Translations:Information Booklet/61/en
Comprising less than 5 percent of the world's population[1], indigenous peoples protect 80 percent of land-based biodiversity[2]. 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[3]. Without this safeguarding of species diversity, many of these varieties might have gone extinct forever.