Protecting indigenous land, resources, and heritage.

For decades, the natural resources of Liberia's indigenous communities have been pillaged, and ancestral, customary, and tribal lands have been destroyed. Mount Nimba, Mount Tokadeh, Bong Mines, and the Mano River all bear the marks of reckless exploration and depletion, while the people who live there have seen little of the wealth taken from beneath their feet.

PGAG was founded to protect our heritage and our communities from further exploitation and degradation. We are a nonpolitical, nonethnic, nonreligious, and nongovernmental organization.

Our purpose is simple: to see that exploitation ends, and that indigenous local people benefit from the wealth and resources of their own communities.

Land Rights Advocacy

We protect, support, and advocate for indigenous and tribal land and resources, standing with communities in Putu and in concession areas across Liberia, Africa, and beyond.

Concession Transparency

We review the terms, conditions, and community impact of company operations in Liberia, working toward a complete public record of concession agreements and accountability where they are broken.

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What we have done so far

Since our formation, PGAG has supported the people of Putu as they advocate for their citizens in the ongoing Putu Mountain reopening negotiations. We are working alongside:

• Liberia's National Investment Commission, building a database of all company operations in Liberia, beginning with Grand Gedeh, Nimba, Sinoe, and Grand Cape Mount counties
• The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), on accountability for transgressors when local and national governments are complicit
• The Ghana Environmental Advocacy Group
• The International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (New York)
• Nigeria's Environmental Rights Action

Our goals for the next 12 months

1. Catalogue every concession agreement in Liberia
2. Engage affected communities directly
3. Collaborate with another global advocacy group
4. Keep an active legal retainer for enforcement and litigation when dialogue fails