“Ecocide Law: support for Voices of the Earth and Guardians of Biodiversity”

The Earth calls and invites us to open our ears and our hearts to listen to the voices that emerge from the beings that belong to it, from the depths of the jungles and forests, the mountains, rivers and seas. These voices come to us through the ancestral guardians of these territories, busting with biodiversity, who, from their experiences and struggles, will share with us what they are living through and what the sacred custody of the territory they inhabit really means. In this panel we will join these voices to discuss a legal tool that we consider necessary for the protection and care of Nature, ancestral territories and biodiversity: the inclusion of the crime of ecocide in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, so that those who cause the most serious damage to ecosystems are placed at the same ethical and legal level as those who commit the worst crimes worldwide.