According to this Spanish-language article, “despite the pandemic, deforestation persists in the Amazon and the risk of going through fires similar to those of 2019 and 2020 is also increasing.”
The indigenous leader and representative of the National Coordinator for the Defense of Indigenous Peasant and Protected Areas of Bolivia (Contiocap), Álex Villca noted that… during “2019 and 2020 (Bolivia)… lost around 10 million hectares of forests and grasslands that correspond to the Amazon basin. And more than 5 million lives that have been burned, not counting microorganisms,
“During the international conference "Right to protect the environment", Villca stressed that it is the indigenous peoples who directly feel the impacts of fires and deforestation in the Amazon for different activities, for which it is urgent "to achieve an articulation between the institutions and leaders in resistance ”.
”The indigenous leader Ruth Alipaz of Contiocap, also demanded respect and protection of the environment and indigenous peoples. "They were 15 years of struggle, of defending the rights of nature and facing the fact that while an armored image was being exported as a country defending Mother Earth and indigenous peoples, their rights were violated at the national level," the activist said.