Guardian Connector
Guardian Connector
Thriving lands and waters through data-informed guardianship
Indigenous Peoples govern or manage a quarter of the Earth’s lands. This includes nearly 40% of the planet’s remaining intact ecosystems and some of its most biodiverse and carbon-rich places.
While extractive industries deploy state-of-the-art technologies to locate and exploit natural resources, Indigenous Peoples’ robust data and monitoring efforts have too often lacked comparable data infrastructure to more effectively defend their territories.
A new biocultural monitoring tool – Guardian Connector – improves Indigenous Peoples’ access to culturally responsive, high-quality data infrastructure.
Guardian Connector was co-designed with Indigenous Peoples by Nia Tero and Conservation Metrics.