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There are at least 260 million indigenous peoples in Asia, making it the most culturally diverse region in the world.

Forests are the lifeline and cultural heritage of more than 100 million indigenous peoples in Asia. According to the World Bank Study ‘The Role of Indigenous Peoples in Biodiversity Conservation: the Natural but Often Forgotten Partners’, traditional indigenous territories encompass up to 22 percent of the world’s land surface and they coincide with areas that hold 80 percent of the planet’s biodiversity.