In addition to a special meeting of Amazon bishops in Rome in October, the Catholic church is supporting projects aimed at a more sustainable way of life for rural communities.
) said the best chance for reducing deforestation was by ensuring indigenous people, who manage or have land rights to more than 22 percent of the world's tropical forest carbon, have titles to their land that provide protection from illegal miners or ranchers.
“Yet, in many cases, these groups struggle to maintain their livelihoods and to halt the pressures from land conversion, due the expansion of agriculture and cattle, or pressures from traditional extractive activities, like oil or minerals,” Baldwin-Cantello said.In January 2018, Pope Francis visited the Amazon, home to 30 million, including millions of indigenous people.
In another community called Boca Pariamanu, shaman and catechist Ynuma Fernandez told NBC News the church is on a new path.
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