The GeoStory Camps - Lovongai were carried out in the New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, with the Lovongai Indigenous community in March-April 2023. People's Planet Project has partnered with Ailan Awareness (the representative organization of the Lovongai community). Due to its remote location, the Lovongai island is one of the most unspoiled and biologically diverse place in the world. Home to twelve different Indigenous clans, Lovongai has a rich and thriving spiritual, expressive, and lingual culture. From 2006, the island faced a civil war across the 12 clans spurred by land conflict due to logging and mining industries. With little government intervention and no programs aiding the peace process, Ailan Awareness is the primary leader of traditional peace-building initiatives. Recently, the organization has seen inspiring success in collaboration across clans, with 16 participants attending an intensive month-long filmmaking and GIS mapping workshop. With 7+ different clans represented, the GeoStory Camp was the first joint project since the civil war. This project includes 16 people who have been identified as potential future community leaders, and those who are equipped with the skills to begin Indigenous-led documentation. Participants of the GeoStory Camps started to learn a variety of technological, media, and narrative skills through different modules covering the basics of filmmaking and geospatial mapping. Students learn how filmmaking tools, such as interviews, B-roll or drone footage and spatial data, can be used to strengthen Indigenous rights claims and serve as powerful evidence in court against deforestation. Evidence gathered by the communities in the form of videos and geospatial data will be used in court cases with the help of local environmental lawyers, preserving around 118,000 hectares of forest within the Lovongai territory. Learn more about the GeoStory Camps and People's Planet Project: https://www.peoplesplanetproject.org/ Local Partner: Ailan Awareness Funding Partners: Weeden Foundation, F5 Tech For Good