• krewllobster@beehaw.org
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    4 months ago

    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.

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      4 months ago

      @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.

  • lntl@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    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.