Tag: The Pacific Islands

Promoting Climate Justice Around the World

Climate change is the biggest environmental and rights threat of our time. But solutions to climate chaos exist on the front lines of the struggle to save our planet. Global Greengrants Fund supports projects to restore forests, resist bad development, and advocate for smart climate policies. We invest in the people who have the most […]

Update from Vanuatu: Rebuilding After Cyclone Pam

On March 14, 2015, Cyclone Pam pummeled the small island nation of Vanuatu in the South Pacific. The worst cyclone on record left thousands of people without shelter, food, or drinkable water. The Red Cross estimated that at least half of the country’s population was left without housing, and the cost of a new house […]

Activism around the World: Highlights from September 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 with you. Here are three exciting projects we’ve supported recently. Colombia: […]

Protecting Mangroves: The Intersection of Land and Sea

Recently, Sri Lanka became the first nation to protect all mangroves, even going so far as to open a mangrove museum as part of a project aiming to protect 8,800 hectares of mangrove forests throughout the country and restore 3,900 hectares. Why make so much effort to protect a tree? There are over 70 species […]

3 Ways Grassroots Environmentalists Are Saving Their Oceans

Oceans are home to over half of all life on earth. Yet, as oceans are mined, oil drilled, polluted, and overfished the negative impacts to people’s livelihoods and marine ecosystems are increasing. Here are a handful of ways Global Greengrants’ grantees are working to protect oceans and conserve marine life around the world. Protecting the […]

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