China is not a country where ordinary people have much chance to influence government, and being an activist can be risky. But when it comes to environmental lobbying, there are signs the system may be changing, reports Mukul Devichand in this BBC article.
In this Forbes Magazine article on the problems of hydro power, Peter Hartmann of Comité Nacional Pro Defensa de La Fauna y Flora (CODEFF) a Greengrants grantee, is featured. CODEFF has received nearly $15,000 in grants since 2005 on the Patagonia dam issue.
An interesting development in the Grassy Narrows indigenous community in Canada that has been struggling to control its own territory. Greengrants has made nearly $20,000 to this group since 2001 through our Global Advisor, Rainforest Action Network. The
Since May 2006, more than 150 slums in Delhi, India have been demolished under government pretenses of transforming India’s capital into a clean and more cosmopolitan ‘world city’. Home to the city’s laborers and working class, slum colonies have come under increasing attack by politicians and more elite residents who criticize the specter of poverty […]
The recent discovery of the endangered blue whale off the coast of Chile will have significant implications to a pristine ecological area struggling to keep industry away.
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