Mexico: Baja Fisherman Wins Condé Nast Environmental Award
Grantee Javier Villavicencio was presented with the Condé Nast Traveler Environmental Award for his work to protect the land and wildlife of the Baja California peninsula.
India: Pesticide Deaths Prompt New Efforts to Regulate Their Use in India
On September 20, 2001, Enakunthala Ravi died at MGM Hospital in Warangal District of Andhra Pradesh, India. He did not die from cancer, old age, or any prolonged sickness. Ravi was a migrant cotton farm worker in the village of Akkampeta, and he died a day after spraying the toxic pesticide methyl parathion, also known as Metacid, for just one hour.
Peru: Indigenous Machiguenga People Work to Influence Camisea Pipeline
The Machiguenga people of Peru share the Urubamba River basin with the Nahua, Yine, Kugapakori, and other indigenous peoples. They also now share their lands with a consortium of companies that have arrived to extract natural gas and build the Camisea Pipeline, which will carry natural gas across some of the most remote, sensitive, and biologically rich lands in Peru.
Brazil: Neighborhood Energy and Creativity in the Atlantic Forest
Vitae Civilis grantee Guapiruvú Neighborhood Association (AGUA) and stimulates sustainable economic growth in São Paulo’s poorest region.