Category: Spotlights

Activism Around the World: Highlights from May 2016

Each year Global Greengrants Fund makes over 700 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. We wish we could share every single story. Below are a few grants made recently that we’d like to […]

The Mekong River Is Not For Sale

Photos and words by Gary Wockner “Preserving ‘local knowledge’ is different than westernized ‘nature protection.’ We are protecting people’s habitats, their homes, lives, food, and voices.” – Chak Kineesee, Program and Outreach Director at the Mekong School for Local Knowledge In April of 2016, I traveled to northern Thailand to meet with a Global Greengrants […]

Saving Manila’s Last Mangrove Forest

Photos and words by Ramey Newell, donor and former staff member A year ago, I didn’t know much about the Philippines. I didn’t know that it is among the 10 most biologically diverse countries on the planet, or that metropolitan Manila is the 11th most populous metro area in the world. I couldn’t utter a word […]

How to Challenge Large-Scale Mining in Latin America

In true David vs. Goliath style, Máxima Acuña, a 47 year-old Peruvian subsistence farmer and mother of four, stood up to Newmont Mining Corporation, owner of some of the world’s largest and most lucrative gold mines.  Máxima refused to sell the 60-acre plot of land to Newmont’s local venture Yanacocha. Despite being sued by the […]

Celebrating the 2016 Goldman Environmental Prizewinners

Congratulations to the 2016 Goldman Environmental Prizewinners for their truly visionary grassroots environmental leadership! We are especially thrilled to acknowledge Edward Loure and Máxima Acuna, members of grassroots groups Global Greengrants has supported in the past. We honor them and all of the 2016 Prizewinners for their brave dedication to protecting vulnerable people and ecosystems. […]

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