VENTURA,
Calif., April 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- This week,
the Home Planet Fund launches. It is a new independent
nonprofit that supports local and Indigenous communities who work
in concert with nature to stop climate breakdown.
In 2021, outdoor apparel company Patagonia committed
$20 million in seed funding to help
launch the Home Planet Fund. This new, independent nonprofit will
operate as a 501(c)(3) that can receive contributions from other
donors, large and small.
Home Planet Fund will also let the communities it invests in
make their own decisions
"We trust Indigenous Peoples," said Dilafruz Khonikboyeva,
executive director of the Home Planet Fund. "Indigenous Peoples and
tribal communities have been doing this work for centuries, but
they're not being supported well enough. The Home Planet Fund will
vet the communities we invest in and then we will get out of the
way, so they can decide how to spend the investment best. No long
grant applications. No need to gather data to relentlessly track
progress. No strings attached. They already know what works, and
they know their communities. We trust them."
Radical trust in its partners will be matched with a willingness
to take risks. Home Planet Fund will work in fragile and rural
places others can't or won't.
Why go this route? Because Indigenous Peoples manage more than
24% of the world's land, representing 40% of the intact landscapes
left on the planet—and a staggering 80% of the world's
biodiversity. These communities feel the impacts of the climate
crisis firsthand, while contributing practically nothing to it—and
they're pursuing brilliantly simple solutions that can help
mitigate it.
Home Planet Fund is collaborating with Indigenous-led NGOs
on four continents to support priorities determined by the
communities themselves:
Asia: Tajikistan
Africa: Kenya + Tanzania + Uganda
Oceania: Pacific Islands
North America: Alaska, USA
Funds will be used to expand the traditional practices of Maasai
pastoralists in Kenya and
Tanzania, promote the wisdom of
Pacific Islanders in Fiji and
Vanuatu, support indigenous
farming practices in Tajikistan,
and so much more.
The goal is not only to support these critical efforts, but to
spread the knowledge of Indigenous People all over the globe.
Although many of their techniques are ancient, they are not
unsophisticated: Indigenous practices reflect a deep understanding
of the natural world, honed over generations.
Learn more at www.homeplanetfund.org
About Home Planet Fund
Home Planet Fund is a global initiative addressing the climate
crisis in Indigenous communities that are typically overlooked—and
we're doing it at a scale never seen before. We're advancing proven
nature-based solutions along with trusted partners across the
globe.
We encourage people to visit our website, follow our
social-media channels (below), donate to the cause, and spread the
stories of the people whose practices, which have been proven for
millennia, have always been the only ones that can now heal the
Earth.
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