News & Press

3rd April 2020 Gaia in the press

The Ecologist: The need for seed in times of crisis

In a new article for The Ecologist, Gaia’s Seed Sovereignty Coordinator, Sinead Fortune, explores how this time of crisis is creating fertile ground to plant the seeds of a more… Read More

31st March 2020 News

News flash: Gaia and allies launch new film ‘Custodians of Life’

Dear Friends, In these troubled times we are delighted to bring you a story of hope, courage and restoration from our global network. Released today, our new film, Custodians of Life- reviving culture and… Read More

31st March 2020 News

Media Release: New film explores cultural and ecological revival in Uganda’s Great Lakes region

31st March 2020. Kampala | London – In the midst of climate emergency and a global coronavirus pandemic caused by ecological destruction, a Ugandan Indigenous community is demonstrating the vital… Read More

24th March 2020 News

How to share… Custodians of Life

This document provides guidance and suggested social media posts for those wishing to share the new film from The Gaia Foundation and partners – Custodians of Life: Reviving Culture and… Read More

19th March 2020 News

Coronavirus, Rewilding and Oat Quest – Gaia’s Equinox Newsletter

Dear Friends, Spring is here in the Northern Hemisphere. But while the blossom and leaves are emerging, many of us are staying in to try and halt the global spread… Read More

19th March 2020 News

Roque Roldán: tribute to a quiet champion of Indigenous rights

The story of Colombian lawyer Roque Roldán is one of remarkable commitment to territories and areas conserved by indigenous peoples and local communities (or ‘territories of life’). In his shy… Read More

18th March 2020 News

Navigating coronavirus: plant seeds, buy local, care for community

Any crisis brings out the best and the worst in humanity. Like many of you, we in the Gaia Team are talking about, thinking about and taking action in response… Read More

1st March 2020 News

Snowchange: Training the next generation of ice fishermen

In a new interactive story, Gaia’s Finnish partner organisation the Snowchange Cooperative share their efforts to train young people in Finland’s ancient ice-fishing traditions, as the impacts of climate change… Read More

28th February 2020 Gaia in the press

BBC takes up our ‘Oat Quest’

Gaia’s Wales Seed Sovereignty Coordinator, Katie Hastings, and growers across Wales are on a quest to find small-scale, low-tech ways of processing the rare welsh oat varieties being revived by… Read More

19th February 2020 Gaia in the press

PRESS RELEASE: New report names top British companies responsible for toxic mining legacies

Mining companies are trying to reinvent themselves as the deliverers of clean, green, sustainable minerals and metals needed in the renewable transition. But a new report from London Mining Network,… Read More

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