With the help of Greengrants funding, Mahonia Na Dari, a community-based organization in Papua New Guinea’s Kimbe Bay, has brought together community members, educators and international researchers to establish 23 protected marine areas. They have also started an education program so successful that Papua New Guineaís government integrated it into the national school curriculum. In […]
A recent New York Times series explored the environmental and other costs of gold mining around the world.
The West Africa Advisory Board gives priority to grants that enable community voices to be heard on the social and environmental effects of extractive industries, especially mining, oil and gas production, forestry, and fisheries.
On April 15, 2005, the Pingnan Green Association, a grantee of Greengrants, achieved an unprecedented victory against the Rongping Chemical Affiliated Company. An Intermediate People’s Court in Fujian Province ordered the company, China’s largest chlorate manufacturer, to pay the people of Xiping nearly $30,000 in reparations for health and environmental damages. The decision came four […]
The Observatorio Interamericano de los Derechos de los Migrantes (OCIM), The Center for Human Rights and Enviroment (CEDHA), the Pesticide Action Network (PAN), and Greengrants funded an urgent fact-finding mission to Ecuador.
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