Wangari Maathai, Nobel laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement in Kenya, passed away late Sunday night while undergoing cancer treatment in Nairobi. But she left the world having fully lived her 71 years, to the benefit of the rest of us. Like many prominent women her age, Maathai had to break through many […]
New aerial photographs show at least four illegal logging camps inside the Murunahua Reserve in Peru, Survival International reported yesterday. The Reserve is located deep in the Amazonian rainforest of Peru and was established to protect the uncontacted Murunahua Indians. The illegal logging camps present a huge threat to the Murunahua Indians, who like their neighboring ancestors, […]