Standing up and saying NO to erasing our environmental heritage. Stopping land encroachment.

Imagine you’ve been working tirelessly, and passionately for decades with indigenous communities in the face of a changing climate that’s been rearing its ugly head on your land. This land has already been ravaged by deforestation and land grabbing. You have spent the last decade studying ecological restoration, environmental protection and regenerative agriculture. You have used this knowledge to teach your neighbors, the community farmers and local governments about the benefits of conserving what’s left of the precious old-growth rainforests and encouraged many to adopt regenerative agriculture and leave behind the detrimental palm oil plantations. You have personally grown up watching the country’s rich biodiversity being erased, knowing some species may never return. You’ve seen livelihoods shattered and many ancestral grounds are long gone. You have spent the last decade of your life trying to create a more equitable world.?

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