Category: Spotlights

The Sogamoso and Chucurí Rivers in Colombia Flow with Arpillería

Words by Tatiana Rodríguez Maldonado of the Global Greengrants Fund Andes Advisory Board. Tatiana is a political scientist and a researcher on the environment, security, armed conflict, human rights and communication. She has worked in CENSAT Agua Viva – Friends of the Earth Colombia, as the coordinator of the Mining Area, supporting communities in the […]

Meet the Women Protecting Vanuatu’s Resources for Future Generations

By Julia Woods, Communications Specialist Located in the South Pacific, the small, low-lying islands of Vanuatu are home to immense cultural and ecological diversity. However, these beautiful islands and the locals who call them home are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, natural disasters, population growth, and the threat of a growing tourism […]

Big Wins in the Fight Against Oil in Ecuador

By Alex Grossman, Director of Communications Earlier this month Ecuador’s Constitutional Court made a unanimous decision to reject Chevron’s final appeal of a $9.5 billion pollution judgment that found the company guilty of deliberately dumping billions of gallons of toxic oil waste into the Amazon rainforest. This was a huge victory for indigenous groups that […]

Ituango Dam Floods in Colombia

The Ituango hydroelectric dam on the Cauca River, Colombia’s largest hydropower project to date, was slated to bring millions of dollars and a host of detrimental environmental impacts to the country and its people. For the many locals who live near the project, their ways of life have been severely altered by the construction – […]

The Frontline Defenders of the Last Primeval Forest in Europe

“The half million acres of the Bialowieza Puszcza contain Europe’s last remaining fragment of old-growth, lowland wilderness. Think of the misty, brooding forest that loomed behind your eyelids when, as a child, someone read you the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tales”. –Weisman, A. (2008). The world without us. London: Virgin Books. Situated between Poland and Belarus, […]

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