A new map of deforestation and mining and hydrocarbon investments along the Pacific coast of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru provides a key advocacy tool for indigenous, Afro-descendant, and other local communities to show the impact of these developments on their ancestral territories. It will help communities formulate joint strategies to defend their lands, as many of them lack formal recognition of their collective property rights. The map is doubly important because little is known about the communities inhabiting coastal areas and their contribution to forest and biodiversity conservation, or the commercial developments already on or planned for their lands. Asociación Ambiente y Sociedad and the Instituto del Bien Común led the map’s creation.
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