The United Nations' 2019 Global Awareness Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services recognized that when indigenous peoples and local communities held or managed land that environmental impacts were less severe. The First Nations Development Institute is a leader in its mission to American Indian economies and communities and created the Stewarding Native Lands program "to support Native ecological stewardship and improve Native control of and access to ancestral lands and resources." For more information, go to: https://www.firstnations.org/our.../stewarding-native-lands/
