Kicking Native People Off Their Land Is a Horrible Way to Save the Planet
Kicking Native People Off Their Land Is a Horrible Way to Save the Planet
Forcing Indigenous people out of protected areas they help manage and rely on is not the way to achieve biodiversity and climate goals.
an estimated 476 million Indigenous peoples dwell on lands that are home to 80 percent of the world’s biodiversity.
This seems important. This is a number not often talked about in aggregate, at least that I've seen. Recognizing my own dis-ease at feeling like I would have way underestimated that figure before reading.
@krewllobster worth pointing out that in many cases one of the reasons the biodiversity still exists in those places is because they're mainly just Indigenous people living there.
yeah, but Kenya can trade the livelihoods of indigenous people for the foreign currencies tourists bring. If the indigenous folks could create this much foreign currency, this wouldn't be a thing.