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All Protect-An-Acre Grants

Mother Earth Helpers (Grassy Narrows First Nation)
2007
North America
$540 in support for Mother Earth Helpers patrol of Grassy Narrows' Traditional Sacred Grounds and the establishment of three campsites that would block secondary roads where logging is happening.
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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.
Associação Floresta Protegida
2007
South America
$3,000 in support for the participation of Kayapo community members at the meeting/protest in Altamira, Brazil against the Belo Monte Dam planned for the Xingu River, which would be the world's 3rd largest. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlEQgtNkFTs
Save America's Forests (on behalf of the Waorani)
2007
South America
$2,500 to support Save America’s Forests and Land is Life work with the Waorani (formerly spelled Huaorani) to curb illegal logging by signing 6 month contracts with leaders to not allow logging on their territory in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon as a temporary measure while the government is working with community leaders to develop a permanent long-term agreement that will take over these payments as part of the plan.
Protest against open-pit uranium mine on traditional Ardoch Algonquin land
Ardoch Algonquin First Nation
2007
North America
$5,000 to support the efforts of Ardoch Algonquin First Nation, an Aninshinaabe community of about 700 in southeast Ontario, that has established a blockade to prevent Frontenac from developing an open-pit uranium mine on their traditional land.