Native Peoples Preserve The Environment Better Than Governments

Watching over the forest (Image: Massimiliano Clausi/laif/Camerapress)
Watching over the forest (Image: Massimiliano Clausi/laif/Camerapress)

“FOR the Wapichan, our forests are our life.” Nicholas Fredericks, a local leader of these indigenous South American people, peers out from his village into the bush. “Outsiders have a financial view of the land,” he says. “They see our forests as money. We see them as life. We have to protect them for the future of our people.”