•••      Indigenous People have traditional land claims for 18-24 percent of the earth's land surface      •••      More than 11 percent of earth’s land mass is designated as protected      •••      Indigenous Stewardship could double protected land areas      •••      Indigenous territories overlap remaining biodiversity hotspots      •••      Indigenous territories span major conservation priorities      •••      Indigenous People inhabit over 85 percent of protected areas      •••
 
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Colonialism by other means? The donor–indigenous peoples landscape is a jumble of different types of organizations that support indigenous causes, but they all have one thing in common: they do not understand how indigenous people think, how they make their decisions, how they run their daily lives. Nor do they understand the simple fact that imposing alien Western ideas is the antithesis of effective philanthropy. Read more...

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Stories from the CommunityA LOW FOG ENVELOPES the steep and remote valleys of southwestern Uganda most mornings, as birds found only in this small corner of the continent rise in chorus and the great apes drink from clear streams. Read more...

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