International: Forest Peoples - Numbers Across The World


International: Forest Peoples - Numbers Across The World   Sophie Chao, 2012   Forests cover almost one third of the world’s land area and nearly all are inhabited by indigenous and rural communities who have customary rights to their forests and have developed ways of life and traditional knowledge that are attuned to their forest environments. These communities have been managing the environment through their own systems based on traditional knowledge, practices, rules and beliefs...

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