This post was coauthored by Bärbel Henneberger. Versión en español. Indigenous communities living in the Amazon rainforest are known as the ‘guardians of the forest’ because of their effectiveness in keeping forests intact. Indigenous territories and protected areas, which cover 52 percent of the Amazon and store 58 percent of the carbon, outperform surrounding lands … Continue reading COVID-19, weakened environmental protections, and rights infringements threaten the Amazon’s Indigenous territories and protected areas