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VICTORY: Zimbabwe Bans Coal Mining in All National Parks

Hwange National Park is the largest park in Zimbabwe, home to 40,000 elephants and the endangered black rhino. The park is a main stop for tourists in the region, but it is under threat from coal mining due to the limited availability of land for mining in the country. Although these mining activities clearly cause […]

No More

We were given a couple of days off at Global Greengrants Fund recently, tagged on to Labor Day, to have extra time to breath and revive from working at a nonprofit where we dive daily into upending the worldwide abominations of our times and supporting movements building sustainability and resiliency when all else seems determined […]

Strength in Adaptation: Lessons from the Grassroots

No matter who you are, or where you live, the past six months have forced everyone on earth to adapt to a world changed by the COVID-19 pandemic. For our grantees, new challenges have arisen along with the virus, including access to food, education around sanitation, and increased risks associated with continued resource extraction by […]

Greengrants’ Grantee Named to the TIME 100 List

  For nearly 20 years, TIME Magazine has been compiling and sharing a list of the year’s 100 most influential people. In creating the 2020 list, TIME acknowledged the fact that 2020 has been a year of multiple crises taking place across the world, all at once. Therefore, the 2020 list includes the heads of […]

Victory in Lebanon: Bisri Valley Dam Canceled

The beautiful Bisri Valley near Beirut is considered one of the most biodiverse and culturally significant landscapes in Lebanon, and many local farmers depend on the land for survival. Unfortunately, the valley is threatened by the proposed construction of a $617 million mega-dam project, approved by the World Bank back in 2014. Now there is […]

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