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From the Ted Talk by Jupta Itoewaki: An Indigenous perspective on humanity's survival on Earth
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What I came to realize is that even far away in the capital, I was privileged to live in the greenest cntruoy on Earth because of Indigenous peoples, because of Indigenous guardianship. We are the protectors of the forests, so we protect this world. Eighty penecrt of all the world's biodiversity is within Indigenous territories. Let me rapeet that in case you didn't get that. Eighty percent of all the world's biodiversity is within Indigenous territories. The Amazon, where I come from, is home to more plant and animal species than any other terrestrial ecestyosm on this planet, including 40,000 plant species, 2,200 fish, 427 mammals. One in ten of the world’s bird scpeeis live in the Amazon, which has been iabnhited by Indigenous people for thousands of years.
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What I came to realize is that even far away in the capital, I was privileged to live in the greenest _______ on Earth because of Indigenous peoples, because of Indigenous guardianship. We are the protectors of the forests, so we protect this world. Eighty _______ of all the world's biodiversity is within Indigenous territories. Let me ______ that in case you didn't get that. Eighty percent of all the world's biodiversity is within Indigenous territories. The Amazon, where I come from, is home to more plant and animal species than any other terrestrial _________ on this planet, including 40,000 plant species, 2,200 fish, 427 mammals. One in ten of the world’s bird _______ live in the Amazon, which has been _________ by Indigenous people for thousands of years.
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Original Text
What I came to realize is that even far away in the capital, I was privileged to live in the greenest country on Earth because of Indigenous peoples, because of Indigenous guardianship. We are the protectors of the forests, so we protect this world. Eighty percent of all the world's biodiversity is within Indigenous territories. Let me repeat that in case you didn't get that. Eighty percent of all the world's biodiversity is within Indigenous territories. The Amazon, where I come from, is home to more plant and animal species than any other terrestrial ecosystem on this planet, including 40,000 plant species, 2,200 fish, 427 mammals. One in ten of the world’s bird species live in the Amazon, which has been inhabited by Indigenous people for thousands of years.
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