Month: May 2026

The rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in Global Biodiversity Negotiations

Michel Valette, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Environmental Policy and the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, and Gail Sucharitakul,  Research Postgraduate at the  Centre for Environmental Policy, provide their critical reflections from the 12th session of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES-12) held in Manchester in February 2026. 

Well-preserved dipterocarp forests on the outskirts of a rice plantation of a territory managed by Indigenous communities of the Malaysian uplands. Low logging pressure in these areas assured the preservation of endangered plant and animals.
Well-preserved dipterocarp forests on the outskirts of a rice plantation of a territory managed by Indigenous communities of the Malaysian uplands. Low logging pressure in these areas assured the preservation of endangered plant and animals. Credit: Michel Valette

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