Indigenous territories (ITs) and protected natural areas (PNAs) in the Amazon are emitting formerly undetected amounts of carbon, yet their net emissions remain low, allowing them to outperform other land categories across the nine-nation region. THE ECOLOGIST
Read MoreThe Oak Flat land in Arizona is holy to the Apaches. A mining company wants to blow a two-mile-wide hole in it. HUFFPOST
Read MoreRights groups are marking the one-year anniversary of a U.N. agreement, which for the first time recognised the rights of rural groups at an international level. PLACE
Read MoreAn online project aims to map all of the world's indigenous lands to secure legal rights and alert communities to the threats of illegal logging and mining. PLACE
Read MoreMaori, who account for about 15% of the population, were dispossessed of much of their land during colonisation by Britain. PLACE
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