For decades, we’ve been told 80% of the world’s biodiversity is found on Indigenous lands – but it’s wrong
By Stephen Garnett, Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University
Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Researcher in ethnobiology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
There is ample evidence showing Indigenous Peoples and their territories are essential to the world’s biodiversity. We don’t need an unsupported statistic to prove it.
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Wednesday, September 4, 2024