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Puyo Declaration International Workshop
Meeting
Following a wide debate on the issue, we hereby declare: 1.- The NULLITY of contracts, agreements and projects that contemplate the sale of environmental services 2.- We request CONAIE and CONVENIAE to endorse the official declaration of NULLITY of all the sales contracts for Environmental Services affecting the territories of Indigenous Peoples, Afro-Ecuadorian and peasant communities of Ecuador. 3.- We reject all the initiatives that involve the sale of Environmental Services in the territories of indigenous peoples, peasant and Afro-Ecuadorian communities. 4.- We reject the use of the so-called Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), considered in the Kyoto Protocol in projects affecting the communities, such as hydroelectric dams, monoculture tree plantations and others. 5.- We reject the signing of further contracts in our communities for the Sale of Environmental Services with national or international NGOs, municipalities or individuals. 6.- We engage ourselves to monitor and denounce further processes for the Sale of Environmental Services. 7.- We exhort CONAIE and CONFENIAE to submit the corresponding complaints to the courts, to have punitive measures taken against the notaries, contract promoters and NGOs that participate in these activities. 8.- We reject the concessions for mining, oil, hydroelectric dams, timber exploitation, shrimp farms, tree plantations, and African palm in the territory of the Indigenous Peoples, Afro-Ecuadorian and peasant communities. 9.- We demand respect for the rights and self-determination of the Indigenous Peoples, Afro-Ecuadorian and Peasant communities in any attempt at reverting these territories to the State. 10.- We categorically reject the presence in the territories of the Indigenous Peoples, peasant and Afro-Ecuadorian Communities of organizations such as GTZ, Conservation International, the Nature Conservancy, Ecolex, Ecociencia, Fundación Natura, Arco Iris, Antisana and others. 11.- We reject bio-prospecting and bio-piracy projects under the disguise of scientific research, in their attempt to take over our natural resources and their associated ancestral knowledge. 12.- We demand the incorporation in educational centres, provincial offices, universities and post-graduate courses of critical educational programmes in territorial and environmental rights. 13.- We express our solidarity with the indigenous, Afro-Ecuadorian and peasant organizations struggling for the defence of their territories, natural resources and ways of life. In particular, we support the struggles of: - The Tagaeri and Taromenani People
of the Waorani nation in their right to remain in voluntary isolation
and who are being massacred by logging and oil companies invading their
territories, while making the State responsible for the survival of
these People. Signatures: Julián Rosillo Iván Piaguaje Juan José Salinas Troya Segundo Tsakimp Hector Santi Clelia Aranda Mario Chango Eduardo Viteri Cléver Santi Oscar Alvarado Fausto Tapuy Daniel Shiguango Jerónimo Mashient Guillermina Vega Angel Tapia Lauton Sabando Julio Obando Rosales Linver Nazareno Paola Vásquez William Chila Alejandro Molina Lina Solano Juan Rivadeneira Pedro Tibipa Benigno Chacón Fernando Mejía Robinson Chiliquinga Oscar Montahuano Geoffrey Romero Ismelda Chila Carlos Vinueza Wellington Angulo Marcelo Cotera Ricardo Carrere Bernardino Camilo da Silva Alexis Rojas Juan Carlos Castro Nathalia Bonilla Ivonne Ramos Aurora Donoso Gloria Chicaiza Patricia Granda
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