Brazilian activist wins international forest champion award

Reuters | 21 Dec 2017

BONN, Germany (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A Brazilian activist who helped thousands of people in the Amazon rainforest to use their land sustainably won an international environmental award on Wednesday.

Despite threats from logging companies, Maria Margarida Ribeiro da Silva, from the northern state of Pará, has been campaigning for more than a decade for the right of local people to use land for hunting, fishing and harvesting wild plants.

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