For decades, we’ve been told 80% of the world’s biodiversity is found on Indigenous lands – but it’s wrong
- Written by Stephen Garnett, Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University
Everyday people understandably rely on information quoted by scientists. But when that information turns out to be incorrect, things get complicated.
For more than two decades, the claim that 80% of biodiversity occurs on the territories of the world’s Indigenous Peoples has been treated as fact. It has taken root in public discourse as an...
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