The Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International is a solutions-based organization established to engage women worldwide in policy advocacy, on-the-ground projects, trainings, and movement building for global climate justice.
WECAN International
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Defending the Tongass Rainforest of Alaska through Women-led Indigenous Action
This women led project is working to protect 9.2 million acres from old-growth logging and mining. Industrial logging would remove stands of ancient trees and eliminate the benefits they currently provide as a buffer against climate change.
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Propagating Native Plants and Revitalizing Ecological Practices of Indigenous Women in the Mississippi Delta
With this women led project, the Houma and intertribal women from the Bvlbancha Collective are building a network of food and medicinal gardens in order to revitalize traditional ecological practices and to provide income.
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Protecting and Restoring the Itombwe Rainforest through Community Action in the Congo
This women-led project aims to reforest 1,209 square kilometers in south Kivu Province.