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Victoria Tauli-Corpuz

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. She is a leader from the Kankanaey Igorot people of the Cordillera Region in the Philippines and was the former chair of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (2005-2010) and participated in the drafting and adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007.

OPINIONS

Don’t Forget: Our Forests Are Valuable and We Live There

Opinion by Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
• September 1, 2016

HONOLULU — Conservation organizations dedicated to protecting the world’s biodiversity hot spots often fail to take into account why the forests are still standing. Often, it is the indigenous people who have lived there since time immemorial who protected…