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Land Portal Launches Thematic Portfolios on Forest Tenure, Indigenous & Community Land Rights and Land & Gender

Dynamic thematic portfolios combine detailed narratives with Linked Open Data to provide comprehensive global overview

GRONINGEN (11 November, 2016) — Forest tenure, gender and land rights, and indigenous and community land rights are all key thematic areas related to land governance. For this reason, the Land Portal is launching the first three comprehensive thematic portfolios focused on these issues.

Land & Gender

Thirst for coltan, gold threatens Venezuelan forests, indigenous lands

By: Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres

Date: October 31st 2016

Source: Mongabay


  • Venezuela has invited foreign companies to play a leading role in developing the Orinoco Mining Arc, potentially opening 12 percent of the country to mining interests, and endangering forests, rivers, national parks and indigenous lands in the remote southeastern part of the nation.

Want to save the rainforest on the cheap? Give land to the indigenous, report says

By: Chris Arsenault

Date: October 6th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation


Communities that own the territory are more likely to conserve the forest than other land users


RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Giving indigenous people land title deeds is one of the most cost-effective ways to preserve South America's endangered rainforest, a research group said on Thursday.


Insight: Inside Brazil's battle to save the Amazon with satellites and strike forces

By: Chris Arsenault

Date: September 28th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation


BRASILIA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When George Porto joined Brazil's environment agency 13 years ago, the country didn't have access to satellite data on illegal logging -- let alone heat maps tracking deforestation patterns or gun-toting agents dedicated to stopping ecological crimes.


How times have changed.


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