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Indigenous territories maintain Amazon forest just as well as protected areas, study finds

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A new study has found that in Ecuador’s Amazon, Indigenous territories without formal conservation contracts maintained forest conditions just as well as formal protected areas. Ecuador has three different approaches to forest governance: Forests protected by government institutions, forests managed by local communities under formal conservation agreements and Indigenous territories without formal conservation agreements. To […]

First report: How Indigenous Protected Areas became a vital way to protect nature in Australia — phys.org, 7d