The Elephant in the COP15 Negotiations Rooms: Global Tourism and Its Impacts on Biodiversity and Indigenous Peoples
By Souparna Lahiri in ECO While the World Travel and Tourism Council lobbies at the COP 15 Global Biodiversity Summit with its “Nature Positive Travel and Tourism” report in collaboration with the UN World Tourism Organisation, the multi-billion dollar industry’s impacts on biodiversity and Indigenous Peoples and local communities, especially women, is perhaps the most ignored issue in the corridors of the Palais de Congress. Wildlife tourism, which generated around 400 billion USD in 2019, has a direct correlation to …
