an estimated 476 million Indigenous peoples dwell on lands that are home to 80 percent of the world’s biodiversity.
This seems important. This is a number not often talked about in aggregate, at least that I’ve seen. Recognizing my own dis-ease at feeling like I would have way underestimated that figure before reading.
Until people stop and realize that the birds and the bees includes bugs. It’s not like we can tell them where to be, but we sure as shit need them to exist.