Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares

1 month ago | nature.com | Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares |Francisco Apurinã |Amaia Gonzaga Roa |Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen |Sidney Facundes

Advanced geospatial analyses have underscored the effectiveness of Indigenous territories in avoiding deforestation, particularly across the tropics. However, the factors that shape such avoidance and their social-ecological contexts are still poorly understood. By using matching methods coupled with community-based and ethnographic approaches, we offer a contextual measure and understanding of deforestation avoidance of Indigenous territories in Southwestern Amazonia. Our counterfactual analysis of 19 Apurinã territories in Brazil over a 20-year period (2001–2021) in different municipalities showed that, even if Indigenous territories are by no means immune to forest loss, they have avoided significant levels of deforestation. Their effectiveness in mitigating deforestation is largely associated with distinct land-based governance, resilient leadership, as well as temporal perspectives and socio-bioeconomies inclusive to more-than-human beings. In Southwestern Amazonia, Apurinã nation’s land-based governance, resilient leadership, and long-term perspectives contributed to avoiding forest loss from 2001 to 2020, according to an analysis using geospatial and ethnographic data

Sep 5, 2024 | phys.org | Stephen T. Garnett |Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares

Everyday people understandably rely on information quoted by scientists. But when that information turns out to be incorrect, things get complicated. For more than two decades, the claim that 80% of biodiversity occurs on the territories of the world's Indigenous peoples has been treated as fact.

Sep 4, 2024 | theconversation.com | Stephen T. Garnett |Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares

Everyday people understandably rely on information quoted by scientists. But when that information turns out to be incorrect, things get complicated. For more than two decades, the claim that 80% of biodiversity occurs on the territories of the world’s Indigenous Peoples has been treated as fact. It has taken root in public discourse as an established truth. The figure, however, is wrong, as we show in a comment article published today in the leading science journal Nature.

Jun 2, 2024 | nature.com | Christoph Schunko |Santiago Alvarez-Fernandez |Petra Benyei |Laura Calvet-Mir |André B. Junqueira |Xiaoyue Li | +7 more

AbstractIndigenous Peoples and local communities are heavily affected by climatic changes. Investigating local understandings of climate change impacts, and their patterned distribution, is essential to effectively support monitoring and adaptation strategies. In this study, we aimed to understand the consistency in climate change impact reports and factors influencing consistency at site and individual levels.

Feb 13, 2024 | ethic.es | Arantza García |Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares |Adeline Marcos

La región amazónica enfrenta desafíos críticos que amenazan su estado de salud. La deforestación, la pérdida de biodiversidad y la falta de acuerdos internacionales se entrelazan en un complejo panorama que requiere atención y soluciones urgentes. ¿QUIERES COLABORAR CON ETHIC?