More Local and Indigenous Communities are Getting Land Back

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Between 2015 and 2020, Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples, along with small, local communities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, gained legal recognition to more than 247 million acres of land—an 85 percent increase. That’s according to a new report from Rights […]