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Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Are Using Satellite Data to Fight Deforestation

  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Man building a canopy blind in a tropical forest
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

Indigenous Forests Are Some of the Amazon’s Last Carbon Sinks

  • land rights
  • Forest and Landscape Restoration
  • Equity & Governance
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Man in a canoe in Ecuador's Amazon forest
  • land rights
  • Forest and Landscape Restoration
  • Equity & Governance
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

RELEASE: New Study Reveals Mining in the Amazon Threatens 20% of Indigenous Lands

  • Equity & Governance
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Brazil nut producer, Peru
  • Equity & Governance
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

COMUNICADO: Nuevo estudio revela que la minería en el Amazonas amenaza al 20 % de las tierras indígenas

  • Equity & Governance
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Brazil nut producer, Peru
  • Equity & Governance
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

For Rural Communities, Protecting Land Is a Better Investment than Deforestation

  • Food
  • Forests
  • land use
  • agriculture
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
In India's Narmada District, legal recognition of communities' land rights have enabled villages to invest in sustainable, more productive land management. Photo by...
  • Food
  • Forests
  • land use
  • agriculture
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • land use
  • commodities
  • Forests
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

INFOGRAPHIC: Experience the Unequal Ways Communities and Companies Get Land Rights

  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

As Indigenous Groups Wait Decades for Land Titles, Companies Are Acquiring Their Territories

  • Equity & Governance
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • natural resources
  • commodities
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Shipibo-Konibo
  • Equity & Governance
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • natural resources
  • commodities
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

Indigenous Communities Fend Off Invaders in the Peruvian Amazon

  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • global forest watch
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Settlement seen from the Ucayali River in Peru.
  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • global forest watch
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

Infographic: The Economic Case for Landscape Restoration in Latin America

  • deforestation
  • Economics
  • agriculture
  • Forests
  • restoration
  • deforestation
  • Economics
  • agriculture
  • Forests
  • restoration

Restoring Degraded Land in Latin America Can Bring Billions in Economic Benefits

  • deforestation
  • Economics
  • agriculture
  • restoration
  • Forests
Forest in Brazil
  • deforestation
  • Economics
  • agriculture
  • restoration
  • Forests

INFOGRAPHIC: Why Invest in Indigenous Lands?

  • Climate
  • deforestation
  • natural infrastructure
  • Economics
  • climate change
  • Forests
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Climate
  • deforestation
  • natural infrastructure
  • Economics
  • climate change
  • Forests
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

A COP21 Surprise: Brazilian States Commit to Restore More than 3 Million Hectares of Degraded Land

  • International Climate Action
  • Forests
  • COP21
  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • NDC
Mato Grosso forest
  • International Climate Action
  • Forests
  • COP21
  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • NDC

New Platform Reveals How Much Carbon Is Locked in Tropical Forests – and How Much Was Lost

  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Forests
  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • NDC
  • international climate policy
  • mapping
  • UNFCCC
GFW Climate will help measure emissions from tropical deforestation. Photo credit: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/cifor/14626255095/in/album-72157645614284212/">M. Edliadi for the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">cc</a>
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Forests
  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • NDC
  • international climate policy
  • mapping
  • UNFCCC

Community Forests: Good for the Environment, Good for the Economy

  • Climate
  • climate change
  • Forests
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • land rights
The Yudja are one of many indigenous groups who call the Brazilian Amazon home. Photo by André D’elia
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • Forests
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • land rights