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Peruvian mum awarded with ‘Green Nobel’ for work to create new national park in Amazon rainforest
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.
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- Six grassroots activists received Goldman prizes…
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