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- Kynan Tegar shares how stories of Indigenous land victories that prove when Indigenous peoples have full rights, they will preserve and protect their lands.
- How can donors expand and protect Indigenous land for local communities? What barriers can donor investment potentially relieve?
- Learn more about protecting Indigenous peoples' land rights.
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Your country and mine are suffering from literal floods (1.5 meters of water in my home as I write this!) as well as a flood of bad news, so I want to share some rare good news: It’s about how a big step for my Indigenous community could become a giant leap for all of us.
Since I spend a lot of my time taking photos and making films, I’m going to show, not just tell. This story starts in 1973, just before my parents were born. A group of men representing a Malaysian logging company showed up in our hamlet, Sungai Utik, in Indonesian Borneo and offered our Dayak Iban elders rolls of cash to gain access to our pristine forests. They knew our traditional lands contained abundant ironwood and other hardwoods as prized and overexploited as the Truffula trees in Dr. Suess’s book The Lorax.
Read the full article about Indigenous land victories by Kynan Tegar at Grist.