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RAN supported the community of Grassy Narrows in Ontario, Canada with a $3,000 grant facilitated through our role as an advisor to Global Greengrants Fund for 2 public events in Toronto on the 40th anniversary of when the community was poisoned by mercury from an upstream pulp mill (which continues to make people sick today). [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 29, 2010
Over the past 12 years, RAN has supported through our Protect-an-Acre small grants both Defense and Ecological Conservation of Intag (DECOIN) and Community Defense Council in the Intag region in the western Andes of Ecuador, a cloud forest ecosystem that is a globally significant biological hot spot. For 2 decades now, communities there have successfully [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 12, 2010
The below 8 grants distributed over the last few months through RAN’s Protect-an-Acre program and through our role as an advisor to Global Greengrant Fund support frontline community efforts to defend their land and rights in forest regions in Africa, South America and Canada and at the climate negotiations in Copenhagen. Protect-an-Acre La Fundacion de [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 12, 2010
In December 2008, RAN supported Black Mesa Water Coalition, a youth-led inter-tribal organization, with an emergency $5,000 grant through our role as an advisor to Global Greengrants Fund to support a mobilization to fight Peabody Coal Company’s Life of Mine permit for operations on Black Mesa, AZ. As this report back from a previous Understory [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 21, 2009
Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation, located in the Boreal Forest of Ontario, Canada – 200 km from the nearest road – just won its fight to say “no” to mining exploration company Plantinex. RAN has supported KI with grants through our Protect-an-Acre program and through our role as an advisor to the Global Greengrants Fund. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 12, 2009
RAN believes that indigenous peoples are the best stewards of rainforests. Supporting this belief, a new study by researchers at U of Illinois and U of Michigan has added to the growing body of evidence that indigenous peoples are better protectors of their forests than governments or industry. In a review of 80 forests in [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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...Friday, 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...Wednesday, 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...Friday, 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 [...]
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