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Nature and Biodiversity
Indigenous peoples are crucial for conservation. This is why
New research has mapped indigenous land around the world, finding that they cover a quarter of all land outside Antarctica.
Hayley Geyle is a Research Assistant in the Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods at Charles Darwin University. She completed a Bachelor of Science with Honours at Deakin University in 2015, where her project focused on survey design for detecting declines in a threatened rodent on the Tiwi Islands.