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In Brazil, Forests Returned to Indigenous Hands See Recovery, Study Finds

Yale Environment 360 · Fred Pearce · last updated

Granted formal rights to their ancestral lands in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, Indigenous people have stemmed forest loss and improved tree cover, a new study finds. 

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