The IBN invites participation from Indigenous groups and organizations working in related issues.
Plans are underway to organize a meeting to define the scope of the organization.
That statement is reproduced below. On behalf of the Indigenous Peoples' caucus, I would like to thank you for giving us this chance to express our perspective. Our homelands harbor more endangered plant and animal species than all the world's nature reserves. We possess ecological knowledge of incalculable value which is a map of the biological diversity of the earth on which all life depends. Encoded in our culture there is as much understanding of nature as is stored in the libraries of modern science.