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https://www.ecosystemmarketplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Yawanawa-Cultural-Festival-2-scaled.jpg25602560It's no coincidence that indigenous and traditional communities control one-third of the world's remaining tropical forests, for these groups have long managed their forests in ways that provide sustenance without destroying the forest itself. To end deforestation, we must invest in them and their way of life.