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Activism around the World: Highlights from September 2017

Each year Global Greengrants Fund makes over 800 grants to environmental activists around the world, helping to support grassroots initiatives to protect the planet and the rights of the people who call these natural places home. Here are three exciting projects we’ve supported this month. Argentina: Oil and Gas Resistance The Vaca Muerta shale formation […]

How these Mongolian herders took on a mine and won

A group of camel herders in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia are celebrating a historic victory. After four years of intense negotiations, the local herder organizations took on a major mining company and won. In this David vs. Goliath story, the locals won a landmark agreement with the operators of one of the world’s largest […]

News from the Bolivian Amazon

In a crushing blow to years of indigenous opposition efforts, the Bolivian government has decided to move ahead with plans to build a highway directly through the Isiboro Sécure National Park and indigenous territory, known as TIPNIS. The park, rich in biodiversity and home to thousands of indigenous peoples, will lose protected status and essentially […]

A Future We Can Vibe With

Each day at Global Greengrants Fund, our global network of people on the frontlines and donors comes together to support communities to protect their ways of life and our planet. The ways in which that support is offered can come in a variety of forms. On August 12, graphic designer and artist Marcela Szwarc hosted […]

Activism around the World: Highlights from August 2017

Each year Global Greengrants Fund makes over 800 grants to environmental activists around the world, helping to support grassroots initiatives to protect the planet and the rights of the people who call these natural places home. Here are three exciting projects we’ve supported this month. Thailand: Documenting the Impact of Hydropower Projects Communities along the […]

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