Mapping Indigenous Peoples’ and Local Communities’ Land Rights to Support the Implementation of the KMGBF
INFO
Date: Thursday, October 31, 2024
Time: 10:10
Room: Youth Plaza One
Capacity: 90 people
Hosts: ILC | WRI | IIFB | AIPP | RRI | OPDP-Ogiek | FPP | IBC
Web: www.cbd.int/side-events/6019
ABOUT
This side event is to launch, demonstrate and promote the redeveloped global geospatial platform LandMark (https://www.landmarkmap.org/), which maps the lands and territories owned or claimed by Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
LandMark is a consortium of local, regional and international land rights-focused and Indigenous and community-led organizations with the mission to ensure Indigenous Peoples' and local communities' respective land and territorial rights are recognized, making it clear to all parties that these lands are not vacant, idle, or available for outsiders. In 2015, the consortium created the first online and interactive global platform uniting numerous local and national initiatives to map and document the legal status of Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ lands and territories and help them protect their land rights and secure tenure over their lands. In 2024, LandMark was redesigned to offer new features and expanded coverage of Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ lands data in a continuing effort to increase recognition of these lands amid a sea of growing threats.
By highlighting and visualizing the respective land and territorial rights of both, Indigenous Peoples and local communities, LandMark simultaneously supports monitoring and the achievement of several aspects of Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, particularly Goal A, Goal B and Targets 1, 2, 3, 10 and 22. Furthermore, by focusing on the fundamental issue of land and territories, LandMark has relevance to the Traditional Knowledge indicators and the broader emerging program of work under Article 8(j) of the CBD. Finally, LandMark connects various layers of relevant geospatial data (environmental, social, etc.) to help contextualize and enrich the visualization of the lands and territories and has been recognized as a source for indicators in Targets 3 and 22.
The session will include an introduction to LandMark and serve as a brief demonstration of the mapping platform. It will highlight the new data, features, and functions that were recently released. Members of LandMark’s Steering Group and partners will share case studies from their own experiences, which will focus on how LandMark’s data and tools have been used to secure land rights, improve tenure security, and highlight communities’ critical role for meeting global biodiversity targets, thus directly contributing to the implementation of the KMGBF.