The future of biodiversity is in the hands of local people. Indigenous territories hold around 80% of the world's remaining biodiversity and 65% of the world’s land is under indigenous or local community customary ownership and use. To achieve biodiversity conservation, in light of population growth and climate change, local conservation decisions should be informed by the best available intelligence, including data, knowledge, technologies, and tools. When these local efforts are informed by spatially explicit conservation goals and relevant data, there is an opportunity to connect national and global conservation objectives with local land use planning and development needs. This session will introduce new participatory mapping apps and tools by the Jane Goodall Institute and Esri to scale up conservation through Tacare, a community-led, holistic approach to conservation built on 25 years of experience working with the local communities and governments in Tanzania and Uganda.
