OpEd: “Human Rights Hold the Key to Protecting Biodiversity”


As governments seek an agreement on a global plan to halt the rapid loss of the world’s biodiversity, indigenous peoples’, smallholder farmers’, and other agroecological communities’ rights are being sidelined. Yet it is precisely these groups who know how to preserve our precious natural systems.

Read the OpEd by Sofia Monsalve and Georgina Catacora-Vargas here:

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/human-rights-key-to-biodiversity-protection-by-sofia-monsalve-and-georgina-catacora-vargas-2022-08