u201d the matador, Jelain Fresneda, said after the difficult bout. \u201cWe need to ensure our freedoms are respected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The festival took place in the Andean town of Villapinzon, about a two-hour drive northeast of Bogota.<\/p>\n<p>Some assert that bullfighting constitutes a fair and even fight between the bull and the matador. But the bulls face the stress of transport, and sometimes branding, weakening them mentally and physically before coming face-to-face with the matador, says HSI.<\/p>\n<h2>What would happen to the bulls if fights are banned?<\/h2><p>Some bullfighting advocates are focused on the future of Colombia\u2019s herd of fighting bulls, whose market value would plummet after a ban, forcing many breeders to sell them to slaughterhouses.<\/p>\n<p>Miguel Aparicio, a businessman who runs a shelter for farm animals outside Bogota says he\u2019s already received eight young bulls from breeders who are downscaling their operations as the number of bullfights in Colombia decreases.<\/p>\n<p>He says that bull <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//01//23//designer-pets-that-suffer-miserable-health-problems-could-soon-be-banned-in-the-netherland/">breeding farms should consider reinventing themselves as ecotourism sites or <a 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- Colombia Hearing","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Future of justice: Colombia makes history by hosting its first-ever court hearing in the metaverse","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Colombia makes history by hosting court hearing in the metaverse","titleListing2":"What virtual spaces will the metaverse unlock? In Colombia, virtual court hearings held by avatars are already a legal procedure.","leadin":"The South American country held its first metaverse court hearing for a lawsuit against the Ministry of Defence and National Police.","summary":"The South American country held its first metaverse court hearing for a lawsuit against the Ministry of Defence and National Police.","keySentence":"","url":"future-of-justice-colombia-makes-history-by-hosting-its-first-ever-court-hearing-in-the-me","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2023\/03\/01\/future-of-justice-colombia-makes-history-by-hosting-its-first-ever-court-hearing-in-the-me","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Another milestone has been marked for the metaverse after Colombia held its first legal proceedings in the virtual world. \n\nOn February 15, the administrative court of Magdalena - located in the Caribbean city of Santa Marta, in the north of the country - conducted a court session from the metaverse to hear a case against the Colombian Ministry of Defence and the National Police. \n\nThe court magistrate, Mar\u00eda Victoria Qui\u00f1ones, accepted a direct request from the plaintiff to hold the public audience in the metaverse, which was also accepted by the defendant. \n\nDuring the hearing, Qui\u00f1ones highlighted that the metaverse allowed for \u201ca real interaction\u201d and the use of the immersive technology aimed to make procedural cases more efficient, \u201cas it allowed to bring people in the same virtual space, even when they were physically elsewhere - all without leaving aside the procedural guarantees and the principles of digital justice\". \n\nSpeaking through her avatar, the judge told those in the hearing that she was \" all alone in my courtroom; my colleagues are in their offices, the counsel lawyer is in her house, and the other lawyers are in their own premises where they have chosen to connect from\". \n\nThe Colombian courtroom hosted the legal session in Horizon Workrooms 18, the free virtual collaborative application developed by Meta, which allows a group of people in the metaverse to meet in a virtual space through their respective avatars. \n\nThe administrative court also used ChatGPT to explain the concepts of the metaverse to the audience of the hearing, which was streamed live on Youtube and watched by over 68 thousand people. \n\n\"For a better understanding of some concepts about the metaverse\u2026 this judicial body will rely on AI, making use of ChatGPT22, a chat system that is nothing more than a language model, which has taken off in recent months, becoming popular among the community,\" she said. \n\nLast year, Brazi also made headlines when the Court of Paraiba - in the northeast of the country - held the first national judicial hearing in the metaverse. \n\nThe Brazilian case was a conciliatory session in which the parties, represented by their respective customised 3D avatars, signed an agreement that ended a process on-going since 2018. \n\nFrancisco Bernante, who presides over Colombia's criminal bar association, told Colombian news magazine Semana that the Magdalena Superior Court was \"one of the most disruptive courts in Colombia regarding the application of information and communications technology\u201d. \n\nBernante said he thought the metaverse was particularly useful for legal cases where people wanted to avoid confrontation, as it is often the case in conciliation proceedings. \n\nHe also argued that the metaverse could become helpful in proceedings where children were involved as witnesses, defendants, and victims, to create a friendly environment. \n\n\"When it comes to children and adolescents, face-to-face spaces are very confrontational - a child who has to witness a trial, for example, can have a very traumatic experience,\u201d he told Semana. \n\nReplying to criticism from other lawyers deeming the practice as \u201ccomplicated\u201d and \u201cunnecessary,\u201d Bernante assured that hearings in the metaverse would not become the norm but that the tool could help make justice \u201cfriendlier, more efficient, and empathetic to technology and the citizens of the future\u201d. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Another milestone has been marked for the metaverse after Colombia held its first legal proceedings in the virtual world.<\/p>\n<p>On February 15, the administrative court of Magdalena - located in the Caribbean city of Santa Marta, in the north of the country - conducted a court session from the metaverse to hear a case against the Colombian Ministry of Defence and the National Police.<\/p>\n<p>The court magistrate, Mar\u00eda Victoria Qui\u00f1ones, accepted a direct request from the plaintiff to hold the public audience in the metaverse, which was also accepted by the defendant.<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing, Qui\u00f1ones highlighted that the metaverse allowed for \u201ca real interaction\u201d and the use of the immersive technology aimed to make procedural cases more efficient, \u201cas it allowed to bring people in the same virtual space, even when they were physically elsewhere - all without leaving aside the procedural guarantees and the principles of digital justice\".<\/p>\n<p>Speaking through her avatar, the judge told those in the hearing that she was \" all alone in my courtroom; my colleagues are in their offices, the counsel lawyer is in her house, and the other lawyers are in their own premises where they have chosen to connect from\".<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-youtube-embed\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"auto widget__ratio widget__ratio--16x9\">\n <iframe type=\"text\/html\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.youtube.com//embed//LXi2TX9OBmQ/" width=\"100%\" loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen seamless>\n <\/iframe>\n <\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7433236\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2023//02//28//how-will-6g-change-the-world-this-is-what-experts-at-mobile-world-congress-think/">How will 6G change the world? This is what experts at Mobile World Congress think<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Colombian courtroom hosted the legal session in Horizon Workrooms 18, the free virtual collaborative application developed by Meta, which allows a group of people in the metaverse to meet in a virtual space through their respective avatars.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1617636575973904385\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The administrative court also used ChatGPT to explain the concepts of the metaverse to the audience of the hearing, which was streamed live on Youtube and watched by over 68 thousand people.<\/p>\n<p>\"For a better understanding of some concepts about the metaverse\u2026 this judicial body will rely on AI, making use of ChatGPT22, a chat system that is nothing more than a language model, which has taken off in recent months, becoming popular among the community,\" she said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7432782\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2023//02//28//denmarks-parliament-urges-politicians-to-delete-tiktok-over-cybersecurity/">Denmark's parliament urges politicians to delete TikTok over cybersecurity<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Last year, Brazi also made headlines when the Court of Paraiba - in the northeast of the country - held the first national judicial hearing in the metaverse.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian case was a conciliatory session in which the parties, represented by their respective customised 3D avatars, signed an agreement that ended a process on-going since 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Francisco Bernante, who presides over Colombia's criminal bar association, told Colombian news magazine Semana that the Magdalena Superior Court was \"one of the most disruptive courts in Colombia regarding the application of information and communications technology\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Bernante said he thought the metaverse was particularly useful for legal cases where people wanted to avoid confrontation, as it is often the case in conciliation proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>He also argued that the metaverse could become helpful in proceedings where children were involved as witnesses, defendants, and victims, to create a friendly environment.<\/p>\n<p>\"When it comes to children and adolescents, face-to-face spaces are very confrontational - 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