A vibrant, painted mural in central Montevideo, Uruguay, is attracting attention from the public and media alike, about the devastation from human activities on the oceans – from overfishing and… Read More

Last month international solidarity from Honduras, Romania and Galicia flowed to community organisations resisting  a planned gold mine in Northern Ireland’s Sperrin Mountains. Story originally published by London Mining Network. … Read More

Gaia’s Hannibal Rhoades and Benjamin Hitchcock Auciello meet the activist, ethnobotanist and business leader strengthening life-sustaining alternatives to destructive, conflict-ridden mining in Colombia. Originally published in Red Pepper Magazine. On the 26th March… Read More

The small town of Piedras became the first community in Colombia to hold a public referendum on the fate of a mining project – and later banned what would have been the… Read More

A year ago this rural community used direct democracy to stop what would have been the world’s largest gold mine. Their example has inspired 50 Colombian communities to challenge corporate… Read More

Nestled in Galicia’s fertile hills, the commons community of Froxán is engaged in a struggle to protect its territory and history from Spanish miner Sacyr’s plans to re-open the San Finx… Read More

On 26th March Gaia and a host of collaborators will welcome visitors from Colombia to London for an event celebrating the town of Cajamarca’s successful campaign to protect land, water… Read More

Unique climate change work bringing together traditional knowledge and science to restore the Näätämö River watershed in northern Finland has received significant new support from the Kone Foundation. Kone has provided… Read More

The Gaia Foundation is delighted to announce a new partnership with the Snowchange Cooperative. Based in Finland, Snowchange is run by Finns devoted to the advancement of their traditions and… Read More

London- In the last week of November, Earth Defenders from Uganda, Philippines and Colombia joined UK allies*, including Gaia, to challenge London’s annual Mines and Money Conference. Advertising itself as… Read More