Countries are set to miss all of the targets they set themselves a decade ago to preserve nature and save Earth's vital biodiversity, the United Nations said Tuesday.
A key constituent in preservation is Indigenous populations which control around 80 percent of biodiversity worldwide.
White said they should be placed at the heart of conservation initiatives by boosting indigenous land rights -"a proven solution for protecting the ecosystems that are vital to the health of the planet and its peoples". The GBO said that some progress had been made towards protecting nature in the last decade.
The 20-year period since 2000 has seen protected areas increase from 10 percent of land to 15 percent, and from three percent of oceans to at least seven percent currently. David Cooper, the lead author of the GBO assessment, said there were segments of society with"vested interests" preventing governments from reducing support to polluting industry." are harmful to biodiversity and in most cases in the aggregate harmful economically and socially," he told AFP.
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