Who we are
FPP’s teams have expertise in land rights, environment, development, and indigenous affairs with high-level qualifications in social anthropology, human rights law, tropical forest ecology and environmental science. The team has longstanding and extensive experience working directly with indigenous and forest peoples around the globe.
Our Human Rights Work
Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) is an international NGO that has been working with indigenous peoples and forest peoples for over 30 years since it was established in 1990. As of 2024, we work in 20 countries across South and Central America, Africa, and Southeast Asia, with around 60 partners based in the tropical forest belt. We work directly and in solidarity with communities and peoples, supporting them to secure their rights to their traditional lands, territories, and resources, protect their forests and ways of life,and choose their own futures.
Vision
Forests are owned and controlled by forest peoples in ways that ensure sustainable livelihoods, equity and well-being based on respect for their rights, knowledge, cultures, and identities.
Mission
FPP supports the rights of peoples who live in forests and depend on them for their livelihoods. We work to create political space for forest peoples to secure their rights, control their lands and decide their own futures.
Around 300 million people, made up of local communities and indigenous peoples, traditionally live in forests and primarily depend on them for their livelihoods
Indigenous peoples and local communities protect more than 50% of the world's land surface, but have formally recognised ownership over just 10%.
Protecting forests is often a deadly risk for indigenous peoples and local communities
In 2017, there were 207 documented murders of environmental defenders.