Study finds Indigenous land tenure improves environmental ou

By analyzing the change in forest cover between 1985 and 2019, researchers found that forest cover change was 0.77 percent points higher each year for Indigenous tenured lands compared with those without tenure, signaling a steady decrease in deforestation after tenure.

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