MAP News, 204th Ed., 2 of 2, Oct. 10, 2008 MAP NEWS, 204th Edition, 10 October
2008, Part 2 of 2
Bangladesh

19 September 2008

Tidal waves wash away 1000 shrimp enclosures

Over 1,000 shrimp enclosures along the coastal areas in the district were washed
away by tidal waves due to depression in the last two days.

Shrimp farmers said due to depression water levels rose by 3-4 feet high than
normal levels in many areas, washing away shrimps worth around Tk 4 crore.

District Fisheries Department official Dr Nityananda Das said they directed
upazila fisheries officials concerned to determine the extent of losses caused
by the tidal waves.

Meanwhile, several hundred fishermen, who took shelter in coastal areas at the
start of inclement weather, went back for fishing again after the rough sea
began returning to normal.

In another development, 10 fishermen, who went missing after their fishing
trawlers capsized in high waves in Narikelbaria and Kotka areas, were rescued
alive yesterday after two days.

Most other missing fishermen were earlier traced and rescued following Monday
night's storm in the Bay of Bengal.

Source: The Daily Star
http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=55469

Submitted by: Zakir Kibria
zakir.kibria@...

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LATIN AMERICA

Brazil

1 October 2008

Community-produced video on mangroves screens at Brazilian international
festival

By Elaine Corets and Cecilia Mello

The video short Nao Mangue de Mim (Don't Mess with the Mangroves) was selected
to be included in one of the most important film festivals in Latin America, the
19th Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival (21-29 August 2008). The video
is the most recent co-production of Cine Clube Caravelas (Bahia, Brazil) and
Mangrove Action Project (MAP), in collaboration with the Abrolhos Marine
National Park.

Nao Mangue de Mim (19 min.) is a poetic view of the mangroves and their myths,
as well as the inhabitants who struggle to conserve this ecosystem so important
for productive fisheries and livelihoods. Its production was made possible by a
grant from the Overbrook Foundation.

Cine Clube Caravelas is led by MAP partner Movimento Cultural Arte Manha, a
volunteer-driven community-based initiative based in Southern Bahia State,
Brazil. For the last 20 years it has been developing an innovative agenda,
joining education, arts productions, and awareness raising on environmental and
social issues. All of the Cine Clube's video productions advocate for the rights
of traditional coastal populations while promoting community empowerment and an
increased awareness of mangrove conservation and industrial shrimp farm issues.

Nao Mangue de Mim has been well-received wherever it has been screened. Large
audiences in public plazas and in rural communities readily identify with the
characters and their story. The positive reactions to the short, from audiences
as varied as artisanal fisherfolk communities to the Bahia State Environmental
Secretariat, show that video production can be an important tool for voicing the
concerns of Brazilian grassroots entities suffering the consequences of mangrove
degradation.

According to the video's director, Jaco Galdino, one of the founders of the Arte
Manha Cultural Movement, "The best of all is that the local population has
perceived that they can be the authors of their own history, they can write and
act, and tell their history from their own point of view, based on their own
experiences. This is an immeasurable advancement; only one who has lived
excluded from the political decision-making process knows what it means to be
writing one's own history and helping to construct a better world."

This is not the Cine Clube's first participation in a film festival. In 2006,
Lia, the first co-production with MAP and the Abrolhos Marine National Park, won
the Cachaça Cinema Clube prize, one of the most pioneering cine clubs of the
city of Rio de Janeiro. The documentary "It's all a lie," a co-production with
Environmental Justice Foundation, was presented at the Hazel Wolf Environmental
Film Festival in Seattle (May 2008) and in Paris at the documentary film
festival "Brésil en Mouvements" (June 2008). Following the current festival in
Sao Paulo, the Arte Manha Cultural Movement has been invited to participate in
the Forum of Popular Audio-Visual Experiences (FEPA) in September in Rio de
Janeiro.

All of this is happening not because something new is being constructed, but
something that is each day more difficult in this world of "me," of isolation,
of being alone. "We know that alone we won't get anywhere, that collectively
each one gives their best and this does not make one better or lesser than the
other," states Galdino.

The environmental secretary of Bahia has publicly committed to support the
production of 2000 copies of Não Mangue de Mim to be distributed amongst coastal
communities throughout the state of Bahia and BrazilSfrom the small town of
Caravelas to the world, through video and art production. Congratulations to
them all!!!

Source: Overbrook Foundation Fall 2008 Newsletter
www.overbrook.org

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Ecuador

24 September 2008

A new law of nature

Ecuador next week votes on giving legal rights to rivers, forests and air. Is
this the end of damaging development? The world is watching

By Clare Kendall

The South American republic of Ecuador will next week consider what many
countries in the world would say is unthinkable. People will be asked to vote on
Sunday on a new constitution that would give Ecuador's tropical forests,
islands, rivers and air similar legal rights to those normally granted to
humans. If they vote yes - and polls show that 56% are for and only 23% are
against - then an already approved bill of rights for nature will be introduced,
and new laws will change the legal status of nature from being simply property
to being a right-bearing entity.

The proposed bill states: "Natural communities and ecosystems possess the
unalienable right to exist, flourish and evolve within Ecuador. Those rights
shall be self-executing, and it shall be the duty and right of all Ecuadorian
governments, communities, and individuals to enforce those rights."

Thomas Linzey, a US lawyer who has helped to develop the new legal framework for
nature, says: "The dominant form of environmental protection in industrialised
countries is based on the regulatory system. Governments permit and legalise the
discharge of certain amounts of toxics into the environment. As a form of
environmental protection, it's not working.

"In the same way, compensation is measured in terms of that injury to a person
or people. Under the new system, it will be measured according to damage to the
ecosystem. The new system is, in essence, an attempt to codify sustainable
development. The new laws would grant people the right to sue on behalf of an
ecosystem, even if not actually injured themselves."

Until now, all legal frameworks have been anthropocentric, or people-based. To
file an environmental lawsuit requires a person to provide evidence of personal
injury. This can be extremely difficult. To provide a conclusive link, say,
between a cancer and polluted drinking water is, legally speaking, virtually
impossible.

The origins of this apparent legal tidal shift lie in Ecuador's growing
disillusionment with foreign multinationals. The country, which contains every
South American ecosystem within its borders, which include the Galapagos
Islands, has had disastrous collisions with multi-national companies. Many, from
banana companies to natural gas extractors, have exploited its natural resources
and left little but pollution and poverty in their wake.

Now it is in the grip of a bitter lawsuit against US oil giant Chevron, formerly
Texaco, over its alleged dumping of billions of gallons of crude oil and toxic
waste waters into the Amazonian jungle over two decades.

It is described as the Amazonian Chernobyl, and 30,000 local people claim that
up to 18m tonnes of oil was dumped into unlined pits over two decades, in
defiance of international guidelines, and contaminating groundwater over an area
of some 1,700 hectares (4,200 acres) and leading to a plethora of serious health
problems for anyone living in the area. Chevron has denied the allegations. In
April, a court-appointed expert announced in a report that, should Chevron lose,
it would have to pay up to $16bn (£8.9bn) in damages.

Chevron, which claims its responsibilities were absolved in 1992 when it handed
over its operations in Ecuador to the state-owned extraction company,
Petroecuador, immediately set about discrediting the report. A verdict on the
case is still thought to be a long way off, and Ecuador's government could face
US trade sanctions for its refusal to "kill" the case.

Environmental campaigner Zoe Tryon, of the Pachamama Alliance, which has worked
closely with Ecuador's assembly, claims that the proposed new laws will make
Ecuador's constitution "the most progressive in the world", and argues that such
laws will prevent this situation from arising again. "It's too late for the
Chevron case, but it will be an effective deterrent for similar operations," she
says.

The laws would have particular relevance in the Yasuni national park, one of the
world's most biodiverse areas and home to at least two "uncontacted" Amazonian
tribes. It is also "home" to a possible 1.2bn barrels of untapped crude oil,
which companies want to extract.

"The hope is that the new laws will give us unprecedented legal muscle to
protect areas like this where there are competing interests," says Linda
Siegele, a lawyer for the UK-based Foundation for International Environmental
Law and Development.

Linzey admits that Ecuador may be taking a step into the legal unknown. "No one
knows what will happen [if the referendum goes in favour of new rights for
nature] because there are no examples of how this works in the real world," he
says. "A lot of people will be watching what happens."

Source: The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sep/24/equador.conservation



STORIES / ISSUES


Editor's Notes: Given that most mangrove restoration attempts around the globe
are actually establishing monoculture plantations of one species of mangroves,
it seems important that MAP and our allies also direct our attention to this
important issue of plantation establishment as a substitute for healthy,
biodiverse forests. MAP endorses this Declaration.

24 September 2008

Declaration of Foresters: Monoculture tree plantations are not forests

Statement by forestry professionals and students
2008

Throughout the world, governments are actively promoting the expansion of
large-scale monoculture tree plantations, despite the serious social and
environmental impacts already witnessed on existing plantations. The promoters
of this model claim that plantations are forests, which simply is not true.
Plantations are not forests. Unfortunately, many of our colleagues in the
forestry sector support this model, and our teaching institutions continue to
train new generations of forestry professionals to perpetuate and expand this
type of forestry model, aimed at seeing forests where they do not exist.

This is why we feel the need to publicly state not only that monoculture tree
plantations are not forests, but also that these plantations result or have
resulted in the destruction of our native forests and of other equally valuable
ecosystems that they replace.

Those who know the most about this issue are the local populations who directly
suffer the impacts of plantations, such as:

- Loss of biodiversity (and the resulting loss of food, medicines, firewood, and
materials for housing construction and crafts, among others).
- Changes in the water cycle, resulting both in the decrease and depletion of
water sources and the increase of flooding and landslides.
- Decreased food production.
- Soil degradation.
- Loss of indigenous and traditional cultures that depend on the original
ecosystems.
- Conflicts with forestry companies over the ownership of land in indigenous
territories and those of other traditional communities.
- Decreased sources of employment in traditionally agricultural areas.
- Expulsion of rural populations.
- Destruction of the natural landscape in tourism areas.

For reasons like these, we forestry professionals who strive for the
conservation of forests and recognise the basic rights of the peoples who live
there must take the side of those who truly defend the forests - the local
communities - and oppose the expansion of monoculture plantations.

We want to stress that this process is not beginning today, but in fact dates
back to the 2005 World Social Forum in Porto Alegre. At that time, a group of
forestry students and professionals agreed on the need for "another kind of
forestry training based on a different way of seeing the world, in which forests
are not seen simply as wood, but rather as what they really are: diverse
ecosystems made up of forest flora, fauna and peoples." In line with this
position,

Today, within this framework, we are calling on forestry students and
professionals to adhere to this declaration and to begin a process, inside and
outside educational institutions, that will make it possible for those of us who
enter this profession to actually do what we thought we would be doing when we
entered it: defending forests and the peoples who depend on them.

Source: World Rainforest Movement
http://www.wrm.org.uy/

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6 October 2008

Ted Turner Announces First-Ever Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria at World
Conservation Congress

Voluntary standards help travel suppliers around the world meet increasing
consumer demand for products and services that will have positive effects on
communities and the environment

Barcelona, Spain - United Nations Foundation Founder and Chairman Ted Turner
joined the Rainforest Alliance, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
and the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) today to announce the
first-ever globally relevant sustainable tourism criteria at the IUCN World
Conservation Congress. The new criteria - based on thousands of best practices
culled from the existing standards currently in use around the world - were
developed to offer a common framework to guide the emerging practice of
sustainable tourism and to help businesses, consumers, governments,
non-governmental organizations and education institutions to ensure that tourism
helps, rather than harms, local communities and the environment.

"Sustainability is just like the old business adage: 'you don't encroach on the
principal, you live off the interest'," said Turner. "Unfortunately, up to this
point, the travel industry and tourists haven't had a common framework to let
them know if they're really living up to that maxim. But the Global Sustainable
Tourism Criteria (GSTC) will change that. This is a win-win initiative - good
for the environment and good for the world's tourism industry."

"Tourism is one of the fastest growing industries and a strong contributor to
sustainable development and poverty alleviation," said Francesco Frangialli,
Secretary-General of the United Nations World Tourism Organization. "Over 900
million international tourists travelled last year and UNWTO forecasts 1.6
billion tourists by the year 2020. In order to minimize the negative impacts of
this growth, sustainability should translate from words to facts, and be an
imperative for all tourism stakeholders. The GSTC initiative will undoubtedly
constitute a major reference point for the entire tourism sector and an
important step in making sustainability an inherent part of tourism
development."

The criteria were developed by the Partnership for Global Sustainable Tourism
Criteria (GSTC Partnership), a new coalition of 27 organizations that includes
tourism leaders from the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. Over the
past 15 months, the partnership consulted with sustainability experts and the
tourism industry and reviewed more than 60 existing certification and voluntary
sets of criteria already being implemented around the globe. In all, more than
4,500 criteria have been analyzed and more than 80,000 people, including
conservationists, industry leaders, governmental authorities and UN bodies, have
been invited to comment on the resulting criteria.

"Consumers deserve widely accepted standards to distinguish green from
greenwashed. These criteria will allow true certification of sustainable
practices in hotels and resorts as well as other travel suppliers," said Jeff
Glueck, chief marketing officer of Travelocity/Sabre, a member of the GSTC
Partnership. "They will give travelers confidence that they can make choices to
help the sustainability cause. They also will help the forward-thinking
suppliers who deserve credit for doing things right."

Available at www.SustainableTourismCriteria.org, the criteria focus on four
areas experts recommend as the most critical aspects of sustainable tourism:
maximizing tourism's social and economic benefits to local communities; reducing
negative impacts on cultural heritage; reducing harm to local environments; and
planning for sustainability. The GSTC Partnership is developing educational
materials and technical tools to guide hotels and tour operators in implementing
the criteria.

"The American Society of Travel Agents feels it especially important to be a
part of this global partnership that is leading the way in defining once and for
all what it means to be a sustainable travel company," said William Maloney,
Chief Operating Officer for ASTA. "As an organization with its own Green Member
program, it's incumbent upon us to ensure that our steps toward a travel
retailers' green initiative were in sync with responsible global developments.
The criteria will provide our members with much-needed guidelines for assessing
future business partners' commitment to sustainable tourism while offering
consumers clear and reliable information about the travel choices they make."

"The Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria initiative is about steering the
industry onto a truly sustainable path - one that echoes to the challenge of our
time: namely the fostering and federating of a global Green Economy that thrives
on the interest rather than the capital of our economically-important
nature-based assets," said Achim Steiner, United Nations Under-Secretary General
and Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme.

"The Rainforest Alliance celebrates the outcomes of the GSTC Partnership, which
we believe will help the tourism industry put itself on a sustainable path,"
said Tensie Whelan, Executive Director of the Rainforest Alliance. "The Global
Sustainable Tourism Criteria that have been developed will shape the minimum
requirements that the Sustainable Tourism Stewardship Council will demand from
accredited certification programs and help travelers have the assurance that
they are helping, not harming, the environment."

"The GSTC Partnership is a collaborative effort to provide a much needed common
framework and understanding of sustainable tourism practices," said Janna
Morrison, Senior Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility at Choice
Hotels International. "Tourism is an important and growing industry that
supports sustainability and will clearly benefit from this common framework.
Ultimately this effort will result in a positive impact on communities and the
environment."

"Expedia is proud to support the Partnership for Global Sustainable Tourism
Criteria and committed to using these criteria as a standard for designating a
travel partner 'sustainable'," said Paul Brown, President Expedia Partner
Services Group and Expedia North America. "Consumers today are more motivated
than ever to incorporate sustainable practices into their lives, at Expedia we
are motivated as well and dedicated to being a leader in sustainable travel.
We're proud of our travel partners - hotels and tour operators - who are
already excelling in this area, and hopeful that they will set the bar for their
peers around the world. We hope that our travelers will see and appreciate the
hard work our partners go through to fulfill these criteria and reach the
benchmark of sustainability."

Press contacts:
Amy DiElsi, United Nations Foundation
(c) 202-492-3078 (e) adielsi@...
Maya Israel, Rubenstein Communications
(o) 212-843-8003, (e) misrael@...

Source: UNEP
http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=548&ArticleID=\
5936&l=en

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CONFERENCES / WORKSHOPS / PUBLICATIONS


Glossary of aquaculture
Crespi, V.; Coche, A. (comps)
Rome, FAO. 2008. 401p. (Multilingual version including Arabic and Chinese)
Includes a CD-ROM.

Validated by international experts, this glossary contains over 2 500 terms and
definitions in English, French, Spanish, Arabic and Chinese. A valuable tool for
aquaculture research and development. Available in hard copy, and on the
accompanying CD-ROM and in PDF on website.

ABSTRACT
The successful development of aquaculture depends on the application of
appropriate technologies and on the constructive interaction between
aquaculturists, government authorities and research institutes using a common
language and standard technical terminology. In this context, the Food and
Agriculture Organization of United Nations (FAO) pays particular attention to
the standardization of terminology in order to facilitate and/or enhance
information dissemination and exchange among users.

This aquaculture glossary was prepared by the Aquaculture Management and
Conservation Service of the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department and funded
by the regular programme. This document aims (i) to facilitate communication
among technical experts and scientists involved in aquaculture research and
development; and (ii) to enhance communication between aquaculture research and
development technicians and scientists, developers, consultants and users from
other disciplines such as administrators, agriculturists, economists, engineers,
environmentalists and policy-makers.

Source: FAO
http://www.dev-zone.org/cgi-bin/links/jump.cgi?ID=15503


ANNOUNCEMENTS


5 September 2008

Request to submit photos for the 2009 International Day for Biological Diversity
on Invasive Alien Species

As announced in the notification of 21 July 2008 (2008-087), the Secretariat of
the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is currently developing
publications for the celebration of the 2009 International Day for Biological
Diversity (IBD), under the theme of invasive alien species.

We invite all interested individuals and relevant organizations to share digital
photos (amateur or professional) relevant to the theme of invasive alien species
and biodiversity, for possible use for IBD 2009 related materials. The photos
will be used on the brochures, posters and websites created by the Secretariat.
The CBD will need to be granted the right to use these photos for non-commercial
purposes. We would also be grateful if the photos could be used for future CBD
publications outside of the IBD framework.

Please send high-quality digital photographs in jpeg, tiff or psd format to
secretariat@.... Photos of 300 dpi with a physical dimension of at least 10
by 15 cm (4 by 6 inches) will be suitable. When sending please include
information about the content of the photo, specifying the species or ecosystems
represented, and the name of the person to be credited for. If the file size of
the photo exceeds 3 megabytes, inform the Secretariat and we will provide you
with an alternate means to deliver the photos.

We thank you in advance for your generous contributions.

Source: Ahmed Dioghlaf
Secretariat@...
Executive Secretary CBD
www.cbd.int

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2 October 2008

Mindanawon makes it to TIME's "Heroes of the Environment 2008"

By Carolyn O. Arguillas

DAVAO CITY - A zoologist born and raised in Agusan del Norte has made it to TIME
magazine's "Heroes of the Environment 2008" along with Guyana President Bharrat
Jagdeo, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenneger, British entrepreneur Peter
Head, Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Chinese journalist Wang Yongchan and
26 others.

The lone Filipino among the 2008 heroes, Jurgenne Honculada-Primavera, was
chosen for her campaign on sustainable fish/shrimp farming and the protection of
mangroves.

"I am not and have never been against aquaculture in my mangrove advocacy. My
paradigm is that of mangroves and ponds existing side by side, carefully
balanced to protect the environment while sustaining food production," she said.

A multi-awarded scientist, Pew Fellow and Scientist Emerita of the Southeast
Asian Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department
(SEAFDEC/AQD), Primavera is one of six heroes under the category, "Scientists
and Innovators." The other categories are "Leaders and Visionaries;" "Moguls and
Entrepreneurs;" and "Activists."

Primavera finished BS Zoology, cum laude, at the University of the Philippines
in 1966 and her doctoral degree in Marine Science in 1996 from the same
university. She obtained her MA in Zoology from the Indiana University in 1969,
taught biology and zoology at the Mindanao State University in Marawi City and
has been based in Iloilo since 1975, when she joined SEAFDEC/AQD.

Primavera learned she was chosen when Bangkok-based Hannah Beech of TIME
Magazine "interviewed me long distance for one hour at my Sta. Barbara,
California hotel" on September 23.She was in Sta. Barbara for a meeting with her
writing group at the University of California. The group meets twice a year, she
said.

She returned to the country evening of October 1 and saw a copy of the magazine
only today. Beech's article on Primavera begins with a question: "Love shrimp
cocktail?"She continues: "So do lots of others - and that's the problem.
Jurgenne Primavera, whose groundbreaking studies on the life cycles of tiger
prawns in her native Philippines helped galvanize an aquaculture revolution,
doesn't want to impose a global ban on shrimp tempura. But the former senior
scientist at the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center on the Filipino
island of Panay is campaigning for sustainable fish-farming in order to protect
the mangrove forests that act as a crucial buffer zone between land and sea."

Primavera is promoting protection of the country's mangrove ecosystems, "which
are threatened by construction of aquaculture ponds and other exploitation."

"Primavera's message is that mangroves can save lives and property from
destructive typhoons, filter out silt runoff that kills coral reefs, provide
nurseries to juvenile fish and shrimp, and renew fisheries catches. Having spent
many years promoting the construction of aquaculture ponds in mangrove areas,
Primavera's message of mangrove protection carries significant weight," the
SEAFDEC/ACD website notes.

Primavera said the country has 230,000 hectares of fishponds. But the mangrove
cover is only about half of that. There is an ongoing review, she said, on the
number of mangrove hectarage in the country.

A healthy coastal ecosystem, she told MindaNews, requires "two to six hectares
of mangroves for every hectare of fishpond."

"We have a lot of rehabilitation to do," she said, adding that while mangrove
reforestation is going on, the mortality rate is high.

"I wish we Filipinos had more concern for mangroves and the environment,"
Primavera told MindaNews.

Born in Ampayon, Butuan City, Primavera graduated from the Buenavista Elementary
School in Buenavista, Agusan del Norte and the Agusan High School in Butuan
City.

A scholarship from the National Science and Development Board (NSDB) led her to
the course, BS Zoology, when she started college at the University of the
Philippines in Diliman in 1962.

Primavera was conferred a Ph.D. in Science honoris causa by Stockholm University
in September 2004. "In cooperation with scientists from Stockholm University she
has shown that mangroves are key areas for recruitment of fish and shrimp and
that development of conventional shrimp farming may have far reaching negative
economic and social implications. [To] create sustainable alternatives she is
now doing research on integrated farming of shrimp, fish, crabs and mangrove,"
the citation read.

She is also a recipient of a Pew Marine Conservation Fellowship. The Fellowship
is given to "exemplary leaders and active problem-solvers whose work has
important ramifications for creating innovative marine conservation strategies,
deploying new technologies, increasing awareness and understanding of the
world's oceans, and establishing sustainable marine policy at the regional,
national, and international levels."

Despite her many concerns, Primavera found time for a first visit to the Agusan
Marsh in May 2005 when she received an award as among Five Outstanding Butuanons
during the annual BalikButuan. During that visit, she wrote, "for one who had
spent her professional life outside Agusan (in Lanao and Iloilo), I felt it was
payback time to my birthplace and promised to do science in the Marsh."

She did. Two years later, the First Scientific Conference on the Agusan Marsh
was held in Butuan City on May 21-23, 2007.

Primavera is wife to Nick and mother to Yasmin and sons Nikos, Karlo and Jorge.
Yasmin and Karlo are marine scientists, Nikos is into writing and Law and Jorge
obtained his MS International Development from the International University of
Japan.

Last year, Von Hernandez of Greenpeace Philippines, was among those named as
TIME's Environmental Heroes for 2007. "

In 2003, actress Chin-Chin Gutierrez was named one of the Asian Heroes by TIME,
for her advocacy for environmental protection.

"These heroes of the environment," wrote TIME's Bryan Walsh in this year's
special edition, "provide light in the darkness" and "are living proof that
despair is not the only option, that hope remains a choice."

"They remind us that in the face of human creativity and will, no challenge is
too great, and no battle is unwinnable - if only we fight."

Source: MindaNews
http://www.mindanews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5251&Itemid=1\
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