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Michael Painter put Indigenous land rights at the center of conservation

In the Bolivian Chaco, the Isoceño Guaraní did not need conservationists to tell them that their land was under pressure. Agricultural settlement was pushing into the region, and their organization, the Capitanía de Alto y Bajo Izozog (CABI), had its own territorial aims.

Michael Painter put Indigenous land rights at the center of conservation

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In the Bolivian Chaco, the Isoceño Guaraní did not need conservationists to tell them that their land was under pressure.

Agricultural settlement was pushing into the region, and their organization, the Capitanía de Alto y Bajo Izozog (CABI), had its own territorial aims.

What outsiders could provide was scientific expertise, legal support, money, and access […]

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In the Bolivian Chaco, the Isoceño Guaraní did not need conservationists to tell them that their land was under pressure. Agricultural settlement was pushing into the region, and their organization, the Capitanía de Alto y Bajo Izozog (CABI), had its own territorial aims. What outsiders could provide was scientific expertise, legal support, money, and access […]

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