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Indigenous leaders in Ecuador demanding an end to new oil and mining concessions on their lands. Photo by Kimberly Brown, Mongabay 2017
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Indigenous land rights have taken center stage at negotiations currently underway in Geneva for the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity. Karl Burkart, Deputy Director of One Earth, says this is a critically important development: “If we truly want to achieve the top-level goal of the UN Convention, to save biodiversity and reverse the extinction crisis, we must simultaneously secure the land rights of Indigenous peoples and local communities at scale.

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