News & Resources: ‘Mangroves’
Women in India: How grassroots groups are strengthening food security
Mar 7, 2013
This is the first in a four-part series on women’s role in agriculture in India. Rucha Chitnis is the South Asia Program Director of Women’s Earth Alliance and an advisor to Global Greengrants Fund. She recommends grants in Jharkhand and West Bengal.
Read moreLocal Fishing Community Protects Endangered Mangroves
Sep 28, 2011
Shrimp farms can have devastating impacts on biodiversity and artisanal fisheries. A Brazilian organization protected their coast from this threat, along with the loss of livelihoods and biodiversity that it would have caused.
Read moreIn the Pacific: Picking up the Pieces after Devastating Tsunami
Aug 25, 2011
Global Greengrants grantee Aleipata Marine Protected Area Society is working with local communities in cleanup efforts after the Samoa tsunami of 2009.
Read moreWoodrow Wilson Center’s China Environment Series 10
Aug 27, 2009
Several Greengrants grantees contributed to, or are featured in, the Woodrow Wilson Center’s China Environment Series 10.
Read moreSuccess in Protecting Bahamian Coast!
Feb 25, 2009
After years of work by environmental groups, the Bahamian government has finally established a Marine Protected Area off of North Bimini Island. This designation will mean strict new environmental standards, which will help protect delicate ecosystems.
Read moreGrantees Win Conde Nast Environmental Prize
Jan 29, 2009
For nearly two decades, Conde Nast Traveler has been honoring environmental visionaries around the world who have found innovative solutions to seemingly intractable problems. In 2008, both the winner and a runner-up of this prestigious award were grantees.
Read moreDefense of the Mangroves: A Campaign against a Large-Scale Shrimp Farm in Brazil
Jun 2, 2006
Shrimp is no longer the luxury food that it once was: in 2001 it surpassed canned tuna as the number one seafood consumed in the United States. From Thailand to Ecuador, a number of developing nations have created large-scale shrimp… Read more
India: COPDANET Helps to Restore Tsunami-Damaged Mangroves in the Andaman Islands
Sep 21, 2005
by Michael Kramer-Duffield
The tsunami of December 2004 devastated many coastal areas of South and Southeast Asia. Some of the hardest-hit areas were those in which coastal mangroves had been severely depleted due to overdevelopment and poor resource management, among… Read more
Indonesia: Women’s Group Helping to Restore Mangroves in Sulawesi
Feb 15, 2005
by Jessica Sherman, Greengrants Intern
Women in an Indonesian coastal community are learning how to protect mangroves, restore local fisheries and find economic alternatives to ecosystem destruction. Creative approaches such as this promise to help halt cycles of poverty and… Read more