Indigenous Territories can safeguard human health depending on the landscape structure and legal status

Indigenous Territories can safeguard human health depending on the landscape structure and legal status

Indigenous Territories are crucial for preserving biodiversity, particularly in tropical regions, yet their contribution to human health is poorly understood. Using 20 years of data on fire-related and zoonotic/vector-borne diseases, we evaluated how Indigenous Territories, their legal recognition status, and landscape parameters affected disease incidence in the Amazon biome. Overall, we found that Indigenous Territories extent had complex and …