Around the globe, healthy forests are being imperiled by the extraction of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas. For years, Indigenous Nations have fought to protect the lands upon which they still largely depend. Today there are many organizations and
activists striving to prevent these ecological and human crises with the limited resources they have. This mapping project is intended to help prioritize where limited resources - primarily funding from foundations - might be effectively allocated in
support of these fights.
This study attempted to identify global primary (old growth) forests and Indigenous Tribes which are vulnerable to the damaging effects of fossil fuel extraction. This project also strived to define the amount of carbon that would be displaced with the
removal of these forests. This poster outlines primary forests, indigenous territories, and areas of potential future fossil fuel extraction which render forests “at-risk”.
