Why Indigenous forest guardianship is crucial to climate action | Nonette Royo

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🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Indigenous communities have looked after their ancestral forests for millennia, cultivating immense amounts of knowledge on how to protect, nourish and heal these vital environments. Today, 470 million Indigenous people care for and manage 80 percent of the world's biodiversity -- yet their legal rights to these lands are inexplicit and subject to exploitation by illegal loggers, miners and companies. Human rights lawyer Nonette Royo describes how her team at the Tenure Facility, an organization that provides legal assistance to Indigenous people by taking their land rights battles to court, will help these communities secure and defend 50 million hectares of forests over the next five years. (This ambitious plan is a part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.)

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0:00.0	It's TED Talks Daily. I'm Elise Hugh. Today, an inspiring look into what barefoot lawyers are doing to save the forests.
0:12.0	In her talk from TED 2022, human rights lawyer, Nanette Royo, presents a climate change solution that protects land rights and supports biodiversity.
0:21.6	Her work is part of TED's audacious project, a collaborative funding platform to support
0:26.3	groundbreaking ideas across the world. This year, it raised $900 million. We're sharing this
0:33.1	year's winners here on TED Talks Daily all week. I come from a small island called Kamigin in southern Philippines, land of seven volcanoes
0:47.0	and the famous sweet Lansona's fruits.
0:52.0	As a kid, I would go to the forest with my father, a healer.
0:56.0	He would take me by the hand and whisper,
0:59.0	Tabiapu, permit me to respect spirit, the majesty of giant trees.
1:08.0	Often, he would look me straight in the eye and say, spirits, forests, Lansones,
1:15.9	they nurture us. You nurture them back. You work with the people who know how. I share this pain.
1:35.2	Now, seeing our world's tropical rainforest cut down, hearing the cry of our world's wildlife, losing the habitats, listening to reports of forest guardians
1:41.4	under threat in 2020, over 200 indigenous and environmental defenders
1:48.9	were lost. Illegal loggers, illegal logging is linked to almost a third of these murders.
1:57.8	With their deaths and the death of forests,
2:02.3	something is also lost in us, our abilities to survive the climate crisis.
2:10.7	Pressure is building.
2:13.4	At COP 26 last year, governments, NGOs, corporations all say yes to protecting forests and land rights
2:21.6	and call on indigenous peoples, guardians of standing forests for help.
2:28.4	Finally, we all agree.
2:30.6	We work with the people who know how, in my father's words.
2:35.7	Over 20 years ago, in my own hometown in southern Philippines,
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