FUNDING DAUGHTERS’ PROJECTS AROUND THE WORLD

International Rivers, in partnership with Women's Earth Alliance, have launched the Women and Rivers Accelerator to address gender equity and empower local women to conserve the vulnerable rivers of India, Nepal, and Bangladesh.

This project's primary objectives include empowering at least ten local women as rangers, securing 20,000 acres for black rhino conservation by the end of 2024, and protecting a minimum of 25 rhinos in the sanctuary by 2030.

This project aims to increase forest cover for biodiversity to thrive and provide local communities with nutritious food and livelihoods through tree planting.

Intercultural education is a key strategy to provide Waorani youth, the future guardians of 230,000 hectares of rainforest, with the knowledge and cultural values critical for the long-term protection of Waorani forests.

This project will demonstrate that another economic system based on a circular economy is viable and mutually beneficial in the agriculture and hospitality sectors with all the economic partners and stakeholders.

Under the direction of two women Malagasy conservation biologists, this project will restore 60 hectares of baobab forest.

This project will support Mothers of the Mangrove, empowering 36 women leaders in the Amazon coastal zone to protect their homeland.

The first Midwest facility meeting the Living Building Challenge, producing our own food, achieving energy and water net-positivity, and establishing precedent for educational, environmental, and wellness standards.

This project will build 10 hydroponics greenhouses with all supporting infrastructure in curated spaces within Kibera.

This project aims to increase productivity and food security in Senegal’s ecologically fragile, risk-prone Kaffrine region by empowering women smallholder farmers.

Led and operated by Indigenous women, support for this project will help restore the Indigenous Kyrgyz horse population to help revive livelihoods and regenerate the natural landscape of Central Asia.

This project will train Mapuche-Pehuenche women and youth in whitewater rafting skills and create a platform where their ancestral wisdom about the environment can be shared.

Support for this project will help harness the emerging youth climate movement to effectively protect the Arctic.

Support for this project will help the women of Amrita Bhoomi travel throughout South Asia, bringing their regenerative growing practices to other women farmers.

Support for this project will combine technology with traditional science and wisdom as Inuit communities monitor wildlife and climate observations with drones and interweave their ancestral ways of life, culture, and stories into conservation.

This project will train women to swim and dive and certify them as swimming instructors, lifeguards, and scuba divers.

This project will restore five hectares of the mangrove ecosystem used as a nursery by the scalloped hammerhead shark.

Support for this project will help expand the sea turtle rehabilitation capacity at the National Marine Life Center, led by conservationist Connie Merigo.

This project will support training the newest batch of Ewaso Lions’ Warrior Watch. Made up of the local Indigenous Samburu, the warriors will learn to respond to conflicts, rescue livestock, and monitor lions and their prides.

Support for this project will help Filha do Sol create a women-led coalition to regenerate the mangroves in the region and empower them to become climate justice advocates.

This project from the Cheetah Conservation Fund will train local women on predator-friendly herd management techniques, predator identification, and wildlife behavior patterns.

Support for this project will revive, enhance, and maintain 751 acres of the Colorado River Delta.

This project will bring together women traditional weavers, researchers, designers, textile experts, scientists, anthropologists, and businesswomen to create sustainable dyeing processes that Ain Leuh Women's Cooperative can use.

This project will expand the local research station and restore 5,800 hectares of the Amazon, protecting biodiversity along the Guaviare River.

This project will create the “Climate Lab,” a K-12 educational program in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Students will learn about climate change, examine the impacts and environmental challenges their communities face, and develop solutions to those issues.

This project will provide proper fishery equipment and train women in management, financial literacy, and product diversification. It will connect them to markets outside the region and help them to build business networks.

This project empowers local women to develop regenerative farming skills that will help revitalize their lands and improve their livelihoods.

Support for this project will help Project Coyote focus on immediate wolf protection efforts in strategic regions where they are most threatened by proposed trophy hunting and political ill will.

This project will train and certify at least 40 empirical divers to remove ghost nets and fishing lines from the water and dispose of them properly. This will reduce the risk of entangled animals and mortality and clean the waters of the Chocó Department.

This project will increase the community-managed mangrove restoration project from four to 29 hectares.

Funding for this project will promote the protection and restoration of Kilum-Ijim forest biodiversity and agroforestry practices that conserve the soil and increase food production around Kilum-Ijim forest peripheries to adapt to climate change.

The project will focus on recruiting women who identify as socially disadvantaged per the USDA’s definition and veteran farmers and new and beginning farmers. Women technical resource providers will be recruited to train them on how to increase leadership around food and agricultural systems resilience.

This project will establish La Casa de las Mujeres Amazónicas en Ecuador - not just a place for Indigenous women to call home but land titled in women’s names, with women in decision-making roles.

The main objectives of the Community Baboon Sanctuary project are to protect the interconnected Maya Forest Corridor, implement climate-resilient practices amongst 300 farmers, and engage the seven communities to conserve natural resources.

This project aims to add value to Indigenous and traditional rice varieties and agricultural practices that preserve biodiversity and soil fertility and play an important social, cultural, and economic role.

The project will pilot a delivery system to collect food from producers and distribute it to strategic points to reach vulnerable groups, allowing them to access high-quality local food at subsidized rates.

Based at the White Earth Reservation, this project seeks to revive the region’s Fiber Hemp economy, providing Native Americans with sustainable economic opportunities, while healing the Earth. Leaders hope it will become a model for the nation.

This project will establish a region for the production of medicinal and aromatic plants in the municipality of Querétaro through agro-ecological practices, which include the traditional knowledge of local communities with restoration and productive approach.

This project will preserve the Navajo weaving arts and land-based culture by supporting these critical traditional flocks and through community donations of yarn and fiber.

This project will plant approximately 80,000 native trees, establish eight community gardens, establish eight tree nurseries, and reduce the impacts of climate change while it provides habitat for wildlife.

For generations, women in the Amazon have protected their land. Now they’re joining together to combat one of the greatest threats ever.

Throughout this project, Digital Democracy will create a peer-supported network for 12 Indigenous Land Defenders from at least six different communities or Indigenous Nations

Support for the Fossey Fund’s work will focus on protecting individual gorillas and their families 365 days a year and conducting the scientific research needed to develop effective conservation strategies.

The goal of this project is to achieve and document success in the conversion of a plot of 156 acres of land in California’s Central Valley in cotton systems to regenerative agriculture practices that build soil health, increase biodiversity, protect water resources, and sequester carbon. These are crop production systems that typically include rotations of tomatoes, wheat, alfalfa, and other food crops.

Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP) has empowered 150,000 women decision-makers in drought-prone Maharashtra, to improve their health and economic well-being with the women-led, climate-resilient farming model.

From Boston to Berkeley, students are “rewilding” their campuses and eliminating pesticides. Now they want to expand to every campus in the United States.

Through this land acquisition project, the Southern Plains Land will expand the Heartland Ranch Nature Preserve in Bent County in Southeastern Colorado from 24,774 acres to 42,661 acres.

This project is building a youth tree-growing campaign to train forest-dwelling communities in agroforestry to restore their livelihoods and protect forests, and amplifying communities' critical Indigenous knowledge in forest protection.

The Laguna San Ignacio Mangrove Restoration Project is currently underway and funding will aid in the planting of up to 20,000 mangrove trees to protect the Laguna San Ignacio from climate change and sea-level rise.

This project will support Dr. Alice Karanja's food tree portfolios to help smallholder families in Zambia have year-round access to nutritious foods, diversify their incomes, and boost their resilience to increased prices and climate change.

Wild Earth Allies is partnering with Imbereheza Gahunga to build household rainwater harvest tanks in the foothills of Volcanoes National Park, delivering value for women, their families, and wildlife. The project has created 286 water tanks, providing daily water to 2,101 people.

The Kenya Women and Forests project in Western Kenya is advancing the restoration and protection of the Kakamega Tropical Rainforest by catalyzing women’s leadership in community forest management.

This project will help the Indigenous women of the Mississippi River Delta restore local ecology, enhance climate resilience in the face of increasing stressors, improve local population health and provide income and greater food security in this region.

Meaning ‘The Brave Ones’ in the local Shona dialect, Akashinga is an innovative approach to preserving nature, channeling large portions of conservation budgets into rural community development through the predominant employment and empowerment of women as rangers and scouts

This project aims to reforest 1,209 square kilometers in south Kivu Province while elevating women’s leadership, focusing on environmental education concerning the protection of old-growth forests and helping the renewal of traditional ecological knowledge.