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Why do the protection and enforcement of #Indigenousrights and #Indigenouspeoples matter? One of the many reasons 👇 Indigenous communities are the real conservationists. Evicting them off their lands, like what is currently happening with the #Ogiek in Kenya, in the name of 'nature protection' is NOT a real solution. #forestmanagement #forestconservation #30x30 #conservation #forest

Not surprising at all. One of the best ways to protect forests is to support the indigenous peoples already protecting them.

Artículo favorito de la semana: https://lnkd.in/eauFK8uP "Our most striking finding is that empowered local governance—in the form of formal community forest management organizations and local participation in rule-making—is a key predictor of multiple positive outcomes. This finding aligns with a well-established body of research on how local actors possess a comparative advantage for coordinating local governance functions. Compared with external actors and government agencies, local actors have detailed place and time-specific knowledge of socioecological dynamics and can devise more locally appropriate use and monitoring rules. Existing research shows that decentralizing management authority to communities can support more-effective, locally driven governance processes over the long term. Our work advances these discussions by providing evidence that the formal involvement of communities in governance can help to support positive benefits for carbon, biodiversity and rural livelihoods simultaneously, and that this is likely to be true across a diversity of global contexts."

👉 The results are in: Indigenous peoples are the best forest managers 🌳 Research shows that long-term community governance of forests leads to better restoration outcomes. When local livelihoods are the priority instead of a secondary benefit of forest and landscape restoration, initiatives are more successful over the long term. 🌱 A more than three-decade study by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences demonstrates that community-managed forests create better outcomes for environmental and social issues. The study examined 314 community-managed forests across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. 🌎 When Indigenous people or local communities are responsible for managing the forests that contribute to their livelihood - through firewood, timber, food, and more - the right incentives exist for them to care for and regenerate degraded forests. 🙌 Global targets to restore forests are still way out of reach. A factor for this is the failure of effective collaboration with Indigenous people or local communities. A recent study by the Forest Declaration Assessment showed that less than a third of the 27 countries with substantial forest ecosystems and Indigenous populations had engaged Indigenous peoples in conservation efforts and biodiversity strategies. 🐝 Only by collaborating with Indigenous people and local communities living within and reliant on forests will it be possible to improve local livelihoods and restore forest landscapes into the future. 🤝 Do you know a stand-out community-managed forests initiative? Let us know in the comments. 🌳 Read more about the research here: https://lnkd.in/etMWppY6 #LandscapeRestoration #IndigenousPeople #Forest #EcosystemRestoration

It's great to see this paper released about the opportunity (and hazards) for getting #BNG to deliver for #Invertebrates Kudos to David Goddard Richard Wilson Sophus zu Ermgassen et al for getting it out there #ecology

This Webinar has all the right hashtags to be unmissable: its hard to build a business model through Carbon Forestry, so when you see an entire ecosystem come together to share what works in innovative land strategies, you just have to listen in. Doug Willmore Kalob Williams David Sternlicht Margaret Morales - thank you for sharing your experiences, lessons and insider stories about how to do it right! #carbonforestry #carbonmarkets #landstrategies #sustainability #regenerativeagriculture

*READ our new paper* Two years after completing my PhD, I am really happy to see our paper discussing impacts of 🌳 #restoration policy scenarios 🌳 for Brazil’s Atlantic Forest is published: https://lnkd.in/dF_NWNbm This was a big collaborative effort Aline Soterroni Piero Visconti @marlucescarabello International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Nature-Based Solutions Initiative Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz" 🌎 We model stakeholder-driven restoration scenarios and show efforts to meet ambitious regional restoration targets for the globally important, biodiversity rich Atlantic Forest biome require intensification of cattle farming and the inclusion of smallholder farmers in the restoration agenda. 🌽 Modelled scenarios show that under current restoration legislation (Brazil's Forest Code), and with higher-restoration scenarios, cropland expansion is still allowed to 2050. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dyqk-me9

I often get asked why ZSL SPOTT assesses ESG impacts in the rubber sector? 🌳 👩🌾 A new study, led by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, has found that rubber production leads to far higher rates of deforestation than previously thought. Focusing on Southeast Asia, the heart of global rubber production, researchers used powerful Earth observation images from satellites and advanced computing to map where this commodity is grown. The high-resolution maps show that, in the last 30 years, rubber production has led to deforestation across 4.1 million hectares, an area equivalent to the size of Switzerland. More than one million ha of these rubber plantations have been established in key biodiversity areas. At the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), we work with the rubber sector to ensure deforestation can be eliminated from natural rubber supply chains, at the same time as ensuring equitable livelihoods for smallholder farmers. Read more about the RBGE research here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eFpheuKH

The world’s agricultural lands, researchers write, hold vast, previously untapped potential for storing potentially climate-warming carbon — in fact, they could trap as much carbon as the global emissions of all cars combined. “The findings are crucial for global climate efforts because they present a large-scale, cost-effective carbon removal strategy that can be implemented within existing agricultural landscapes,” said the study’s lead author, Starry Sprenkle-Hyppolite, Ph.D., who heads Conservation International’s forest restoration science. “Even adding just a few trees per hectare could have a massive impact when applied across the 2.6 billion hectares identified in our study.” What will it take to pull this off? Sprenkle-Hyppolite explains how farms could help fight climate change — without giving up a huge chunk of their lands. -Conservation International Read the study "Maximizing tree carbon in croplands and grazing lands while sustaining yields" - https://lnkd.in/eb73am4S Dr. Leonardo Sáenz Juan Chang #blog #commentary #newstudy #farmingandtress #climatechangemitigation #farming https://lnkd.in/eS62ePTj

Many thanks to Thomas Cox for the article on our participation to the "Natural Capital - Market Framework: Engagement Paper", recently published by the Environment and Forestry Directorate by the Scottish Government. The paper serves as a blueprint for those dedicated to enhancing #Scotland's and the #UK's natural assets. By aligning government initiatives with private sector innovation and community interests, we create a sustainable path forward. With the potential to generate £17 billion for the #Scottish economy, it underscores the dual environmental and economic gains from such investments. As our CEO Cain Blythe, stated speaking to Carbon Pulse, "[...] Alongside key standards such as the emerging BSI Flex 701 Nature Markets - Overarching Principles and Framework, we believe that it is essential that organisations such as CreditNature not only help shape these frameworks and standards, but also demonstrate how approaches such as our nature credits, can maintain high integrity outcomes that deliver multiple benefits for nature, the economy and society." https://lnkd.in/e9eQGv5y