This week on Living Planet, 21-year-old Ta'Kaiya Blaney from the Tla'amin Nation shares her perspective on the current biodiversity summit in Montreal and the shortcomings of such UN conferences. And in Namibia, fall-out from a scandal known as 'Fishrot' where fishing rights were illegally given to an Icelandic company is still rocking the country, its government and its fishermen.
"Any conversation about protecting biodiversity must include Indigenous peoples at the table because … there's a really big gap between who is carrying the burden of protecting biodiversity and how much funding they're receiving," said Atossa Soltani.