section_path: Population and distribution/Environmental and economic benefits of the Indigenous stewardship of land
section_name: Environmental and economic benefits of the Indigenous stewardship of land
paragraph_text: Environmental and economic benefits of the Indigenous stewardship of land
  
  A WRI report mentions that "tenure-secure" Indigenous lands generates billions and sometimes trillions of dollars' worth of benefits in the form of carbon sequestration, reduced pollution, clean water and more. It says that tenure-secure Indigenous lands have low deforestation rates, they help to reduce GHG emissions, control erosion and flooding by anchoring soil, and provide a suite of other local, regional and global ecosystem services.However, many of these communities find themselves on the front lines of the deforestation crisis, and their lives and livelihoods threatened.