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White stork birds flying in the West Bank city of Jenin, on March 13, 2019. According to the recent IPBES Global Assessment, close to 20 percent of all bird species on Earth are at threat of extinction. (Photo: Shadi Jarar'ah/APA Images)

We are witnessing the loss of biodiversity at rates never before seen in human history. According to the world’s largest assessment of biodiversity nearly a million species face extinction if humans do not fundamentally change our relationship with the natural world. Dr. Michelle Lim says the world’s legal, institutional, and economic systems must be reformed entirely in order to halt the continued loss of nature, and that listening to Indigenous communities is an essential first step.