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Latest from Georgia

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.

100stationsCitizen air-quality monitoring stations
11citiesCities covered by the AirGE network
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Biological Farming Association Elkana

Elkana: Reviving the Caucasus's Lost Wheat

Food & Farming

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
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CENN (Caucasus Environmental NGO Network)

Restoring Georgia's Forests Through Community Governance

Forests

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)
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NACRES – Centre for Biodiversity Conservation & Research

Tracking the Caucasian Leopard's Return to Georgia

Wildlife

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
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