News Headline
Indigenous Peoples Lands Guard 80 Percent of World’s Biodiversity
Source
The Morung Express
Publication Date
2017-02-13
They are more than 370 million self-identified peoples in some 70 countries around the world. In Latin America alone there are over 400 groups, each with a distinct language and culture, though the biggest concentration is in Asia and the Pacific– with an estimated 70 per cent. And their traditional lands guard over 80 per cent of the planet’s biodiversity.
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