River conservation by an Indigenous community

Allison, Edward H.; Cho, Violet

doi:10.1038/d41586-020-03316-y

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“…Many Indigenous Peoples practice low impact and resilient land use, which often includes patterns of spatial and temporal resource rotation and landscape management, incorporated within sociocosmologies that value and promote biodiversity (Fig. 2) (17,29,45,46,55,(63)(64)(65). An assessment of vertebrate biodiversity in Brazil, Canada, and Australia found that Indigenous Peoples' lands and protected areas were more species rich than a random set of other lands of similar size.…”

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Global importance of Indigenous Peoples, their lands, and knowledge systems for saving the world’s primates from extinction

et al. 2022

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Primates, represented by 521 species, are distributed across 91 countries primarily in the Neotropic, Afrotropic, and Indo-Malayan realms. Primates inhabit a wide range of habitats and play critical roles in sustaining healthy ecosystems that benefit human and nonhuman communities. Approximately 68% of primate species are threatened with extinction because of global pressures to convert their habitats for agricultural production and the extraction of natural resources. Here, we review the scientific literature and conduct a spatial analysis to assess the significance of Indigenous Peoples’ lands in safeguarding primate biodiversity. We found that Indigenous Peoples’ lands account for 30% of the primate range, and 71% of primate species inhabit these lands. As their range on these lands increases, primate species are less likely to be classified as threatened or have declining populations. Safeguarding Indigenous Peoples’ lands, languages, and cultures represents our greatest chance to prevent the extinction of the world’s primates.

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