Overview The Teribe-Changuinola Watershed, in Western Panama, is home to the indigenous Naso and Ngobe peoples, and to some of the most important animal habitats in the hemisphere. Unfortunately, in the early 1970s the government of Panama discovered that the region also has the country’s largest potential for hydroelectric power. The result has been a […]
In May of 2006, Greengrants awarded its $10,000,000th dollar in grants. That makes 2,754 grants made in 120 countries over 13 years.
Father Marco Arana of Cajamarca, Peru, is founder of the Group for Training and Intervention for Sustainable Development (GRUFIDES). GRUFIDES helps community leaders and local residents monitor environmental impacts in their communities.
Shrimp is no longer the luxury food that it once was: in 2001 it surpassed canned tuna as the number one seafood consumed in the United States. From Thailand to Ecuador, a number of developing nations have created large-scale shrimp production industries. In Brazil, shrimp production has been growing by more than 50 percent a […]
While fishing takes many forms, using bombs is certainly one of the most outrageous. This distinctive practice does extensive damage to the surrounding marine environment and to the bomb fishermen themselves. Unfortunately, in Brazil this illegal practice is still widespread. Global Greengrants Fund grantee Canto Ecológico, a husband and wife team of dedicated environmentalists, has inserted […]
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