Today more and more of the Congo Basin’s forest people are being forced out of their traditional home to pave the way for commercial logging, mining and agriculture. Stopping the displacement of local people with a tangible proof of their existence like a map can protect rainforest.
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The construction of new road networks and other infrastructure developments, as well as the expansion of large scale plantation and logging activities, severely threaten many traditionally isolated and remote communities, who depend on the forest for their survival. When families are displaced from their traditional lands, they become sick and impoverished. Communities lose access to their livelihoods, children lose accesses to education and health services and social connections are severed.
In Congo Basin indigenous peoples and local communities have virtually no formal or legally-recognised control of the lands they traditionally occupy, though they are sometimes permitted to use it. Community maps deliver tangible proof of rainforest peopl