Sam Eaton
‘Our wealth is the forest’: Indigenous tribes are the last best hope for the Amazon
Indigenous people are engaged in a fierce battle to defend the Amazon forest from illegal logging, and it’s working. Deforestation in indigenous territories is much lower than in other areas. But those efforts are fraught with danger.
Climate change-linked ‘everyday disasters’ are displacing the world’s poorest people
We tend to think of climate change these days in terms of big disasters like storms and droughts. But in many coastal regions, the impact is less dramatic but no less devastating. Sam Eaton reports on the slow drowning of communities in a crowded, low-lying part of India called the Sundarbans.
Tanzania is trying to turn the charcoal trade from an enemy to a friend of the forest
The illegal charcoal trade is a big contributor to deforestation in countries like Tanzania. After trying and failing once to curb the business, the country is now trying a new approach. The World’s Sam Eaton has the story.
After the floods come the human traffickers, but these girls are fighting back
India’s low-lying Sundarbans are rife with human trafficking as the effects of climate change leave families poor and vulnerable. But a new program from Save the Children India is helping kids band together to ward off traffickers, while also getting them to stay in school. Even if it means they also learn to roll cigarettes to support their families.
Zanzibar’s ‘Solar Mamas’ flip the switch on rural homes, gender roles
On the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar, hundreds of households too poor and remote to have access to the electrical grid are getting low cost solar power for the first time, from a group of local female engineers trained by and Indian NGO. It’s the first of several “solar mamas” projects planned for parts of rural Africa, and it’s turning some traditional gender roles on their head.