Thread by @EaglesElatis, Vegans who actually care already have the facts but bigoted vegans hide [...]

Vegans who actually care already have the facts but bigoted vegans hide from reality to sustain their racist beliefs because they care more about their delusional biases than they care about any animals
This thread of citations is for them
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Oxford:
"Indigenous knowledge of place-based biodiversity is perhaps the oldest scientific tradition on earth. We illustrate how TBIN projects in collaboration with the Comcaac is advancing not only biosystematics but also species recovery" https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/66/6/499/2754233

Importance of Indigenous Knowledge in Curbing the Loss of Language and Biodiversity

Biodiversity inventory, monitoring, and species-recovery efforts can be advanced by a dynamic collaboration of Western, citizen, and ethnoscience. Indigenous an

https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/66/6/499/2754233

"Indigenous knowledge & biodiversity are complementary phenomena essential to human development & represents an immensely valuable data base that provides humankind with insights on how numerous communities have interacted with their changing environment"
http://www.ciesin.org/docs/004-173/004-173.html

"Indigenous peoples defend Earth's biodiversity—but they're in danger. Comprising less than 5% of the world's population, indigenous people protect 80% of global biodiversity."
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/11/can-indigenous-land-stewardship-protect-biodiversity-/

"A million species face extinction without major changes to the way we interact with nature...But there is a bright spot: this decline is happening at a slower rate on indigenous peoples’ lands" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-conservation-efforts-can-learn-from-indigenous-communities/

What Conservation Efforts Can Learn from Indigenous Communities

A major U.N.-backed report says that nature on indigenous peoples’ lands is degrading less quickly than in other areas

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-conservation-efforts-can-learn-from-indigenous-communities/

"Indigenous peoples cultivate strong relationships with their natural environments & have developed & often maintain traditional management practices & knowledge that contribute to biodiversity conservation & to the sustainable use of natural resources." https://www.iucn.org/theme/governance-and-rights/about/our-work/indigenous-peoples

Indigenous Peoples

At the same time, the close relationship of indigenous peoples to their environments means that they are often first and most severely affected by the impacts of climate change and environmental

https://www.iucn.org/theme/governance-and-rights/about/our-work/indigenous-peoples

Harvard School of Public Health:
"Indigenous communities often act as stewards of local living natural resources based on generations of accumulated traditional knowledge"
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https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/174012/9789241508537_eng.pdf;jsessionid=0A8A6E5A7102DEC72E61D4CACCB60B6D?sequence=1

Updating this thread to add studies that either weren't available w/o paid access or weren't published yet

"Indigenous Lands, Protected Areas, and Slowing Climate Change" 1/? https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1000331

Indigenous Lands, Protected Areas, and Slowing Climate Change

Recent climate talks in Copenhagen reaffirmed the crucial role of reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD). Creating and strengthening indigenous lands and other protected areas...

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1000331

In mountains, indigenous peoples’ systems preserve soil, reduce erosion, conserve water & reduce the risk of disasters. In rangelands, indigenous pastoralist communities manage cattle grazing & cropping in sustainable ways that preserve biodiversity
http://www.fao.org/zhc/detail-events/en/c/1028010/

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