yeah, but Kenya can trade the livelihoods of indigenous people for the foreign currencies tourists bring. If the indigenous folks could create this much foreign currency, this wouldn't be a thing.
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an estimated 476 million Indigenous peoples dwell on lands that are home to 80 percent of the world’s biodiversity.
This seems important. This is a number not often talked about in aggregate, at least that I've seen. Recognizing my own dis-ease at feeling like I would have way underestimated that figure before reading.
@krewllobster worth pointing out that in many cases one of the reasons the biodiversity still exists in those places is because they're mainly just Indigenous people living there.