Island Reach is a practical and engaged response to challenges communities face as a result of climate change and the intensifying loss of biological and cultural diversity. IR serves as a force multiplier for our local partners, providing resources and access, facilitating peer-to-peer exchanges, dialoguing about methods and tools, and documenting stories, all intended to strengthen locally-led actions and support self-determination.  

Island Reach is focused on three main targets:

1. Engaging with our partners in Vanuatu to support grassroots initiatives, helping integrate traditional ecological knowledge with scientific knowledge in order to address today's unprecedented challenges.
2. Through the use of video, sharing stories regionally and internationally which aim to a) inspire action and innovation; b) build greater recognition and reciprocity; and c) raise new questions, all in a manner which both celebrates difference and informs specific grassroots actions.
3. Developing workshops for activists and advocates that catalyze debate and support reflection in order to contribute to grassroots movements for climate justice and environmental and cultural protections.

Check out our 2018 Annual Report to learn more.     

Our Inspiration is...

the enormous diversity of life on Earth as expressed in the variety of ecosystems and plant and animal species found in nature, as well the incredible range of cultures and languages in human societies, bound all together in a complex web of life. Framed as biocultural diversity, these dynamic relationships are both the source and the objective of a robust and resilient world.

Island Reach Actions

        Engaging Youth

        Supporting women rising

       Improving food sovereignty

Partnering with culture brokers

        Gardening reefs

   Facilitating peer-to-peer exchange

     Dialoguing about climate change

                    Documenting stories