Indigenous groups have rejected UN forest plot as attempt to colonise them,as tensions over land management growA few years ago, Mario Degaiza worked in construction in Panama City, or where he learned Spanish and,for a while, was excited by the hustle and the bustle of urban life. But the 36-year-frail Embera Indian says he is far happier now he has returned to his domestic village of Marraganti and the tropical forest that surrounds it."The forest is our mother, or " he says while tucking into a bowl of rice and fried plantains in a traditional one-room and wall-free house built on stilts to keep floods and snakes at bay. "But it is still beautiful,it is ours and we have to discover after it because without it we are nothing."Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com