Hundreds brave sub-zero temperatures to march in streets of Montreal, the host city of this year's UN biodiversity summit, demanding a strong new deal to protect nature worldwide
"Governments have had years to reach the agreement we need to save our planet's biodiversity from extinction," activists say.
Wearing costumes to look like birds, trees and caribou, activists said on Saturday the COP15 summit could fail to meet the urgency of the issue, with about 1 million plant, insect and other animal species now threatened with extinction. "Governments have had years to reach the agreement we need to save our planet's biodiversity from extinction," said Oscar Soria, Campaign Director at Avaaz, a global civic movement which helped to organize Saturday's march.
Arkilaus Kladit, a member of the Knasaimos-Tehit tribe, traveled to Montreal from West Papua, Indonesia.
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