DECOIN, a locally managed non-profit organisation, facilitates forest restoration and community watershed management and promotes alternative sustainable livelihood options to combat the influence and impacts of copper mining in the area.
A women-led community conservation group manages a howler monkey sanctuary to promote biodiversity conservation and help improve local livelihoods.
The Kayapó indigenous peoples are consistently fighting to defend their ancestral land from the deforestation pressures facing the Amazon. These defensive actions to preserve the integrity of their land are further supported by investments in sustainable farming and agroforestry to reduce community impacts on the ecosystems they aim to protect.
The Inga indigenous people drove the Wausikamas Movement to create an alliance with the Colombian government to reclaim rights to tens of thousands of hectares of ancestral land through the expulsion of drug-related activity in the area. The Inga reforested and regenerated land that had been degraded as a result of poppy cultivation and established various livelihood options from organic crop cultivation.
The South Central People’s Development Association (SCPDA) is a federation of 17 indigenous Wapichan communities in Guyana that works to secure indigenous land rights and promote socioecological resilience.
Community-driven landscape and ecosystem restoration emerged following decades of conflict, insecurity, and overharvesting of natural resources. Through tree planting, nurseries, forest patrols, river restoration, and improved resource management, communities have strengthened ecosystem functioning.
The Yunnan Green Watershed Management Research and Promotion Centre consists of an indigenous self-organization and participatory watershed management model, focusing on actions such as agroforestry, organic farming, tree planting, recovering fishing resources, water use management, wetland restoration, and forest protection.
A trans-border alliance between local indigenous populations sharing a cultural heritage on the island of Borneo works to preserve indigenous culture and knowledge, promote sustainable agriculture, and conserve the island’s largest intact forested and traditionally farmed catchment.
An indigenous council representing the communities of an exceptionally biodiverse region of the central Tropical Andes, has successfully gained a collective title to manage several hundred thousand hectares of land. This collective land title allows for greater control and management purview to the original stewards of the land that continue to practice sustainable natural resource management, monitor endangered species, and promote sustainable livelihoods.