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A win-win for baby elephants and Samburu women in Kenya

Reteti Elephant Sanctuary is the first community-owned and -run elephant orphanage in Africa. Reteti was established with the local indigenous Samburu community in Northern Kenya to rescue, rehabilitate and rewild orphaned and abandoned elephant calves.

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The Case of the Missing Trees

Jo Caraballo, Planet Women’s Speak for the Future Fellow, traces how early experiences with environmental racism led her here.

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Planting Seeds of a Better Future in Rwanda

Meet the amazing women of the Kula Fellowship Program who are planting trees, learning to grow their businesses and creating a brighter future for their children — and yours.

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Leaders We Admire: Simone Lightfoot

Simone Lightfoot, Associate Vice President of Environmental Justice and Climate Justice at the National Wildlife Federation, gets to the heart of environmental justice, explains how her team is working to connect Black students to green careers and shares her secret recipe to success as a Black woman and cancer survivor.

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How to Support Colombians Protesting for Human Rights

Today marks exactly one month of continuous protests in Colombia where the people have taken to the streets to call for an end to human rights violations and corruption in the government. Read this first-hand account from a friend on the ground.

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Earth Day: Finding Solutions where People and Planet Intersect

We cannot work to solve pressing environmental issues — like climate warming, the loss of soil fertility, plastics pollution of our oceans, or the contamination of rivers and streams — without addressing the ways that patriarchy, colonialism and capitalism have shaped our relationships to one another and to the earth’s resources.

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