Forest Peoples Programme

The ongoing deforestation of tropical forests poses a serious threat to the climate, biodiversity and human rights. Despite promises and commitments to protect the forest and ensure the rights of indigenous peoples, both deforestation and violations of indigenous peoples’ rights are intensifying. Ensuring the protection of indigenous lands is especially important as they make up […]

The ongoing deforestation of tropical forests poses a serious threat to the climate, biodiversity and human rights. Despite promises and commitments to protect the forest and ensure the rights of indigenous peoples, both deforestation and violations of indigenous peoples’ rights are intensifying. Ensuring the protection of indigenous lands is especially important as they make up a large part of the rainforest and biodiversity in the Amazon. Areas managed by indigenous peoples and local communities are better protected against logging than other forests. However, there are underlying causes that include defective legal protections for indigenous land rights and absence of effective legal recognition and resourcing for the exercise of self-government and territorial rights.

In this project, The Forest Peoples Program seeks to promote governance reforms to secure indigenous people’s rights and protect rainforests in the Peruvian and Colombian Amazon.

The project is supported with SEK 3 290 000