Colombia granted legal titles to more than 521,000 hectares of Amazon land to indigenous communities in 2026, strengthening forest stewardship and climate protection efforts.
In Australia, the Federal Court of Australia has formally recognised nearly 1 million hectares of land in Cape York as belonging to Indigenous peoples.
Colombia has formalized Indigenous rights to land, identity, autonomy, and decision-making over their own development, a presidential decree hailed as historic by Indigenous leaders.
Indigenous peoples just received 37 land titles in the Peruvian Amazon in a record amount of time.
