A shocking new report says wildlife populations have declined nearly 70% in just a few decades.
Millions of years of evolution creating unique, magical animals like elephants, giraffes, owls...being wiped out by human greed to plunder nature.
But scientists say there's still a way back: turning over protection of huge swathes of land to Indigenous groups with proven records of living at peace with nature.
There's one problem: Indigenous people rarely get credit for this work -- and even more rarely get the financial support they need to have their land ownership acknowledged and respected, or to defend those lands against corporate raiders.
That's why we constantly get requests from Indigenous groups to help them protect their land. And that's why we want to set up a game-changing Global Indigenous Land Protection Fund that we can rapidly draw on to safeguard Indigenous land -- and nature -- whenever it comes under threat. Can you chip in to help set it up -- and give nature room to breathe again?
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Indigenous people are the world’s biggest conservationists, but they rarely get credit for it
Vox. 11 June 2021.
Vox. 11 June 2021.
69% average decline in wildlife populations since 1970, says new WWF report
World Wildlife Fund. 13 October 2022.
World Wildlife Fund. 13 October 2022.