Katie Reytar and Peter Veit, World Resources Institute
Indigenous groups and local communities occupy about half the world’s land, but hold legal rights to only a fraction of it. Credit: Michele Solmi/Flickr– Indigenous Peoples and local communities are some of the best environmental stewards. Their livelihoods and cultures depend on forests, clean water and other natural resources, so they have strong incentives to sustainably manage their lands.
LandMark, the first global platform to provide maps of land held by Indigenous Peoples and local communities, last month released new carbon storage, tree cover loss, natural resource concessions, dam locations and other data layers that shed light on the environment in which these lands exist. Now anyone, anywhere can view and analyze indigenous and local communities’ environmental contributions and identify threats to specific lands. Tiếp tục đọc “Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities Vital to the Global Environment”
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