Indigenous territories don’t look like parks. Instead, they look like landscapes shaped by thousands of decisions: forests with openings where fires were set and controlled, wetlands that flood and recede according to patterns people learned to read, grasslands where certain plants thrive because someone’s grandmother knew which seeds to scatter when. This isn’t accident. It’s the result of thousands of years of attention to how life sustains itself. We support Indigenous-led initiatives that defend these territories from mining companies, illegal loggers, and conservation projects that exclude the people who created the landscapes they claim to protect. Our partners know which battles to fight in courts, which coalitions to build, which traditional practices to document before they disappear.

When Indigenous communities secure legal recognition of their territories, they don’t just protect trees and rivers. They preserve decision-making systems that have sustained abundance for generations. They maintain languages that carry ecological knowledge. They keep alive ways of seeing land that industrial societies are only beginning to understand.

This work protects more than biodiversity. It protects possibilities—ways of living that remember how to take care of places instead of just taking from them.