Across the sweeping grasslands of East Africa, pastoralist communities like the Maasai, Samburu, and Karamojong have practiced pastoralism for millennia—creating biodiversity hotspots and sequestering carbon through their nature-based way of life.

In Tajikistan’s Pamir Mountains—part of the “Third Pole,” the world’s largest glacier system outside the Arctic and Antarctic—we are supporting local communities in their planting of traditional crops, preserving and sharing ancient seeds, strengthening their biodiversity and cultural heritage, and documenting the Indigenous knowledge. All of this is happening across ten elevation levels to ensure localization, which has an outsized mitigation impact on the global environmental crisis.

Home Planet Fund partners with Shifting the Power, the only women-led alliance focusing on strengthening the collective power, influence, and leadership of diverse Pacific women in responding to disasters and the environmental crisis. Successful and ongoing projects across this region include mangrove planting, coral rehabilitation, food and water security, greenhouse gardening, and fishing

Destruction caused by Russian fur traders, then US colonialism, is now being healed by local tribes, fisher persons, business owners, mayors and others who have found solutions which engage their communities, honor Indigenous values, and focus on local economic development.

You can find our full 2024 Annual Report below.

We hope you will continue down this path with us, facing the same direction, and walking together with arms linked – in determination, and in hope.

Dilafruz Khonikboyeva