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Ramiro Batzin, IUCN Councillor and Director of Sotz’il – an indigenous organisation from Guatemala, highlights the important and intrinsic relationship between indigenous governance and conservation ahead of the World Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nature on 3 September 2021.
Grassroots support for the world’s 1.5 billion smallholder farmers – who are highly vulnerable to climate threats – to help them diversify their crops, products and practices is increasing food security while conserving forests, storing carbon and creating resilient landscapes.
This was the message arising from a virtual “independent dialogue” held...
Video highlights of the Forum featuring the sessions held and translated in many languages, speakers and some photos of our community partners connecting to the event online in their respective areas.
Indigenous Peoples and local communities protect 840 million hectares of forests around the world and manage over 246 GtC, but yet more than half is unsecured. On World Environment Day, the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities is launching a new video today to highlight that indigenous peoples are the...
Trees need locally-grown politics
04/06/2021
04/06/2021
Presidents and celebrities planting trees are in the news again, and with green post-COVID-19 recovery plans afoot and the launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, James Mayers considers what it will take to get the right trees planted and looked after in the right places, by people who...