1. GOBERNANCE OF ETHNICS GROUPS, BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE By: Ricardo Botero Villegas CEID COLOMBIA, AMÉRICA DEL SUR ricardo_boterovillegas@yahoo.es

2. Colombia Caribe Pacífico Cordillera de los Andes Orinoco Amazonas

3.  Colombia ranks second in hosting the world's biodiversity.  Has 10% of living species on earth.  Third place in the world with 2890 species of vertebrate species.  It has 1752 species of birds classified (19% of the birds of South America)  3,000 species of fish. BIODIVERSITY

4.  Colombia is ranked 23rd among the countries with the largest supply of freshwater in the world for its enormous orographic condition OROGRAPHIC CONDITION

5. «Páramos»

6. The country's population is predominantly mestizo. However, the presence of ancestral ethnic groups is important and more than 10% of the population, including indigenous, Afro-descendant, raizal and ROM. Nearly 44 million people POPULATION

7. Ethnic GroupPopulation% land Indigens 1’378.884 distribuidos en 84 ethnics groups, 728 guard-lands 34’000.000 hectáreas (29.8%) Afro4’261.9965’198.996 hectares titleds

8. POPULATION AFRO

9. The current rate of deforestation in the country is around 170,000 hectares per year and the reserve of primary forest vegetation cover is now hanging around 30 million hectares. DEFORESTA- TION

10. Administrative Matters.- a) The third party intervener. b) The right to request environmental information.- c) Prior consultation with the communities as a result of Convention 169 of the World Labour Organization, WLO. d) The Environmental Public Hearing Citizen participation

11. Judicial Matters.- a) The Probate Action. b) The People's Action c) The Group Action or Class Action d) Compliance Action. Citizen participation

12. Ignorance of rights and how to exercise The Problem

13. Necessary empowerment of the ethnics groups through knowledge of their rights and how to exercise. (Education and connectivity) The Solution

14. Thank’s. (Ricardo_boterovillegas@yahoo.es Bogotá, Colombia.)Ricardo_boterovillegas@yahoo.es