Community Development and Indigenous Rights | Initiatives
Too often, the people who live closest to nature suffer the most when natural systems are undermined. Pressures from unsustainable approaches to mining, oil exploration, agriculture, fishing, and forestry are eating away at wild landscapes including Indigenous peoples’ ancestral and sacred lands. Overfishing leaves coastal communities struggling to support their families. Climate change, water shortages and soil erosion mean smallholders’ crops fail. Even—or especially—in the face of such challenges, the individuals, families and communities who live in the places are the conservatio...
Source: worldwildlife.org