Participatory community mapping played a significant role in the planning and development of the Kayan Mentarang National Park. It was instrumental in proving that a community-based management of the ...

Maps are intuitive and powerful visualization tools for communicating stories, experiences, and knowledge of the place. Map-making can be both empowering and a tool of control, and the practice was ...

Communities can be encouraged to participate in countryside conservation through mapping, expressing what they feel to be important or distinct locally. Established UK community 'parish map' projects ...

The Kogi people have a unique spiritual and ecological connection with the forests they live in, but the forest is now under threat from gold mining, agriculture, and human development. The Amazon ...

This piece originally appeared on The City Fix. Urban planners, designers and architects have their work cut out for them. The rate of urbanization around the world means that we have to reconfigure ...

When Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim was growing up in the 1980s, along the shores of Lake Chad, she was dazzled by her elder’s knowledge of the land. “Reading the clouds, listening to the wind, they could ...

A new study on Indigenous lands in Panama reinforces the understanding that native people are far better stewards of their properties than governments, according to Happy Eco News. It also bolsters ...