LandMark is a consortium of local, regional, and international organizations that have a mission to support Indigenous and local community land rights globally. Together, they have created the first online, interactive global platform that is designed to help Indigenous Peoples and communities protect their land rights and secure tenure over their lands.
Launched in 2015, LandMark provides Indigenous Peoples and local communities around the world with an online global platform to let governments, development assistance agencies, companies, investors, researchers, advocates, and others know of the lands they hold and use. It provides them the opportunity to be proactive in their efforts to protect their lands and not just reactive to imminent threats that often emerge without warning and with little time to respond in effective ways. By shining a light on collectively held lands around the world, it will be clear to all parties that these lands are not vacant, idle, or necessarily available for outsiders.
The LandMark initiative is dedicated to working directly with Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and their partner organizations to raise visibility of land rights and advocate for their importance. To make this possible, LandMark is composed of a Steering Group of organizations that are dedicated to supporting land rights.
The platform provides community-level maps, national-level maps, biodiversity and climate, and land cover & change.