In the past, the rainy season was very regular, but today it is different, a situation that also occurs with floods, Bajaga Apurina who is also general coordinator of the Indigenous Organization and Community Federation of Pura said.

Now we can’t work all day in the fields because of the high temperatures, he said in an interview with the Egyptian daily Al Ahram.

Wearing his traditional feathered attire, Bajaga Apurina said it was for these reasons that he decided to attend the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is being held in this city, located in the northwestern Sinai Peninsula.

We are here to bring a message to all governments and businessmen: what they are doing is not only endangering indigenous peoples, but the entire planet and all living beings,” he stressed.

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