GeoJournalism: Detecting Oil and Gas Concessions in Protected Areas. Hands-on. [B]

Overlaps between natural resource exploitation and exploration licenses and protected area can be a great starter for diving into an environmental investigation! But just why and how could you apply this process in a systemic manner when it comes to global extractive giants?

With their #PerencoSystem global investigative series, EIF partnered with regional media InfoAmazonia and InfoCongo to track down and investigate the discreet – but globally criticised – French-British oil and gas giant Perenco. The results of their research fed a 3-part global investigation published in the EU, Latin America, North and West Africa.

During this hands-on training session, you will learn to cross-reference two sets of geodata: specifically, how to process an image in QGIS and then compare it with environmental data layers, based on the ‘Perenco System’ investigation. These methods and skills can then be used for investigations in different areas of interest.

This session is suitable for beginners.

This session is supported by JournalismFund Europe.