In the Ecuadorian Amazon, indigenous territories without formal conservation agreements have kept the forest in conditions at least equal to those of protected areas and, on some indicators, even better. According to the study, the difference is the practices with which communities have been managing the territory for generations, using resources without compromising the [...] The post Indigenous ancestral practices protect forests better than p…
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In the Ecuadorian Amazon, indigenous territories without formal conservation agreements have kept the forest in conditions at least equal to those of protected areas and, on some indicators, even better. According to the study, the difference is the practices with which communities have been managing the territory for generations, using resources without compromising the [...] The post Indigenous ancestral practices protect forests better than p…