A long-awaited land demarcation process has begun in Brazil, strengthening protection for the uncontacted Kawahiva people and helping safeguard their forest home from illegal activities and environmental destruction.
Australia has established its first Indigenous Protected Area dedicated to Sea Country, supporting Indigenous stewardship while safeguarding nearly 237,500 hectares of marine and coastal ecosystems.
In Australia, the Federal Court of Australia has formally recognised nearly 1 million hectares of land in Cape York as belonging to Indigenous peoples.
After decades of being denied their ancestral presence, the Amazonian Kichwas of Peru saw their territorial rights recognized, setting an important precedent in rights-based protection and Indigenous land claims.
Following a decades-long battle to bring down four hydroelectric dams in the Klamath River, Chinook salmon are returning to their homeland.
