We congratulate Greengrants grantee Libia Grueso, co-founder of Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN) in Colombia, for winning a 2004 Goldman Environmental Prize. She was recognized for her work leading rural Afro-Colombian communities toward greater territorial autonomy and for helping to protect Colombia’s Pacific rain forest. Grueso is credited with leading a campaign that gained territorial […]
by Jessica Sherman Fernando Chiyoc Albizures and MaytÌn Castellanos would be pleased to know about the progress their neighbors in Champerico have achieved since their murders in 2001. These two young men (ages 14 and 22) were killed in separate incidents protesting the actions of the shrimp farming company Camarones S.A. (Camarsa) when factory guards […]
Von Hernandez, was honored with a 2003 Goldman Environmental Prize, considered to be the Nobel Prize for grassroots environmental leaders, for his work campaigning against waste incineration in the Philippines and beyond. Among his many roles in this struggle, Von is International Co-coordinator of the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, a Greengrants grantee. […]
Grantee Javier Villavicencio was presented with the Condé Nast Traveler Environmental Award for his work to protect the land and wildlife of the Baja California peninsula.
The Machiguenga people of Peru share the Urubamba River basin with the Nahua, Yine, Kugapakori, and other indigenous peoples. They also now share their lands with a consortium of companies that have arrived to extract natural gas and build the Camisea Pipeline, which will carry natural gas across some of the most remote, sensitive, and biologically rich lands in Peru.
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