High hopes for biodiversity, but who will pay?
Zero: The Climate Race
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The Importance of Inclusion in Conservation
conservation has a history of excluding people from areas that are theirs. Good example is the Yellowstone National Park, think of beauty, but that was founded by forcibly removing indigenous people of their land. Studies just in the past five years have shown that lands and waters that are managed by indigenous peoples and local communities have greater biodiversity than those which are more extractivelymanaged. And so we have seen it's in the Amazon and in parts of the Congo and other places where communal activity, activity that manages it for the long term benefit for multiple generations can have real biodiversity benefits and real climate benefits.
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