Indigenous land rights key to curbing deforestation and restoring lands: Study

Indigenous territories with secure land rights not only reduce deforestation inside their lands in the Brazilian Amazon, but also lead to higher secondary forest growth on previously deforested areas, says a new study. This new report, published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is off the back of multiple studies in recent years … Continue reading Indigenous land rights key to curbing deforestation and restoring lands: Study