Tropical Forests
The Challenge: Oil/Gas, Mining, and Industrial Expansion Threatens 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 Communities from Fossil Fuel, Mining, and Other Threats
Earth Insight is conducting research and analysis and developing tools in collaboration with our partners that support regional campaigns to safeguard forests and Indigenous and local communities from fossil fuel, mining, and other threats. The research findings generate widespread global press coverage and are being used by our partners and a range of key actors to draw attention to the urgent need to advance policy interventions designed to restrict industrial expansion in primary forests and high integrity ecosystems.
Future Direction: Advancing movement efforts and strengthening the momentum needed for protecting tropical forests and expanding Indigenous rights and livelihoods
Earth Insight is committed to advancing ambitious tropical forest protection policy interventions and expanding Indigenous rights and livelihoods by supporting a unique, full-spectrum methodology that combines geospatial analysis, political engagement, Indigenous and community capacity building, and strategic communications.
- Continued support for partner-led efforts in Amazon, Congo, Indo, beyond
- Industrial logging threat analysis
- TBD depending upon movement guidance/needs
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