Daughters for Earth

Daughters for Earth Daughters for Earth is a fund and a movement focused on supporting, celebrating, and mobilizing women to protect and restore our Earth

⚡️ Meet the SPOTTED HYENA: the large carnivore where every female outranks every male. No exceptions.🎯 She hunts. She le...
08/21/2026

⚡️ Meet the SPOTTED HYENA: the large carnivore where every female outranks every male. No exceptions.

🎯 She hunts. She leads. She decides who eats and when. Her daughters inherit her rank automatically, and her knowledge of territory, prey, and clan politics passes down through the matriline. When she dies, that’s not just a loss, it’s a structural gap the whole clan feels.

🫂 Female hyenas stay in their natal clan for life, building bonds and passing down rank, knowledge, and social standing across generations. The continuity of the clan lives in them.

Follow us for more stories about female leaders (in the wild and in our lives)💜

08/18/2026

🌎 “EARTH IS IN TROUBLE, WHAT CAN YOU DO WHEREVER YOU ARE?” Bringing people together towards a common goal: that’s the movement Sylvia Earle works to inspire.

🤝🏼 “Nobody can do all that needs to be done, but if you get enough people taking action where they have the power to do something... and it takes a little patience” - Sylvia A. Earle states.

📢 About communicating success stories and mobilizing others with hope, she stands: “Sometimes it takes people understanding that something good is happening here, and then it magnifies. In fact, communication is part of what needs to be done”.

“People don’t know why they should really care about the ocean. Until they know that the ocean is what keeps all of us alive, why would you care? It looks like a good place to throw trash”.

🌊 Sylvia believes that the biggest problem is “complacency, ignorance, a lack of understanding”. Everybody should know why protecting our oceans is important.

💜 Messages like Sylvia Earle’s scale when someone chooses to support them. That’s why at Daughters for Earth, we back her work.

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08/13/2026

🐝 Bees now have recognized rights in three regions of Peru.

Sounds wild, but for Indigenous communities in the Amazon, this isn’t new. Native stingless bees aren’t just insects. They’re living, sentient beings, deeply connected to the forest, the community, and our own survival.

🔬 Meet Dr. Rosa Vásquez Espinoza: her research found the first direct evidence linking deforestation to the decline of these bees. Together with Indigenous communities, local authorities, and legal experts, she turned that evidence into law.

⚖️ Today, 3 municipalities across Peru legally recognize bees’ right to exist, thrive, and live in a healthy environment.

Because protecting bees means protecting the forest, ancestral knowledge, and ultimately, ourselves. 🌱

💜 Daughters For Earth supports Rosa Vásquez Espinoza’s work and the work of many other women in different parts of the world. That support helps bring research like this to more people, so that it doesn’t stay locked away in maps, data, or papers and instead inspires learning and action.

🌿 WE LOST 60% OF OUR CONNECTION TO NATURE. THEY’RE BRINGING IT BACK📊 Daughters for Earth support more than 200 women-led...
08/11/2026

🌿 WE LOST 60% OF OUR CONNECTION TO NATURE. THEY’RE BRINGING IT BACK

📊 Daughters for Earth support more than 200 women-led environmental initiatives across 50 countries, women who had never met each other.

They found the same pattern repeating: in Kenya they restore mangroves, elsewhere they fight for land rights to protect pangolins. Different geographies, the same underlying logic.

🌍 A Nobel Prize-winning physicist called it “islands of coherence”: small points of order that are enough to reorder an entire system in chaos. This is one of those islands.

✍️ Original piece by Zainab Salbi, Cofounder of Daughters for Earth- The London School of Economics and Political Science.

Full article here & on our story:
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities/2026/08/04/how-are-women-charting-a-new-course-for-people-and-planet/

🌿 WE LOST 60% OF OUR CONNECTION TO NATURE. THEY’RE BRINGING IT BACK📊 Daughters for Earth studied more than 200 women-led...
08/10/2026

🌿 WE LOST 60% OF OUR CONNECTION TO NATURE. THEY’RE BRINGING IT BACK

📊 Daughters for Earth studied more than 200 women-led environmental initiatives across 50 countries, women who had never met each other.

They found the same pattern repeating: in Kenya they restore mangroves, elsewhere they fight for land rights to protect pangolins. Different geographies, the same underlying logic.

🌍 A Nobel Prize-winning physicist called it “islands of coherence”: small points of order that are enough to reorder an entire system in chaos. This is one of those islands.

✍ Original piece by Zainab Salbi, Cofounder of Daughters for Earth- The London School of Economics and Political Science.

🔗 Full article here (& our story): https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities/2026/08/04/how-are-women-charting-a-new-course-for-people-and-planet/

🌿 WE LOST 60% OF OUR CONNECTION TO NATURE. THEY’RE BRINGING IT BACK📊 Daughters for Earth studied more than 200 women-led...
08/10/2026

🌿 WE LOST 60% OF OUR CONNECTION TO NATURE. THEY’RE BRINGING IT BACK

📊 Daughters for Earth studied more than 200 women-led environmental initiatives across 50 countries, women who had never met each other.
They found the same pattern repeating: in Kenya they restore mangroves, elsewhere they fight for land rights to protect pangolins. Different geographies, the same underlying logic.

🌍 A Nobel Prize-winning physicist called it “islands of coherence”: small points of order that are enough to reorder an entire system in chaos. This is one of those islands.

✍ Original piece by Zainab Salbi, Cofounder of Daughters for Earth- The London School of Economics and Political Science.

🔗Full article here (& on our story)
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities/2026/08/04/how-are-women-charting-a-new-course-for-people-and-plane

🎙️Women’s voices shape conversation. Let’s listen to what they are saying regarding today’s topic: INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGES...
08/05/2026

🎙️Women’s voices shape conversation. Let’s listen to what they are saying regarding today’s topic: INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE

Sumak Helena Gualinga - Climate justica & human rights defender

Nemonte Nenquimo - Co-Founder of Ceibo Alliance 2020 Goldman Prize Winner

Dr. Rosa Vásquez Espinoza - PhD Chemical Biologist, National Geographic Explorer and Founder of Amazon Research International

💜 Daughters for Earth supports spaces for women to reconnect with nature and share knowledge.
We fund and celebrate women leading real, place-based solutions.
🔗 Follow us to discover stories of incredible women!

08/03/2026

🌟MEET THE URU URU TEAM: a group of women restoring the environment with powerful indigenous knowledge.

🦩Their sacred Lake Uru Uru -home to Indigenous communities, 76 species, and the Andean flamingo- was dying because of lack of environmental awareness.

✊🏼So Indigenous women stepped forward leading the Uru Uru Team.
Their method? Ancient wisdom meets science. 
🌿 Using native Totora plants to clean the water, naturally.

Led by Dayana Blanco, their vision is clear: Indigenous knowledge is science and it can fight pollution and climate change.

🙌🏼 Stories like Uru Uru Team’s scale when someone chooses to support them. That’s why at Daughters for Earth, we back this work.

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