Wayfinders Circle 2022 Annual Report - Flipbook - Page 7
BACKGROUND
37.5
million
hectares of land
72.8
million
hectares of oceans
484
thousand
Indigenous people
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WE ARE our
TERRITORIES
The original Wayfinders Circle members come from 12 Indigenous lands
and waters from around the world. Their territories cover more than 37.5
million hectares of land, and 72.8 million hectares of oceans. They are the
home of 484,000 people.
Governance systems vary greatly among the Wayfinders, as do their ecosystems, and
includes a diversity of tropical forest communities such as the Mayangna people in Nicaragua, the Achuar of Ecuador, the Wampis of Peru, and the Sungai Utik community in
Indonesia. This diversity is found in temperate boreal forest communities such as the
Udege people in Russia, as well as the Heiltsuk in Canada; and in oceanic island communities such as the Rapa Nui in the Pacific. Other Wayfinders communities are situated in
semi-arid areas, such as the lands managed by the Native American Land Conservancy in
the United States, and by the traditional owners of the 36 different clan groups that
manage the Warddeken Indigenous Protected Area in Arnhem Land, Australia. Wayfinders
live in grasslands and mountain communities such as those occupied by the Blackfoot
Confederacy in North America, as well as in pastoralist and herding communities such as
the Gabbra people in Kenya, and the Sámi in Sweden.
The initiative is aligned with Nia Tero and Pawanka Fund commitments to work in
solidarity with Indigenous Peoples who sustain thriving territories and cultures to
strengthen guardianship of Earth and all beings.
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