30x30 - Press room
With the UN, NGOs and conservationists advocating to place 30 percent or more of the planet’s terrestrial area under formal conservation by 2030, a new study cautions of the potential costs of using exclusionary conservation approaches to meet those targets. It also sets out how to achieve them: By empowering the Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendant Peoples who have customary land rights to at least half of the Earth.
The study conducted by RRI and produced in collaboration with the Campaign for Nature, shows that over 1.65 billion Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendant Peoples live in the world’s important biodiversity conservation areas. To read more of the report’s findings, download the press release: