27 January 2020
Greater international support for indigenous land rights and livelihoods is a cost-effective way to limit climate change, PNAS study
Indigenous lands and protected areas in the Amazon contribute far less to climate change than the rest of the rainforest since they account for only 10 percent of
22 January 2020
More than 2,000 communal landholdings known as ejidos, and communities, have organized themselves to carry out sustainable management of forests in their territory.
In states such as Oaxaca, Michoacán, Durango, Chihuahua and Quintana Roo there are examples of communities that have managed to
16 January 2020
The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is an isolated group of mountains situated along Colombia’s northern coast, which has the unique distinction of harboring more threatened endemic species than anywhere else in the world.
Agricultural expansion has come at the expense of vital habitat over the past
15 January 2020
Rights recognition crucial to fend off global warming and catastrophic climate change
Indigenous Peoples have had a track record of managing landscapes sustainably for millennia.
However, incursions into their territories, often by settlers involved in natural resource extraction or agriculture
13 January 2020
China’s leadership of global biodiversity talks has seen greater emphasis on tackling environmental crises using natural solutions
Nature-Based Solutions, or NBS, are actions to protect and sustainably manage natural ecosystems, a crucial element in rising to numerous social and environmental
10 January 2020
Tijani Muhammad-Bande was addressing the International Organization for Renewable Energy High-Level meeting on the particular threat faced by Small Island Developing States, or SIDS, and their partners in development.
“Inaction will put at risk all life on earth as we know it”, warned the veteran
9 January 2020
Activists concerned Forest Advisory Committee recommendation will lead to privatisation, destruction of forests
The Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) has recommended that private players be allowed to raise plantations to be later used for compensatory afforestation (CA). This has raised concerns
6 January 2020
A government campaign to plant more trees has sparked a negative response from the indigenous communities of India.
2 December 2019
Both the climate crisis and inequality require a democratic overhaul. And governments globally should start by turning over legal control of land and natural resources to local communities and indigenous land users. Their rights are key to survival for all of us.
18 November 2019
Two weeks after Malagasy Forest Landscape Restoration experts came to Yaoundé, their Cameroonian counterparts visited Madagascar to intensify their South-South exchange on Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) in Africa.
The African Union Development Agency (AUDA) pilots targeted exchanges between
17 November 2019
This topic will be discussed at the Global Landscapes Forum Luxembourg on 30 November.
15 November 2019
In Madagascar 70% of the population depends on the traditional exploitation of natural resources, and land degradation affects more than 46% of the country's surface area, with costs to 21% of the Gross Domestic Product.
Under the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100), which is a