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This project will support indigenous peoples and local communities to protect rainforests and fight climate change by helping them to map and protect their traditional lands under threat from extractive industries.
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Situation
Tropical forests are under growing threat from agribusiness, extractive industries and associated infrastructure projects. Combined with weak governance, this is a leading cause of biodiversity loss and climate change. Conventional conservation efforts in areas such as Africa’s Congo Basin have failed to reverse this trend, and can displace communities to make way for strictly protected areas or dubious carbon offsetting schemes allow polluting companies to continue business-as-usual.
Solution
The evidence is building that the most fair and sustainable path to the protection of tropical forests is to entrust them to the communities that live and depend on them. This project will support traditional forest guardians to create maps of their lands and to make legal claims to these areas so that they are able to conserve and benefit from them.