Right to the Land: Indigenous Land Titles as a Climate Strategy

Here’s an insight at the heart of RFUS’s work: Lands legally controlled by Indigenous peoples and local communities show lower rates of deforestation—up to a 66% reduction in forest cover loss. Listen to Cameron Ellis and Kim Chaix of Rainforest Foundation US speak about the power of land titling. Titling doesn’t only benefit the forests and the Indigenous peoples on the front lines of climate change who call those forests home. It also affects the amount of carbon stored, and the biodiversity needed for our planet to thrive.