On February 28 of this year, the POP Movement received an invitation from Indira Kempis Martínez, the Senator for the State of Nuevo León, (Mexico) and the Keystone Species Alliance, to participate in the workshop “Voice for Key Species”, which took place in the Senate of the Republic.

Keystone Species Alliance (KSA) is an organization made up of environmental lawyers, indigenous leaders, scientists, conservationists, biologists and artists, whose main objective is to identify, protect and restore populations of key species within ecosystems.

Along with Senator Indira Kempis and the Mexican Academy of International Law, the event was chaired by Senator Alejandra Lagunes for the Green Party, Vera Urtaza Reyes, WCPUN Adviser for Partnerships, and Francisco Lammoglia, Lawyer, to meet the objectives of the workshop and unite efforts and promote changes in the Mexican legislation that allow the country to have a more effective conservation and reintroduction policy for keystone species.
Civil Society was represented by various sectors: academics, NGOs, environmental, government, journalism, etc.

Senator Kempis mentions that the project presented by KSA requires the implementation of a Territorial Planning, and immediately the participants expressed various comments:

– Address the issue of mitigation and GHG emissions
– Importance of recognizing the rights of animals and nature
– Incorporate indigenous communities and industrial fishing
– Define priority landscapes for species conservation
– Make an agenda with the collaboration of Civil Society and Science
– Fundamental to develop the “General Law of Biodiversity”

To give continuity to the workshop, a second meeting was held on March 14, 2023 at the same venue, whose objective was to expand the information on the KSA project to sectors that were not present in the first session: the Indigenous Communities represented by Mindahi Bastida, the NGO Amigos de Sian Ka’an, represented by Gonzalo Merediz and Gerardo Gil Valdivia from the Club of Rome.

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