Guardians of the Forest: Reporting on Indigenous Leadership in Climate Action

The Amazon and other tropical forests are far more than the lungs of the Earth. They are home to millions of people, sources of food and livelihoods, and living cultural landscapes.

The Solutions Insights Lab gathered Daniela Orofino (NOSSAS/Amazônia de Pé), Silvia Gómez (Climate and Land Use Alliance), Andrés Mogro (Fundación Avina), and Renata Fleck Pontes dos Santos (Amazon Investor Coalition) to help journalists strengthen their reporting by connecting the dots between Indigenous rights and effective climate action. They dug into how securing Indigenous land tenure not only protects forests, but also sustains food systems, strengthens local economies, and upholds cultural traditions.

The speakers presented insights from What's Working: Insights on Climate Action, a project from the Solutions Insights Lab supported by the Skoll Foundation. The Solutions Insights Lab is an initiative of the Solutions Journalism Network, and not a work of journalism. The interviewing approach has been standardized and the individuals interviewed were specifically selected as part of the project.