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Amazon Indigenous leaders call for action on environmental crime
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Each of the two Wampis monitoring posts is staffed by 14 Indigenous guards.
Indigenous leaders from Amazon communities are taking concerns about illegal mining, drug trafficking and deforestation to a United Nations conference in Vienna. They want stronger action against criminal networks and a greater role for Indigenous peoples in protecting their territories and shaping a proposed agreement.
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The United Nations conference on transnational organized crime is scheduled for October 19-23.
“the Oct. 19-23 U.N. conference on transnational organized crime”
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Each of the two Wampis monitoring posts is staffed by 14 Indigenous guards.
“two monitoring posts, each staffed by 14 Indigenous guards”
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The Wampis Nation has established two monitoring posts to confront illegal mining.
“the Wampis have established two monitoring posts”