#seeds

🇦🇹 Austria · GLOBAL 2000 (Friends of the Earth Austria)

Since six activists founded it in 1982, GLOBAL 2000 has turned public petitions into Austrian law, from a landmark 1997 anti-GMO referendum to the country's 2011 climate protection act.

🇿🇦 South Africa · Grootbos Foundation

Grootbos leads a roughly 50-landowner conservancy protecting over 1,500 fynbos species in the Cape Floral Kingdom while training unemployed young people for green jobs.

🇬🇭 Ghana · Ghana Wildlife Society

Ghana's leading wildlife NGO is pulling a critically endangered tree back from the brink while training communities to steward forests and birds.

🇹🇴 Tonga · MORDI Tonga Trust

In Tonga's villages, MORDI Tonga turns community-written development plans into seed banks, cyclone-ready infrastructure, and new income for rural families.

🇺🇸 United States · Native Seeds/SEARCH

Native Seeds/SEARCH conserves and freely shares thousands of arid-adapted heirloom seed varieties tied to Indigenous farming traditions of the American Southwest.

🇬🇳 Guinea · Guinée Écologie

Guinea's oldest environmental NGO is running village nurseries to regrow the degraded classified forest of Mont Béro, tree by native tree.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Project Seagrass

The world's leading seagrass conservation charity, replanting millions of seeds to bring the UK's lost underwater meadows back to life.

🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · CAMP Alatoo

A Kyrgyz NGO helps woodland communities in southern Kyrgyzstan sustainably manage the planet's largest naturally growing walnut forest instead of losing it to overgrazing and degradation.

🇳🇪 Niger · Sahara Sahel Foods

Sahara Sahel Foods pays rural Nigerien women to harvest native trees and shrubs, turning stigmatized wild foods into a growing regional market.