2017 has been a challenging year for the environment and human rights. Complete with a seemingly unending series of natural disasters, and a record number of murders of environmental defenders, it’s safe to say that the year has not been without obstacle. Worldwide the urgency of the climate crisis became more apparent as international efforts […]
Off the beaten path, but just three hours from Santiago, lies the region of Maule, Chile – a place of incomparable natural beauty. Near the town of Putú, there are breathtaking sand dunes and wetlands, natural spaces that often end up on the itineraries of visiting tourists. But what you don’t find in the visitors […]
By Alex Grossman, Director of Communications It’s well known that honoring the rights of indigenous people is vital to the preservation of forests worldwide. Leng Ouch, an environmental defender, human rights lawyer, and Goldman Environmental Prize winner has taken this role to an extreme. Leng has spent the past 20 years exposing corruption and greed […]
By Alex Grossman, Director of Communications A group of camel herders in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia are celebrating a historic victory. After four years of intense negotiations, the local herder organizations took on a major mining company and won. In this David vs. Goliath story, the locals won a landmark agreement with the operators […]
In a crushing blow to years of indigenous opposition efforts, the Bolivian government has decided to move ahead with plans to build a highway directly through the Isiboro Sécure National Park and indigenous territory, known as TIPNIS. The park, rich in biodiversity and home to thousands of indigenous peoples, will lose protected status and essentially […]
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