00:00This week, world leaders gather in Brazil for the first global climate summit held in the heart of the rainforest.
00:08Brazil is home to 60% of the Amazon, the lungs of the Earth, and one of the planet's vital life support systems.
00:16Yet this irreplaceable ecosystem, like many others, is in peril.
00:20In the past four decades, 95% of the Amazon deforestation was driven by animal agriculture,
00:28cutting and burning ancient forests for pasture and feed.
00:32This destruction fuels droughts and illegal fires, accelerating a dangerous cycle that affects the entire planet and all who inhabit it.
00:41In my lifetime alone, we have lost over 400 million acres of forest and 70% of wildlife populations.
00:51Throughout history, when people destroy nature, civilizations collapse.
00:56We know this historically.
00:58But those communities who live in balance with nature are the ones that endure.
01:04And nowhere is this more evident than in the indigenous peoples and local communities who conserve and protect these vast ecosystems.
01:13And they show us that we must shift from an extractive relationship with nature to a protective and restorative one.
01:20Since 2021, the Forest Tenure Funders Group has mobilized $1.7 billion to support them.
01:30The Protecting Our Planet Challenge, which Rewild is honored to be a part of, has provided $500 million of these funds
01:37and will renew our pledge for another $500 million over the next five years.
01:41Leaders meeting in Brazil right now have the unprecedented opportunity to back nature's most effective guardians through policies and funding from the United for Wildlife Global Summit to the United Nations Climate Convention
01:59to all the nations following Brazil's initial investment of the first billion dollars to the Tropical Forests Forever facility.
02:09We must learn from our indigenous partners that nature is our most powerful solution to the crisis facing climate, biodiversity, and human well-being.
02:20I urge world leaders to unite and meet this moment with courage, ambition, and bold action.
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