Pages tagged with “community”

• The Goldman Environmental Prize

  In April 2013, the winners of the Goldman Prize for Environmental Excellence were announced. Awards were granted to six activists from around the world doing amazing work to protect their environment and the people that depend on it. Winners included: Jonathan Deal from South Africa, who led a successful campaign against fracking in South Africa to protect the Karoo, a…

• Réseau CREF

  We are very excited to provide details for the last of our recently funded projects. Synchronicity Earth is supporting Réseau CREF (Le Réseau pour la Conservation et la Réhabilitation des Ecosystèmes Forestiers / Network for the Conservation and Restoration of Forest Ecosystems) to develop and support community forestry initiatives in the Beni-Lubero Region, North Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo. Click…

• TFT Centre for Social Excellence

  Synchronicity Earth is funding TFT (formerly the Tropical Forest Trust) to provide core support for the Centre for Social Excellence in Cameroon. TFT addresses deforestation by working with forest companies to helps them transform themselves and the stories of their products. Whilst working with logging companies in the Congo Basin, TFT realised that whilst they were not in short supply…

• Bank Information Center

  Synchronicity Earth is supporting the Bank Information Center (BIC) to carry out a detailed case study to demonstrate gaps in current policies and protections of World Bank financed infrastructure projects, such as dams. This will contribute to BIC’s campaign to ensure strengthening of social and environmental safeguards of World Bank funded projects as the World Bank undergoes its two-year Safeguards…

• Overfishing

  Oceanic life starts with the smallest creatures. Microscopic plankton convert sunlight and atmospheric carbon dioxide into oxygen – one species of blue-green algae, Prochlorococcus, is present in such abundance that it produces one out of every five breaths we take. These are scooped up by grazers such as krill, which are then eaten by small baitfish – anchovies, herrings and…