South America

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All Protect-An-Acre Grants

Interethnic Development Association of the Peruvian Rainforest (AIDESEP)
2007
South America
$1,500 in support for an ongoing legal effort to challenge the development of two massive oil projects : Barrett's Block 67 and Repsol's Block 39 : which threaten one of the most pristine and remote regions left in the Amazon.
Center for Environmental Law and Community Rights
2007
Asia
$4,740 in support of CELCOR’s legal case against Cargill Temesek Holdings to stop a proposed palm oil mill in PNG from being pushed through without the consent of landowners.
Papua New Guinea Eco-Forestry Forum
2006
Asia
$5,000 to support PNG EFF’s efforts to challenge recent logging permits in order to save 920,000 hectares of pristine tropical rainforest from large-scale commercial logging and to establish a legal precedent to ensure all laws governing the management of forestry resources are adhered to.
Grassy Narrows Women's Drum Group
2006
North America
$2,170 to support a three day gathering of youth from Grassy Narrows (who were the catalysts and initiators of the community's now 4-year blockade) and other First Nations communities, including workshops on traditional skills and leadership building, sweat lodges and traditional feasts and discussions led by Indigenous leaders on tribal and treaty history and Indigenous land rights.
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Interethnic Development Association of the Peruvian Rainforest (AIDESEP)
2006
South America
$3,000 in support for the opening of Escuela Senen Soi, a training program by and for Indigenous leaders of the Peruvian Amazon to build skills related to the defense of the human rights and the environment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQIWb_CpIG8