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The indigenous peoples who inhabit the Amazon basin have asked the nations who will meet at the COP26 environmental conference in Scotland to work with them to protect the 8.4 million square kilometres of the Amazon.
Gregoria Mirabal, head of the Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA) is one representative of the 3.5 million indigenous people of the Amazon.
The indigenous peoples of the Amazon are spread across 9 countries and territories in South America.
United through COICA, these countries submitted a successful plan to the World Congress on Protected Areas to protect 80 percent of the Amazon.
Mirabal believes that if this is achieved, future generations will experience the Amazon's amazing biodiversity.
Despite this, the combined organisations feel that the lack of political will of the different governments is the biggest threat to its success as Mirabal explains.
The Amazon rainforest is the largest rainforest on Earth.
However, it is being burned or destroyed at a rate of 200,000 acres a day.
Organisations believe that if 20 percent of the Amazon is destroyed, it will never be able to recover.
It's clear that their call for assistance is a pressing one.
