Sentence examples for indigenous tenure from inspiring English sources

Further, the court interpreted the language in the Land Claims Act requiring the Commissioner to investigate the status of indigenous tenure as evidence that "Congress did not intend that the rights of the Indians should be cut off by a failure on their part to present their claims".

Keys to success included baseline studies that took indigenous tenure into account, backed up by land agencies with the political will and capacity to demarcate and title the land.

It largely ended in 1984 with a government decision to halt harvesting in almost all indigenous forests in Crown tenure.

WRI/RRI's report, however, is clear in its message: The tenure of indigenous people in our world's forests has a powerful and positive impact on our ability to lower carbon emissions.

The tenure of indigenous people over these patches of our planet – who can maintain standing forests and see that the trees are not cut down – is a crucial ingredient in the complex recipe for controlling carbon emissions and thereby tackling climate change itself.

A reserve provides one important protection – especially if there is local enforcement, such as indigenous peoples with legal tenure [29].

Despite this system of indigenous land and sea tenure, population growth and growing development pressures have begun to overwhelm local governance controls and undermine sustainable resource use.

Secure tenure for indigenous people has been recognized as an important precondition for effective conservation and sustainable management of tropical forests.

Yet globally indigenous communities only have secure tenure for 10% of their lands.

In October, a study compared the health of forests in South America under indigenous management and those where tenure had not been granted.

Bob Katter also told Guardian Australia on Friday night that he had made it absolutely clear to the prime minister that his guarantee of support was conditional on Turnbull proceeding with his wish list, which includes two big irrigation projects in north Queensland, a rail line into the Galilee Basin, a canal and land tenure rights for Indigenous Australians in Cape York.