Volunteers in Tbilisi are hand-building low-cost sensors to fill the gaps in Georgia's threadbare state air-monitoring network, one rooftop at a time.
Georgia
Asia · Western Asia
4 projects · 4 organizations
Latest from Georgia
Clean Air
100stationsCitizen air-quality monitoring stations
11citiesCities covered by the AirGE network
Biological Farming Association Elkana
Food & FarmingElkana: Reviving the Caucasus's Lost Wheat
Georgian farmers rebuilt a organic-farming union from 9 founding members into a nationwide network that is bringing indigenous Caucasus wheat varieties, wiped out under Soviet collectivization, back into highland fields.
2,000farmersFarmers, groups and enterprises supported nationwide
9farmersFounding farmer members in 1994
CENN (Caucasus Environmental NGO Network)
ForestsRestoring Georgia's Forests Through Community Governance
A Tbilisi-based NGO wrote Georgia's first National Forest Policy and now helps mountain villages manage their forests sustainably instead of stripping them for firewood.
2,000peopleDirect beneficiaries reached under Sustainable Forest Governance program
11villagesVillages connected to gas supply to reduce deforestation pressure (Tsalka)
NACRES – Centre for Biodiversity Conservation & Research
WildlifeTracking the Caucasian Leopard's Return to Georgia
Georgia's oldest biodiversity NGO runs camera traps across the Caucasus mountains that caught the country's first confirmed leopard sighting in over a decade, and works with herders to keep predators and livestock apart.
70projectsConservation projects implemented since founding
36yearsYears operating in Georgia and the South Caucasus







