/ 13 June 2021

First-of-its-kind rangeland atlas pushes for protection

Douniamag Nigeria Fulani Conflict
Eating into land: Only 12% of the earth’s rangelands are protected and industrial-scale farmers as well as pastoralists such as these from Nigeria are causing these areas to shrink. Photo: Luis Tato/AFP

Rangelands are ‘nature’s gift to humanity’, but have been overlooked, neglected

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