UN Special Rapporteur

Special Rapporteur's Statement About Biodiversity Report and Indigenous Peoples

Jakarta (6 May 2019), www.aman.or.id – In releasing its massive, 1800-page report today on the state of global biodiversity, the United Nations recognized for the first time that the world’s Indigenous Peoples are central to helping humanity stop the terrible destruction of the Earth’s plant and animal life. But we too are at risk, and with us the job we have been doing as Nature’s guardians. Based on the work