At TWP, we’ve always believed local leaders are the best equipped to address their communities’ challenges. But in many of the regions we work, women experience those challenges in distinct ways and continue to face barriers to leading their solutions.
When the 110 families of El Asintal resettled in Guatemala, they arrived home to a near-empty plot of land, with scarce resources to rebuild.
Like many Indigenous communities in the region, these families were displaced amidst Guatemala’s violent civil war. The government’s designation of lands for resettlement in the early 2000s was an opportunity to return home, but not without significant debt and great hardship.
After years of collaboration between our Indigenous Lands Program and local collaborators, we are proud to be concluding the first phase of the County Road 39 Traditional Harvest Project in Southwest Colorado.
While we are working to continue and expand this project regionally, the first phase focused on riparian restoration and planting of native species along 3 private easements of the Mancos River.
Fencing isn’t often the first thing to come to mind when we think about conservation.
But working from the local level continues to teach us that different places need different things. Some may need connectivity, some may need protection.