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Returning the Amazon Rainforest to Its True Caretakers


Indigenous peoples forced from the Amazon rainforest are finally getting the legal power to return—and it’s not only about justice. Under their stewardship, the forests can thrive.

Their return will drive a movement of indigenous peoples across the Amazon rainforest fighting for legal titles to their ancestral territories, and winning. In September 2022, the Siekopai filed a suit against the government of Ecuador to regain ownership over Pë’këya, part of their ancestral territory located along the border. In Peru, they’re going to dismantle the legal and political barriers to titling an estimated 40 million acres of ancestral indigenous territory in the Amazon.

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