What are the potential benefits of recognizing and supporting indigenous-led conservation initiatives?

Between 17 and 20 percent of the Amazon, the world's largest rain forest, has been destroyed over the past fifty years. The majority of deforestation has ... Sep 3, 2022 ... From 2015-2020, an estimated 10 million hectares worldwide were deforested each year. Environmental scientists warn that forest restoration is ... Oct 3, 2022 ... Regardless of these recent actions, the destruction has been immense ... “We had reduced deforestation in the Amazon by 80 percent. Around 17–20% of the Amazon rainforest has already been destroyed, with almost all of the deforested areas being turned into cattle ranches. One estimate ... Aug 22, 2024 ... For example, largely due to drought and climate change, there were at least 61 percent more fires in the Amazon during the first six months of ... Sep 8, 2020 ... Deforestation. Nearly 6,700 km2 of forest has been destroyed so far in 2020. This year, as in previous years, most deforestation has taken ... Apr 7, 2023 ... ... forest had been destroyed in March in the Brazilian Amazon. That is a 14 percent increase compared to March 2022, when far-right president ... Deforestation in the Amazon has taken place mainly in Brazil, where already about 20 percent of that country's Amazon rainforest has been destroyed. If ... Dec 24, 2022 ... The Amazon rainforest was being destroyed ... Bolsonaro and his ministers dismantled much of the forest protection machinery that had been ... Mar 11, 2021 ... Scientists estimate that 17 percent of all the Amazon has already been deforested. If the current rate of destruction continues, between 20 ...