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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Steven Grattan

Criminal networks threaten the Amazon. Indigenous leaders want the UN to act

Environment Indigenous Crime Prevention - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Indigenous leaders from across the Amazon are taking their fight against illegal mining, drug trafficking and deforestation to a United Nations conference in Vienna starting Monday.

More than a dozen Indigenous representatives from Peru, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador are participating in the Oct. 19-23 U.N. conference on transnational organized crime, known as COP13.

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