A Brazilian Indigenous leader is appealing to France’s president to use his sway to fight deforestation of the Amazon.
Ninawa, a leader of the Huni Kui people who uses just one name, delivered a letter on Saturday to the office of French President Emmanuel Macron. He urged the French leader to lean on the whole 27-nation European Union to limit trade linked to deforestation. His appeal also called for pressure on Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to halt logging, farming and development projects that are destroying the Amazon rainforest.
Ninawa left his letter with a police officer at the presidential Elysee Palace in Paris and got a receipt in return. There was no immediate word from Macron's office on whether the letter would be given to the French president himself. Ninawa wants European decision-makers to stop facilitating the trade of products directly linked to deforestation, such as soybeans, meat and wood. He's in France to attend a peace conference in Normandy, on the invitation from the environmental group Planete Amazone.
“Today we must choose between a few decimal points of France’s and Europe’s GDP, and our own lives,” he wrote.
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