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Although only 5% of the population, Indigenous Peoples protect more than 80% of our planet’s biodiversity – but they struggle finding funding. The Kayapo people, an indigenous tribe protecting the largest continuous tropical forest area in the Amazon, have an evocative word for money. They call it piu caprim — the ‘sad leaves’. Money has in the past motivated illegal …
There is no better evidence of humanity’s impact on Earth than the billions of hectares of land we have converted from natural vegetation into agriculture. While these vast expanses of croplands and pastures have fed the world, the once fertile soils below them have become degraded, depleted, and tired. The loss of carbon previously stored in these soils, in addition …
