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Tracy Solum - who has written 17 posts on Rainforest Action Network Blog.
Our latest series of a dozen Protect-an-Acre grants over the last few months supported frontline community efforts to defend their land in forests from the Amazon and Cerrado in South America to the Canadian Boreal to the largest rainforest area remaining in the Asia-Pacific region in Papua New Guinea. Amazon Rainforest & Brazilian Cerrado Mobilization [...]
Continue reading...By Tracy Solum, March 20 2009
In 2001, through our role as an advisor to Global Greengrants Fund, RAN helped make a $5,000 grant to Indigenous Council of Roraima to support an international campaign to demarcate the Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous reserve in the northern Brazilian Amazon. Today we are celebrating a landmark victory for Indigenous peoples’ rights in Brazil. [...]
Continue reading...By Tracy Solum, February 18 2009
Through our relationship with Global Greengrants Fund, we’ve helped recently to make a dozen grants to projects spanning 3 continents. These communities are on the frontlines of efforts around the world by people to maintain control over their own resources and protect the natural systems that sustain their way of life. South America Xavante Wara [...]
Continue reading...By Tracy Solum, October 10 2008
Since 1993, RAN has distributed over $850,000 in small grants to traditionally under-funded organizations and communities in forest regions through our Protect-an-Acre program. Our grants (generally $5,000 or less) support organizations and communities that are working to regain control of and sustainably manage their traditional territories through land title initiatives, community education, development of sustainable [...]
Continue reading...By Tracy Solum, October 27 2006
On October 17th, police in ski masks carrying automatic weapons raided the home of Carlos Zorrilla, the Executive Director of Defense and Ecological Conservation of Intag (DECOIN), a grassroots group comprised of farmers, peasants and priests that he co-founded in Intag of Northwest Ecuador in 1995. Mr. Zorrilla was able to get out of his [...]
Continue reading...By Tracy Solum, October 27 2006
Oil was discovered in the 1970s in a remote region of the northern Peruvian Amazon that the Achuar have inhabited for thousands of years. Over the past 30 years, the community’s consent was neither sought nor gained as U.S.-based Occidental Petroleum (OXY) drilled over 150 wells and built more than 300 miles of roads and [...]
Continue reading...By Tracy Solum, July 13 2005
Once again the Canadian editions of Harry Potter have cast a magic spell for forests around the world by being printed on Ancient Forest Friendly paper. The Canadian edition of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is printed on 100% post-consumer recycled, processed chlorine free paper. The Canadian and German editions are the only versions of Harry Potter to be printed on Ancient Forest Friendly paper internationally – other countries have started to improve their papers also – including the UK, Italy and Israel.
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By Tracy Solum, July 1 2009
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