Mongabay: The Tacana have legally secured legal rights to more than 389,000 hectares of their traditional land in the mega-biodiverse Madidi region of northwestern Bolivia.
Their sustainable land-management strategies have resulted in four times less deforestation than in areas outside their bounds.
This year's Equator Prizes were awarded to just 21 of 1,461 nominations, for efforts to prevent deforestation.
The Tacana, a Bolivian indigenous group, have spent years developing sustainable land-use...