00:00At this time, compared to the previous period, in this month of July, the water should be at a
00:08high level.
00:09As it is now, at this low level, it was like this in December, at the beginning and end of December.
00:18And now, look, it's July and almost, if things continue like this, starting next week it will be impossible
00:25enter a canoe.
00:33This whole area, from this little village here to the expanded property, so you can think about it, is an area of
00:43deforestation.
00:44They are practically all pastures.
00:47On the shores of this territory, everything related to livestock farming is handled.
00:53We are practically surrounded by cattle farms.
00:57And I think there is also a part of the impact on us in terms of water consumption.
01:05In other words, the refuge does not have drinking water.
01:09Because up there are the pastures, the cattle come down and dump their manure there.
01:16If it rains, the water is received by the stream and that accumulates some of the pollution.
01:25And that's where we go to the stream, get the water, and consume it directly from the stream.
01:32That is one of the health-related impacts.
02:03To reach the Coreguaje indigenous reserve of Jacome.
02:06In the Colombian Amazon, you have to travel two hours from Puerto Arango, near Florencia, the capital of Caquetá,
02:13to San Antonio de Getuchá via the Orteguasa River, one of the most important in this department.
02:19In San Antonio, after changing boats, the journey to the land of the Coreguaje can take between one
02:25or two hours,
02:25depending on the condition of the Jacome ravine, which connects the Orteguasa River with the reserve.
02:31The river began to change because of the cattle's sheath.
02:35They were also cutting down everything on the riverbank and then destroying all of it.
02:43Then they were taking all the trees.
02:46There were plenty of fish in the river, big fish, milkfish, small fish, painted fish.
02:53Those milk fish weighed about 12, 10 arrobas and even bigger, bigger than the biggest hug.
03:01We didn't need to go out to the river to catch a pintadillo or even the same charapa turtle that one
03:09I found myself there in the lagoon.
03:11There was no need to go upstream or downstream because right there, in every era, there had been
03:17charapas.
03:18And today, fishing is affected by that.
03:22Fishing, transportation, and currently the inclusion of neighboring settlers who have already cut down all of that.
