Locally-managed ecosystems
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Policies changed
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Practises changed
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Agendas
The evidence is unequivocal: when Indigenous Peoples and local communities have land rights, our ecosystems thrive.
Recognising and respecting Indigenous Peoples’ as well as other local communities’ land and territorial rights empowers these communities to play a central role in protecting critical ecosystems and ensuring land is managed sustainably.
Healthy ecosystems, in turn, are critical for absorbing carbon emissions, as well as promoting our planetary resilience against shocks while adapting to a changing climate.
Unlike colonial or ‘fortress conservation’ - the exclusive and enclosed restoration practices that still constitute the majority of the global conservation movement, and often undermine land rights of communities who have long been an integral part of local ecosystem management.
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Our ecosystem heroes
ILC partners with the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
The International Land Coalition is proud to announce its partnership with the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.
The Decade launched June 5th on World Environment Day and will run until 2030, just in time for the deadline of the Sustainable Development Goals. It aims to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems on every continent and in every ocean.
As a supporting partner, we’re committed to ensuring that the voices of local communities and Indigenous Peoples are given a platform to share with the world their community-led restoration initiatives - agro-ecological practices, community-led forest and rangelands management.
More often than not, these sustainable practices are not recognised and hardly taken into account in policy and regulation.
ILC COLEAD'S CHALLENGE 5
In 2021, ILC became a proud partner of the UN Decade for Ecosystem Restoration. Now we're here to help take the Decade one-step further as co-leads of challenge 5, teaming up to achieve the objectives set by the UN Decade up by 2030. Through the partnership, our aim is to restore land and resource rights to Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
Watch our challenge video
ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION ACTION PLAN BOOKLET
This action plan is a living document by the UN Decade partner network to collectively work towards the goals and vision of this UN Decade. Moving from strategy to action, this plan allows all existing and new partners to mobilize around key priority areas for restoration – including Restoration Challenge 5.
Looking after lagoons in Ecuador
Press Release: Local solutions from the ground up key to community-based ecosystem restoration
16 diciembre 2021
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SEGURAR LOS DERECHOS A LA TIERRA PARA LUCHAR CONTRA LA CRISIS CLIMÁTICA
5 junio 2022
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No Time to Waste: Climate Action through Secure Land Rights and Sustainable Land Use
10 noviembre 2022
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Payment for ecosystem services connects urban community with indigenous people
16 marzo 2016
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Protecting forests and securing customary rights through Community Forest Governance
11 marzo 2017
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