Environment

People known for environmental work.

People in Environment

13 profiles

Environmentalist

Wangari Maathai

Founding the Green Belt Movement and linking environmental protection with women’s rights.

Environmental writer

Rachel Carson

Writing Silent Spring and challenging indiscriminate pesticide use.

Environmentalist

Chico Mendes

Linking protection of the Amazon rainforest with the livelihoods of rubber tappers.

Activist

Berta Cáceres

Defending Lenca land and the Gualcarque River against the Agua Zarca dam project.

Activist

Borim Kim

Organising youth climate action in South Korea.

Environmentalist

Jean Wiener

Helping establish Haiti’s Three Bays marine protected area.

Environmentalist

Hammerskjoeld Simwinga

Linking elephant conservation with community livelihoods in Zambia.

Activist

Ambrosius Ruwindrijarto

Co-founding Telapak and investigating environmental destruction in Indonesia.

Environmentalist

Azzam Alwash

Helping restore Iraq’s southern marshes.

Activist

Chibeze Ezekiel

Campaigning against a proposed coal-fired power plant in Ghana.

Environmentalist

Leng Ouch

Exposing illegal logging in Cambodia through undercover investigations.

Environmentalist

Kristal Ambrose

Campaigning for the Bahamas’ ban on single-use plastics.

Environmentalist

Uroš Macerl

Challenging industrial pollution in Slovenia’s Trbovlje region.