Sentences with phrase «forest activists»

Prior to this work, Kristina was the Forestry Project Manager for the Environment Now Foundation, where she managed grant making and worked closely with forest activists on the development of strategy and the implementation of initiatives.

A chorus of tweets cast Mora as an environmental martyr akin to Chico Mendes, the Brazilian rain forest activist who was assassinated in 1988.

I had spent the summer planning a three - week vacation to Cambodia and Myanmar with no way of knowing that the jury would award Cambodian forest activist Leng Ouch the Prize five days before I left.

Forest activist Ouch Leng has been awarded this year's Goldman prize for his work protecting forests from logging

I'm a committed forest activist and bushwalking guide....

«Forest activists often operate without a support network because the [nonprofit] community fears to confront the cartels.

Environmental campaigners said that endemic corruption in Para State's judiciary has allowed the murder of forest activists to be committed with impunity.

In April, forest activist Chut Wutty was shot dead at an illegal logging site by military police.

Odigha Odigha, a Nigerian forest activist and educator, is leading the campaign against devastating industrial logging in the forests of Cross River State in southeastern Nigeria.

In recent years, several forest activists have been attacked and even killed by illegal loggers and other special interests who broker deals with corrupt local politicians and courts.

José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva, a Brazilian rain forest activist, and his wife are shot dead near their home in Para State, in the Amazon.

Here's a video of a recent TEDx appearance of the new victim, José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva, a forest activist and tree nut harvester who was gunned down on Tuesday along with his wife as they rode a motorcycle in Brazil's still turbulent Para State (for English subtitles, press play, then engage the «cc» closed - captioning button):

Several fears about the new APP commitment were highlighted by Lafcadio Cortesi, a forest activist with the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), whose three - year pulp and paper campaign has led several prominent book publishers to drop APP as a supplier.

In Peru alone, 57 forest activists have died since negotiations on climate change began in 1992.

Forest activists are celebrating a major new collaboration with a paper giant they have been campaigning against for years.

OMESP was founded by Celsa Valdovinos, whose husband Felipe Arreaga, another forest activist, was detained and falsely accused of homicide in 2004.