Identidad y protección en derecho ambiental de los indígenas Mokaná en Malambo, Atlántico

Abstract

This article studies the Mokaná indigenous community in the protection of the environment and its social environment in the department of Atlántico; which allows us to understand the role of indigenous communities as defenders of life. Its objective is to evaluate the jurisprudential and legal evolution of the law in the protection of the environment; and as an indigenous community found contamination and destruction a problem for the conservation of their sacred spaces and territories. The methodological design makes a conceptual, historical and legal review on the protection of the rights of an indigenous community in the Colombian Caribbean region. Among the partial results is how the contamination of soils and water channels deteriorate the quality of life, and directly affect the subsistence of ethnic minorities, such as the Mokaná, who see in activities such as fishing and agriculture forms of subsistence. Another contribution is found in the identification of administrative participation mechanisms that control environmental pollution in that municipality, seeking to know the effectiveness of the mechanisms and the impact on the Mokaná way of life.