Forests managed by Indigenous people in the Amazon are a strong carbon sink, removing a net 340 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere each year, equivalent to the U.K.’s annual fossil fuel emissions. Meanwhile, forests outside of the Amazon’s Indigenous lands are collectively a carbon source, due to significant forest loss.| World Resources Institute
At 5.5 million km2, the Amazon is the world's largest rainforest and Indigenous peoples safeguard almost a third of it.| Cool Earth