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 […]
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 […]
By Kristall Laursen, Global Giving Network Manager I am from a small town in Iowa. I wasn’t born there, and I don’t live there now—but my tiny town of 700 people will always play a big role in influencing the person I am today. I moved away for the same reasons so many people leave […]
Here at Global Greengrants Fund we’re thrilled to welcome three new advisors to the Next Generation Climate Board and to the Greengrants family. The Next Generation Climate Board makes grants to youth-led initiatives on the front lines of climate change. Six board members, all in their 20s, put grant dollars into the hands of youth-related […]
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 […]
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