Asia · South-Eastern Asia
5 projects · 5 organizations
A Karen (Pga k'nyau) indigenous community association defending traditional rotational farming and customary forest stewardship in northern Thailand.
Lek Chailert's Chiang Mai sanctuary network giving over 100 rescued elephants — freed from logging, riding, and circus work — a peaceful natural home.
A citizen network of scientists and activists drafted Thailand's own Clean Air Act, and in 2025 got it through parliament's lower house without a single vote against.
Two Thai sisters turned a high-school coral-planting project into the country's first youth-led coral restoration nonprofit, taking volunteers underwater to grow reefs from Phuket to Koh Tao.
A lead processing plant flushed its waste into the creek a Karen village drank from, and every one of the village's 221 residents was poisoned. Winning took nineteen years.