IPLC Territories
The Challenge: Industrial Expansion - An Existential Threat to Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
As Indigenous and other land defenders face a continual onslaught of fossil fuel, mining, and other industrial and unregulated expansion into their territories and customary lands, rights violations and violence often follows and hundreds of distinct cultures and millions of people who have been stewarding the land for millennia are at risk.
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Our Work: Supporting Indigenous-led Advocacy Efforts, Capacity Building, and Direct Funding
Earth Insight has been focusing on mapping fossil fuel and other industrial threats to Indigenous territories since our founding. We use spatial analysis and threat mapping to co-create advocacy tools in support of regional and international advocacy efforts designed to safeguard Indigenous territories. Earth Insight is also dedicated to sustaining our direct funding and capacity building commitment to provide at least 20% of revenue to Indigenous and local community partners working to safeguard regions threatened by oil and gas and industrial expansion in the Amazon and Congo basin regions and Indonesia and Southeast Asia.
Future Direction: Prioritizing Collaborations and Direct Funding
Earth Insight is committed to continuing our threat mapping, tool development, and capacity building efforts in collaboration with key partners. We are building new alliances with international partners including the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities and International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity and continuing work with over a dozen regional Indigenous-led organizations.
Apu Jorge Perez, president of AIDESEP, at Climate Week in New York, September 23, 2024.