Editing Forest (section)

=== Indigenous peoples ===
Forests are fundamental to the culture and livelihood of indigenous people groups that live in and depend on forests,<ref>{{cite web |title=Interview: Deforestation Threatens Indonesia's Indigenous Peoples |url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/09/22/interview-deforestation-threatens-indonesias-indigenous-peoples |website=Human Rights Watch|date=22 September 2019 }}</ref> many of which have been removed from and denied access to the lands on which they lived as part of global [[colonialism]]. Indigenous lands contain 36% or more of intact forest worldwide, host more biodiversity, and experience less deforestation.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Cannon |first1=John |title=Indigenous lands hold 36% or more of remaining intact forest landscapes |url=https://news.mongabay.com/2020/01/indigenous-lands-hold-36-or-more-of-remaining-intact-forest-landscapes/ |website=Mongabay|date=16 January 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Carrington |first1=Damian |title=Indigenous peoples by far the best guardians of forests – UN report |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/25/indigenous-peoples-by-far-the-best-guardians-of-forests-un-report |newspaper=The Guardian|date=25 March 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Chemnick |first1=Jean |title=Amazon Deforestation Falls Where Land Is under Indigenous Control |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/amazon-deforestation-falls-where-land-is-under-indigenous-control/ |website=Scientific American}}</ref> Indigenous activists have argued that degradation of forests and indigenous peoples' marginalization and land dispossession are interconnected.<ref>{{cite web |title=Indigenous Peoples Excluded from Political Power, Ejected from Lands, Faced Corporations Bent on Destroying Life-Giving Forests, Permanent Forum Told |url=https://press.un.org/en/2010/hr5021.doc.htm |website=United Nations Meetings Coverage and Press Releases}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Doolittle |first1=Amy |title=The Politics of Indigeneity: Indigenous Strategies for Inclusion in Climate Change Negotiations |journal=Conservation & Society |date=2010 |volume=8 |issue=4|page=256 |doi=10.4103/0972-4923.78142 |hdl=10535/8315 |hdl-access=free |doi-access=free }}</ref> Other concerns among indigenous peoples include lack of Indigenous involvement in forest management and loss of knowledge related for the forest ecosystem.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Carson |first1=Savanna L. |last2=Kentatchime |first2=Fabrice |last3=Nana |first3=Eric Djomo |last4=Njabo |first4=Kevin Y. |last5=Cole |first5=Brian L. |last6=Godwin |first6=Hilary A. |title=Indigenous Peoples' Concerns About Loss of Forest Knowledge: Implications for Forest Management |journal=Conservation & Society |date=2018 |volume=16 |issue=4}}</ref> Since 2002, the amount of land that is legally owned by or designated for indigenous peoples has broadly increased, but land acquisition in lower-income countries by multinational corporations, often with little or no consultation of indigenous peoples, has also increased.<ref>{{cite tech report | last=Savedoff | first=William | title=Competing or Complementary Strategies?: Protecting Indigenous Rights and Paying to Conserve Forests | year=2018 | jstor=resrep29743.4 | page=4–10}}</ref> Research in the Amazon rainforest suggests that indigenous methods of agroforestry form reservoirs of biodiversity.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sanabria |first1=Catalina |last2=Achury |first2=Rafael |title=Amazonian indigenous territories as reservoirs of biodiversity - Territorios indígenas amazónicos como reservorio de biodiversidad: The army ants of Santa Sofia (Amazonas – Colombia) |journal=Caldasia |date=2022 |volume=44 |issue=2|doi=10.15446/caldasia.v44n2.92330 |doi-access=free }}</ref> In the U.S. state of [[Wisconsin]], forests managed by indigenous people have more plant diversity, fewer invasive species, higher tree regeneration rates, and higher volume of trees.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Waller |first1=Donald M. |last2=Reo |first2=Nicholas J. |title=First stewards: ecological outcomes of forest and wildlife stewardship by indigenous peoples of Wisconsin, USA |journal=Ecology and Society |date=2018 |volume=23 |issue=1|doi=10.5751/ES-09865-230145 |doi-access=free }}</ref>