The Keepers of the Earth Fund (KOEF) is proud to announce our 2025 partnerships with Indigenous communities. At Cultural Survival, we value cultivating long-term relationships with our partners. 

By Lucas Kasosi (Maasai, CS Intern)

By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Koĩts-Sunuwar, CS Staff)

The Keepers of the Earth Fund (KOEF) is proud to announce our 2025 partnerships with Indigenous communities. At Cultural Survival, we value cultivating long-term relationships with our partners. 

The fight against climate change critically depends on the involvement of young women, who are among the most vulnerable to its impacts. Women and girls face disproportionate impacts from climate change, largely because they make up the majority of the world's poor and rely heavily on local natural resources for their livelihoods. In developing countries, they are responsible for up to 80% of food production.

By Diana Ramírez León (Hñähñu)

Axä Jua, ma tuhu Diana Ramírez León, un di bi dui ha hñahñu hai, dra munts’a  häi  ne di hñä, ma gütañ’u ra tuhu b’üi ri hnini ne di öde ha ra n’a nthebe hñu ma de fm  Ximhai ne ra hñahñu hai ne ra Batha ra Bothahi, Hidalgo México.

Why are Indigenous Peoples occupying Fazenda Cristal?

To protect their last water sources from lithium mining, after companies and governments had ignored their pleas for years.

Water = Life, Lithium = Destruction

Mining in the Jequitinhonha Valley dries up rivers and poisons the land, violating the rights of the Pankararu and Pataxó Peoples, whose survival depends on these waters.

They stand on the frontlines!