Panel 1: Socioecological conflicts in Latin America and the Caribbean

Achieving sustainability and biocultural conservation requires environmental justice. However, as a manifestation of social inequalities associated with the use and conservation of natural resources, Latin America and the Caribbean are facing socioecological conflicts. Extractivism has given rise to different experiences of resistance and defense of territories of indigenous and local communities. The objective of panel is to provide an overview of the problematic in the region and what are the movements and mechanisms of resistance to extractivist projects.