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Want to restore a forest? Give it back to Indigenous peoples who call it home
These women are fighting to take back their land.
It’s become a beacon of hope for forest restoration on the international stage, a model for other governments to follow now that more than 190 countries have agreed to conserve 30 percent of the world’s lands and of degraded ecosystems under the 2022 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. The payment reflects the value in protecting biodiversity and water resources, mitigating greenhouse gas emissions (since trees and soil trap planet-heating carbon dioxide), and even safeguarding “natural beauty” for tourism. China Kichá is a roughly a four-hour drive south of the country’s capital along roads that wind high enough through mountains to make passengers’ ears pop — past what locals have called Cerro de la Muerte or “Hill of Death” since sojourners had to take the perilous journey by foot or horseback.
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