In Brazilian Amazon, Indigenous lands stop deforestation and boost recovery

Mongabay
May 13, 2022, 2:48 pm215 pts
Protected areas and lands managed by Indigenous and traditional communities have been bulwarks of forest preservation and restoration in the Brazilian Amazon in recent years, a new study shows. It found that rates of native vegetation loss between 2005 and 2012 were 17 times lower in Indigenous territories than…

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