We Indigenous Peoples are the Protectors of Biodiversity

The author, representing the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities, asserts that Indigenous Peoples are the world's best stewards of nature, protecting 80 percent of remaining biodiversity. The text highlights the urgent threat posed by illegal mining, logging, and land grabbing in the Amazon Basin, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and calls for global conservation efforts to prioritize Indigenous rights and ancestral knowledge to maintain global ecological balance.

• Indigenous Peoples and local communities are identified as the primary protectors of the planet's biodiversity, with a World Economic Forum report stating they protect 80 percent of the world's remaining biodiversity.
• The Brazilian Amazon and other Latin American tropical forests are facing unprecedented levels of deforestation and invasions by illegal miners, loggers, and land grabbers, who have used the COVID-19 pandemic as cover to seize lands and pollute rivers.
• Scientific evidence and reports from the IPBES and the High Ambition Coalition indicate that safeguarding global biodiversity is impossible without partnering with and respecting the rights and traditional knowledge of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities.
• Recognizing and enforcing the rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities is stated to be more effective for managing vulnerable ecosystems than any other public or private group.

APA

Katan, T. (2020). We Indigenous Peoples are the Protectors of Biodiversity. Forest Declaration Assessment. https://forestdeclaration.org/we-indigenous-peoples-are-the-protectors-of-biodiversity/

Chicago

Katan, Tuntiak. We Indigenous Peoples are the Protectors of Biodiversity. Forest Declaration Assessment, 2020. https://forestdeclaration.org/we-indigenous-peoples-are-the-protectors-of-biodiversity/.

Wikipedia

{{cite press release |last1=Katan |first1=Tuntiak |title=We Indigenous Peoples are the Protectors of Biodiversity |publisher=Forest Declaration Assessment |date=3 July 2020 |url=https://forestdeclaration.org/we-indigenous-peoples-are-the-protectors-of-biodiversity/ |access-date=17 August 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@misc{katan2020indigenous, author = {Katan, Tuntiak}, title = {{We Indigenous Peoples are the Protectors of Biodiversity}}, publisher = {Forest Declaration Assessment}, year = {2020}, month = jul, url = {https://forestdeclaration.org/we-indigenous-peoples-are-the-protectors-of-biodiversity/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }