came ashore at dawn and is moving northwards along the main island. it is the second storm to hit the japanese archipelago in as many weeks. these days we are constantly flooded with bad news and we feel it is well here in the newsroom. which is why this week we re rolling out a series looking at something a little bit more positive. we will be chatting every day with people who are tackling problems they see on their own communities and today we have an american bird expert, adam miller. he cofounded planet indonesia, which indigenous communities help the country s biodiversity. it actually goes back to about 2013. i first actually goes back to about 2013. ifirst moved actually goes back to about 2013. i first moved to indonesia to study birds and it was during that time living with indigenous communities within this beautiful country and really listening to the stories that they had and most importantly the solutions that they had. the solutions they
had to the climate crisis, the biodiversity crisis. also destroyed during the early decades of discrimination and marginalisation they have faith by social, political, and economic systems. it was really through i kind of like to say i hung up my binoculars and became somewhat of a reluctant social entrepreneur. so we founded what planet indonesia does really read the stories. we partnered with indigenous communities living in highly bio diverse ecosystems and we invest in their solutions. we really view them as the leaders of this process as the heroes of this process as the heroes of our future. of this process as the heroes of ourfuture. ourfuture. our job is simply to elevate their voices and you really put them back behind the wheel and controlling their social and ecological future.- controlling their social and ecological future. what of the bi . . est ecological future. what of the biggest challenges ecological future. what of the biggest challenges that - ecological future.
the world s biodiversity and 30% of the world public remaining carbon is found in the lands, territories, and oceans indigenous people manage. every look at the systems in place over the past few decades, the political system, is currently sacked dominic southeast asia is behind every other region there was illegally recognising indigenous territories. the social system. indigenous people of indiscriminate against and marginalised. and the economic systems. it was estimated last year of some $3 billion in carbon philanthropic space, less than 1% reached indigenous people. so those challenges are astronomical. planet indonesia tries to tackle those at a national level, international level, but most importantly at a grassroots level. that is all we have grassroots level. that is all we have you grassroots level. that is all we have you now. - grassroots level. that is all we have you now. i - grassroots level. that is all we have you now. i am - grassroots level. that is all. we have