Please join us all on 26 July for the Annual Call On Mangrove Action Day! This year's theme is:
"On Behalf of Indigenous and Traditional Communities and Food Sovereignty!"

We are now collecting news about other planned events to commemorate the global call for action for the Mangroves that your organization is organizing for 26 July. Please write us to share your own plans for this international day for the mangroves!

A CALL FOR GLOBAL ACTION ON JULY 26th, THE DAY OF THE MANGROVES!

MAP wishes to lend our full support to the plans and actions of all our network members for Global Action on 26 July 2007.

We ask that you and/or your organizations please join us all in a global protest against the ongoing losses of the mangrove forest ecosystems and the local communities that depend upon the mangroves for their lives and livelihoods.

Please send us your regional or local plans for actions that are meant to commemorate this international Day for the Mangroves! We would like to again share your plans and ideas with our global network.

We look forward to hearing from you soon in this regard! (The Editor)

Note:  The following was sent by the Latin American Mangrove Network, Redmanglar Internacional, in reference to this year's campaign:

July 26th - International Mangrove Action Day

The 2007 campaign "On Behalf of Indigenous and Traditional Communities and Food Sovereignty" organized to celebrate July 26th, International Mangrove Action Day proclaims a call for the rights of the indigenous and traditional communities of the mangrove ecosystem based on the recognition of our territory where we build our culture, our identity and the base for our food sovereignty.

The indigenous and traditional mangrove communities of Latin America, have millenary lived, in a vital way, related to the ecosystem.  In this space we put dreams; we find our past, our present and future. Here we live together with our grandfathers and grandmothers, with our sons and daughters, with our brothers and sisters from all the Americas and the world. Here we stand up together for our territory, for our food, for our work, for our dignity.

This 26th of July we wish that the whole world hear our voices-- the voices of the indigenous and traditional communities of the mangrove ecosystem. We hope that these voices reach all of our societies, the indolent authorities, the depredator enterprises. We desire that we can hear each other-- all the voices of the South-- and that we continue walking together on behalf of our ideals.

Lider Gongora Farias
President C-CONDEM
Executive Secretary Redmanglar International

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