Agenda

Spatial analysis of land change use is key for environmental investigative reporting. In this hands-on workshop, Karla Mendes, investigative reporter for Mongabay, will show how QGIS software was crucial to reveal environmental crimes in her year-long investigation into environmental crimes in and around the Arariboia Indigenous Territory, in the Brazilian Amazon.

Through QGIS and satellite imagery, she proved that deforestation on the banks of the Buriticupu River headwaters and the construction of an airstrip in Arariboia's surrounding areas were illegal. QGIS analysis also showed indications of land grabbing in these areas, including the overlap of a farm with an Indigenous territory.

*To attend this workshop participants are required to bring their own laptop and to have downloaded these files, and the QGIS software, which is available for free on this page.

Speakers