A new report reveals that investing in securing the land rights of Indigenous and tribal communities across Latin America and the Caribbean could cut carbon dioxide emissions at low costs to governments, potentially benefiting the global climate.
The architect Charles Bello has spent the past 52 years restoring forests from logging and protecting the land on his 400-acre ranch in Northern California.
Germany plans to phase out coal power by 2038. The embattled Hambach Forest is now protected, but some villages will still have to make way for the last open-pit mines. Activists and local residents are appalled.
In a wild, roadless area in remote northern British Columbia, First Nations land guardians keep tabs on their traditional territory, including in an area proposed for a new Kaska Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area.