Deforestation rates are significantly lower in forests protected and governed by Indigenous people, according to a new report.

The finding comes from an analysis of more than 300 scientific studies on forests in Indigenous and tribal territories in Latin America and the Caribbean over the last two decades.

The report published Thursday by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Fund for the Development of the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean found that, on average, forests in Indigenous and tribal territories have been much better conserved than other forests in the region.

From 2006 to 2011, Indigenous-controlled forests in the Peruvian Amazon reduced deforestation by twice as much as other protected areas in the region, according to the report.

In the Amazon Basin, home to at least 10% of the worlds known biodiversity , levels of forest destruction in Indigenous territories from 2003 to 2016 were lower than in other protected areas. Indigenous territories cover a total of 28% of the Amazon Basin but account for only 2.6% of the carbon emissions, the report found.