Tropical Forests
The Challenge: Oil/Gas, Mining, and Industrial Expansion Threatens Forests and the Planet’s Most Bio-Culturally Diverse Regions
The global effort to protect our planet's tropical forests is reaching a crucial tipping point. Extractive industries such as oil, gas, and mining are expanding in some of the planet's ecologically important areas, particularly across the pantropical belt. As these industries expand, the window to safeguard these critical ecosystems and the Indigenous Territories they encompass is rapidly closing. Urgent, coordinated global action is needed to prevent irreversible damage to these natural areas that sustain life on Earth.
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Our Work: Creating Transparency & Urgency for Safeguarding Forests and Indigenous and Local Community Territories from Fossil Fuel, Mining, and Other Threats
Earth Insight is co-creating key tools in collaboration with Indigenous and grassroots partners that support regional and international campaigns to safeguard forests and Indigenous and local community territories from fossil fuel, mining, and other threats.
Future Direction: Advancing movement efforts for protecting tropical forests and expanding Indigenous rights and territories
Earth Insight is committed to advancing ambitious tropical forest protection policy interventions and expanding Indigenous rights and territories by supporting a unique, full-spectrum methodology that combines geospatial analysis, political engagement, Indigenous and community capacity building, and strategic communications.
Future work will encompass:
- Continued support for partner-led efforts in Amazon, Congo, Indonesia and beyond
- Industrial logging threat analysis
- Building rapid response tools as defined by movement partners and allies
