News Headline

Women Warriors Take Environmental Protection into Their Own Hands

Source
Inter Press News Agency

Publication Date
2014-08-08

"The forest is the life of my people, the trees are like the pores in our skin, the water is like the blood that flows through us…the forest is the mother of my tribe,” Aleta told IPS.The winner of the 2013 Goldman Environmental Prize, she represents an expanding international movement against environmental destruction helmed by humble, often poor, rural and tribal women.

Content
http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/08/women-warriors-take-environmental-protection-into-their-own-hands/