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 h English (en)Comprising less than 5 percent of the world's population<ref>[https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/indigenouspeoples The World Bank]</ref>, indigenous peoples protect 80 percent of land-based biodiversity<ref>[https://theconversation.com/protecting-indigenous-cultures-is-crucial-for-saving-the-worlds-biodiversity-123716 “Protecting indigenous cultures is crucial for saving the world’s biodiversity” The Conversation]</ref>. For example, in Cusco, Peru, a community of Quechua people are currently conserving more than 1,400 native varieties of one of the world’s staple crops – the potato<ref>[https://pubs.iied.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/migrate/G03843.pdf Biocultural heritage territories]</ref>. Without this safeguarding of species diversity, many of these varieties might have gone extinct forever.