Indigenous territories in the Amazon are critical for the spiritual, social, cultural and economic development of indigenous people; but are also of immense global importance as bastions for biodiversity and vast storehouses and sinks for carbon dioxide, a major contributor to global warming. Thus, indigenous territories are a priority for conservation, and supporting indigenous efforts to secure their territorial, economic, social and cultural rights an imperative for WCS. We invite you to learn more about indigenous territories and why they matter through a series of case studies of the Tacana and Leco indigenous peoples of northern La Paz in Bolivia.