Created in 2015, Bikin National Park is is the largest protected virgin forest in Eurasia’s pre-temperate zone. Credit: Alexander Hitrov/WWF Russia.
Indigenous Peoples and local communities play a crucial role in safeguarding biodiversity and combatting climate change, but often their contributions go unrecognised.
In response to this, Local Biodiversity Outlooks (LBO) brings together information and case studies from numerous authors, communities and organisations from all over the world. Its aim is to provide a key source of evidence of the key actions and contributions of Indigenous Peoples and local communities towards the objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Women work in rice terraces that climb the hills of Luzon Island. Credit: National Geographic Image Collection / Alamy Stock Photo.
The first and second editions of LBO were produced in 2016 and 2020 as complements to the fourth and fifth Global Biodiversity Outlooks published in the same years.
Local Biodiversity Outlooks 3 is an independent report examining what implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework looks like on the ground for Indigenous Peoples (IPs) and local communities (LCs). On this site, you can explore case studies from all three editions that present the perspectives of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in the face of the current biodiversity and climate crises.
