Each month, diverse leaders who are protecting forest, water and biodiversity health across Africa will gather for collective learning and support.

My mission as Planet Women’s first Youth Ambassador and Reporter is to get my voice into the world and share my views on the environment, women empowerment, and diversity. I hope my writing will spread awareness of these issues, inspire other teens to care, and offer solutions and suggestions as to how they can get involved.

New 5-video series offers insights to young people, especially women, who are interested in a career in conservation.

Partnering with Cultural Survival in the Andes-Amazon Basin, our donors funded four fellowships for Indigenous youth in Brazil, as well as trainings for 14 Indigenous environmental defenders from Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Brazil.

In the Colorado River Basin, Planet Women is bringing together women across generations, from Indigenous and other local communities, to collaborate on solutions to protect the river and the people and biodiversity that depend on it.

Planet Women launched the Center for Gender, Equity and the Environment (CGEE) in Africa. The goal of the CGEE is to provide grassroots environmental groups with resources and technical support to advance their missions.

Here are the books, songs, podcasts, and films that inspired Planet Women’s staff this year!

Together, we are creating the future we want to see. Check out the 2022 Annual Report to see how you are sustaining and multiplying women’s leadership in the field and beyond.

Meet Pilot Betty Uhrig, a volunteer with The Colorado River Overflight Project, and a pioneer and record setter in her own right.