As a teenage mother and activist, Liz Chicaje would travel by boat and foot across Peru's Amazon rainforest with her young daughter campaigning to protect the ancestral lands of the Bora indigenous people from illegal logging and mining.
To preserve the forest that the Bora and other indigenous people depend on for hunting and fishing in Peru's north-eastern region of Loreto, Ms Chicaje spearheaded the creation of a 809,370-hectare national park.Ms Chicaje's activism and leadership earned her a prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize — known as the "Green Nobel" — which honours grassroots activism, along with five other winners.
"We live off the forest. It's our wealth. If it wasn't for the forests, we wouldn't have the food and pure air that we breathe," Ms Chicaje, 38, said - link
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