Blog Posts: indigenous people

Indigenous Peoples and local communities are some of the best environmental stewards. Five maps illustrate just how critical indigenous and community lands are to the planet.

As more than 1,200 land rights experts converge on World Bank headquarters for the Annual Land and Poverty Conference, here are some important numbers about Indigenous and community land rights, the world's most common form of tenure.

WRI’s new report, Climate Benefits, Tenure Costs: The Economic Case for Securing Indigenous Land Rights in the Amazon examines the value of lands legally held by Indigenous Peoples in Colombia, Brazil and Bolivia.