Field School Teaches Young Indigenous Indonesians How to Care for Their Forests

Takeaways:

• Indigenous advocacy groups on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi are training the community’s youths about their traditional ways to sustainably use the forest.
• In the field school program, the youth are learning how to map the potential of the biodiversity the forest and to do social and spatial data collection.
• The youth will also be able to identify customary laws associated with forests and will learn how to get other young people involved in managing their customary areas.

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