** Report highlights crucial indigenous community-led conservation efforts
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Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Montana's Glacier National Park borders the Badger-Two Medicine Area, one of the landscapes highlighted in a new report for indigenous conservation leadership | Jacob W. Frank, National Park Service ([link removed])
A new report ([link removed]) from the Wyss Campaign for Nature highlights the conservation leadership of indigenous and local communities around the world. The report ([link removed]) showcases place-based indigenous conservation success stories and perspectives from four community leaders in the Canadian arctic, Australia, Kenya, and Montana.
Indigenous peoples play a crucial leadership role in efforts to safeguard fragile ecosystems across the planet that are threatened by rapid habitat fragmentation and climate change. Not only do indigenous communities oversee lands that contain 80 percent of the Earth’s remaining plant and animal diversity, but studies have also found that lands and waters overseen by indigenous peoples and local communities are more likely to remain less degraded by human activities.
The lessons from indigenous leaders highlighted in the report are timely: global human activity has altered three-quarters ([link removed]) of the Earth’s lands, while within the United States, about a football field worth ([link removed]) of natural area is converted to human development every 30 seconds. In the face of this crisis, scientists have called on policy-makers and communities ([link removed]) to conserve at least 30 percent of the planet’s lands and oceans by 2030 ([link removed]) , a necessary step to prevent the unraveling of fundamental natural systems.
As the global community works toward this bold conservation goal ([link removed]) , stories of indigenous and local conservation help lead the way forward.
Quick hits
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** Utah coal mine seeks to expand its operations, but critics question why feds would allow it.
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** Major river project would maximize reuse of Colorado's Western Slope water
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** Report highlights crucial indigenous community-led conservation efforts
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** Opinion: Protect our public lands from the oil and gas consequences of this recession
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Quote of the day
As long as our homeland is threatened, I will stand alongside my Blackfeet Nation and conservation friends, working together for the ecological and spiritual integrity of our home, and on behalf of the generations yet to come.”
—Kendall Edmo
Deputy Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for Conservation
Blackfeet Traditional Territory, Montana
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