Resumen de L'utilisation des aires protégées pour atteindre la protection de la biodiversité et sa compatibilité avec les droits des peuples autochtones: le principe de proportionnalité en droit international public

Valérie Wyssbrod

• Biodiversity loss is one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. Everyday, many species disappear from the Earrh 's surface which eventually compromise our furure. Protected areas are one of the tools used to improve this critical situation. The purpose of this article is co determinc whether the inscrumenr of protected arcas is a proportionate option to reach the conservation goal, and to analyze whether protected areas do not interfere wich one of the fundamental rights, namely the rights of indigenous peoples. To illustrate the situation, the Chagos Island case, which concerns the British Indian Ocean Territory Marine Protected Area, will be exa· mined in regard to the proportionality principle and the rights of indigenous peoples.