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Stay atop the latest LandMark news! Check here for information about updates to the LandMark map, as well as news articles and blog posts focusing on Indigenous People & Community Land rights that feature LandMark data and findings.

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2025

Earth Defenders Toolkit (Unknown Author, 13/08/2025)

IIFB (Unknown Author, 13/08/2025)

Indigenous Navigator (Unknown Author, 13/08/2025)

30x30 (Unknown Author, 13/08/2025)

Have you used LandMark’s data in your work? Let us know! (WRI, 13/08/2025)

ALLIED (Unknown Author, 13/08/2025)

ICCA Consortium (Unknown Author, 13/08/2025)

Mapeo (Unknown Author, 13/08/2025)

2024

Let us know! 3 (Jorge A. Rincón Barajas, Christoph Kubitza, & Jann Lay, 06/05/2024)

2016

Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Are the World’s Secret Weapon in Curbing Climate Change (WRI, 11/11/2016)

Kenya Passes Long Awaited Law Enabling Communities to Secure Formal Recognition of their Land Rights (Land Rights Now, 13/10/2016)

The need for transparency in land data (RRI, 16/09/2016)

Indigenous Land Rights: How Far Have We Come and How Far Do We Have to Go? (WRI, 10/08/2016)

Strengthening Indigenous Land Rights: 3 Challenges to “Free, Prior and Informed Consent” (WRI, 10/05/2016)

3 Reasons Why Community Land Rights Are Not Legally Secure in Many Countries (WRI, 07/04/2016)

4 Big Reasons Why Land Rights Matter (WRI, 25/03/2016)

A New Global Goal: Doubling Community and Indigenous Land by 2020 (WRI, 03/03/2016)

LandMark: The Global Platform of Indigenous and Community Lands (NativeMaps, 15/02/2016)

2015

LandMark Puts Indigenous Peoples and Other Communities on the Global Map (WRI, 30/12/2015)

LandMark puts indigenous peoples and other communities on the global map (Devex, 15/12/2015)

Defending the world's indigenous lands with crowdsourced map (Canadian Geographic, 08/12/2015)

NGOs Put Community And Indigenous Lands On The Map (Ecosystem Marketplace, 24/11/2015)

Interactive Map Can Help Indigenous Peoples Secure Land Rights (Reuters, 20/11/2015)

First-of-its-kind mapping platform could help protect land held by Indigenous communities (Mongabay, 14/11/2015)

Can a New Global Map Protect Indigenous Lands? (Bloomberg, 13/11/2015)

Philippines indigenous peoples get interactive map to help secure land rights (GMA News, 12/11/2015)

First Interactive Global Map of Indigenous and Community Territories Will Help Secure Land Rights Worldwide and Boost Forest Conservation Efforts (RRI, 11/11/2015)

1970

Native Land Information System (Unknown Author, 01/01/1970)

Native Land (Unknown Author, 01/01/1970)

If Not Us Then Who? (Unknown Author, 01/01/1970)

IWGIA (Unknown Author, 01/01/1970)

Global Alliance of Territorial Communities (Unknown Author, 01/01/1970)

Forest Peoples Program (Unknown Author, 01/01/1970)

Land Portal (Unknown Author, 01/01/1970)