The Rider of the Giant Armadillo: Traditional Knowledge Meets Conservation Science to Protect Guyana’s Iconic Wildlife
“Years ago, our grandparents still lived in the forest and carried their children to their farms every day. But one day, this family left their baby boy at home with his older brothers. They were playing and didn’t pay attention to the little boy, who followed his parents to the farm. On his way, he came across a giant armadillo, who took him to her burrow and raised him as her very own. She fed him with beetle larvae and ants, slept with him in her burrow during the day, and took him all around the forest on her back at night.” Natura...
 
From Soil to Strength: How Climate-Smart Agriculture is Empowering Persons with Disabilities
Gaynel Agustus likes to be on the ground, feeling the soil under her feet: “I ...
 
SGP launches Annual Monitoring Report 2023-2024
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP), implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), is launching its Results Report for the reporting year 2023-2024. Th...
Established in 1992, the year of the Rio Earth Summit, the GEF Small Grants Programme embodies the very essence of sustainable development by "thinking globally acting locally". By providing financial and technical support to projects that conserve and restore the environment while enhancing people's well-being and livelihoods, SGP demonstrates that community action can maintain the fine balance between human needs and environmental imperatives.
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2011-2020 has been declared by the UN General Assembly as the 'International Decade for Biodiversity'. Biodiversity provides ...
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Land degradation focal area of the GEF SGP is informed by the previous activities of the millennium ecosystems assessments an ...
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