{"id":13914,"date":"2025-11-23T17:59:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=13914"},"modified":"2025-11-23T17:59:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:59:33","slug":"language-matters-why-language-loss-in-indigenous-communities-hurts-biodiversity-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=13914","title":{"rendered":"Language Matters | Why language loss in indigenous communities hurts biodiversity conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Cop30, the 30th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (Cop) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the 1992 landmark international treaty and parent treaty to the 2015 Paris Agreement, began on November 10 and was scheduled to end on November 21.<\/p>\n

Hosted in Belem, Brazil, Cop30 was the \u201cForest Cop\u201d, not only for its Amazon rainforest venue, but because a focus of the UN Climate Change Conference is forest and biodiversity protection. Central to this endeavour has been the significant inclusion of indigenous peoples<\/span> in dialogue.<\/div>\n

Indigenous peoples, numbering some 476 million worldwide, comprise just 6 per cent of the global population \u2013 but almost 40 per cent of the planet\u2019s intact forests are located in indigenous territories. Indigenous peoples are thus stewards of hundreds of millions of hectares of land, safeguarding much of the world\u2019s biodiversity.<\/p>\n

Regions of great endemic biodiversity that contain at least 1,500 species of vascular plants found nowhere else on Earth, but which have also lost at least 70 per cent of their primary native vegetation \u2013 usually because of human activities and influences \u2013 are known as \u201cbiodiversity hotspots\u201d.<\/p>\n

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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks during a press conference at the Cop30 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Belem, Brazil on November 20, 2025. Photo: AFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Currently, 36 biodiversity hotspots<\/span> are identified globally, which, while comprising only about 2.5 per cent of Earth\u2019s land surface, are home to more than half of the world\u2019s plants and 43 per cent of land vertebrates.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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