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Indigenous Activist from Brazil Awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize

Virginia Isaad
Indigenous communities are constantly having to protect their lands and livelihood and in the Amazon in Brazil it remains an ongoing struggle. Alessandra Korap Munduruku, a member of the Munduruku people, a community of about 14,000 throughout the Tapajós River...
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Mayan Beekeeper Leydy Pech Awarded ‘Green Nobel Prize’ for Environmental Activism

Virginia Isaad
Leydy Pech is a 55-year-old Mayan beekeeper from the state of Campeche in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula who was honored this year with the Goldman Environmental Prize — known as the Green Nobel Prize — which is given to grassroots environmental...