The fate of forests and plight of the poor
Many biologically rich and threatened forests around the world are home to some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people.
As stewards of globally important biodiversity, these communities have a role to play in sustaining the capacity of these resources to provide critical environmental services—both locally and globally.
Hence, to maintain the richness of forests, we must integrate poverty-alleviation into the forest equation.
Our work with forest people
These initiatives include work with the
Candoshi and Achuar of Peru, the
Karen of Thailand, the
Dayak peoples of Borneo, and many others across the globe.
Guiding our collaboration with indigenous people for forest conservation is a set of principles, which are applied across the global WWF network.
According to these principles, we will:
- assist indigenous peoples' organizations in our conservation work, strengthen such organizations, and develop their capacity
- assist them in gaining access to other sources of technical and financial support for issues that fall outside WWF's mission