Indigenous Peoples Own/Manage a Fourth of Earth’s Land

Published by the Environmental News Service

NEW YORK, New York, July 26, 2018 (ENS) – Indigenous peoples have ownership, use or management rights over at least a quarter of the planet’s land surface, and those lands overlap with 40 percent of all land-based protected areas, finds new mapping research published in the journal “Nature Sustainability.”

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