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Roundtable Discussion, Edgar J. Asebey, Jonathan I. Charney, Christopher C. Joyner, Lee A. Kimball, Catherine Tinker

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Mr. Asebey: I agree with Professor Tinker absolutely about indigenous rights. But one thing we did not focus on very much, and I think is one of the most important aspects of conservation, is not how many species are or are not lost, and what the satisfactorily verifiable data establishes. If you go to Latin American and other developing countries, the people closest to biodiversity are the people who are most impacted by deforestation and some other destructive uses. These people who depend on the forest or the biosystems for their living, for their survival, they are being displaced all …