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. 2010 Mar 16;8(3):e1000331.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000331.

Indigenous lands, protected areas, and slowing climate change

Taylor H Ricketts  1 , Britaldo Soares-Filho, Gustavo A B da Fonseca, Daniel Nepstad, Alexander Pfaff, Annie Petsonk, Anthony Anderson, Doug Boucher, Andrea Cattaneo, Marc Conte, Ken Creighton, Lawrence Linden, Claudio Maretti, Paulo Moutinho, Roger Ullman, Ray Victurine
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Indigenous lands, protected areas, and slowing climate change

Taylor H Ricketts et al. PLoS Biol. .

Abstract

Recent climate talks in Copenhagen reaffirmed the crucial role of reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD). Creating and strengthening indigenous lands and other protected areas represents an effective, practical, and immediate REDD strategy that addresses both biodiversity and climate crises at once.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Carbon stocks and potential emissions of selected ILPAs in the Brazilian Amazon.
Potential emissions are estimated by simulating future deforestation through 2050, with and without ILPAs present. The difference (depicted by orange bars) represents the reductions of CO2 emissions contributed by each ILPA. Figure and data modified from Soares and colleagues ,.
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