is a collaborative space for earth defender communities and their allies

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COMMUNITY

TOOLKIT

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FEATURED TOOL

MAPEO

Mapeo was built with and for earth defenders to easily document environmental and human rights information and to collect data about their land.

FEATURED TOOL

TERRASTORIES

Terrastories is an application for communities to map, protect, and share stories about their land. It can be used by individuals or communities who want to connect audio or video content to places on a map.

FEATURED TOOL

COMMUNITY LANDS

Community Lands is a website management tool for communities to publish information about way of life, news and stories about the threats and challenges they face, and efforts to protect their lands.

FEATURED TOOL

MAPEO

Mapeo was built with and for earth defenders to easily document environmental and human rights information and to collect data about their land.

FEATURED TOOL

TERRASTORIES

FEATURED TOOL

COMMUNITY LANDS

Community Lands is a website management tool for communities to publish information about way of life, news and stories about the threats and challenges they face, and efforts to protect their lands.

Amplifying Frontline Communities

LATEST CASE STUDIES

November 15, 2022 Matawai: Place-based Storytelling in Suriname

June 29, 2021 ECA-Amarakaeri: Monitoring the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve in Peru

June 29, 2021 Waorani: Mapping Ancestral Lands in Ecuador

Acknowledgment: The Earth Defenders Toolkit is being built in solidarity, consultation, and co-creation with Indigenous and marginalized communities in Latin America, Asia, and Sub-Saharan African at every point of the way. We are deeply grateful to our partners who are working to achieve transformative change, and help us understand how we can best serve their needs.