Indigenous land rights take center stage in a new global framework for biodiversity conservation (commentary)

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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