Dear friends and donors,
Thank you for your continued support of the Tairona Heritage Trust. We’ve had a very active summer and here is an update on our activities.
Firstly, following a brief breakfast meeting with the OGT Cabildo Santos Sauna when he was in London in April I went back to Colombia with Felicity Nock and Falk Parra Witte two of the other Trustees to attend a meeting with OGT, the Kogi Mamas and NGO representatives of other organisations, working in the area on behalf of the Kogi. Our aim was to flesh out an integrated strategy to defend the Sierra which is once again under threat due to an increase in violence from paramilitaries and rapid environmental degradation – problems which the Kogi have constantly been trying to warn us abo