#Goldman Environmental Prize

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from Yale Environment 360:

For nearly a decade, Nonhle Mbuthuma has traveled with a bodyguard. The founder of the Amadiba Crisis Committee — a local group formed to fight a proposed titanium mine along South Africa’s Wild Coast — Mbuthuma has long had the support of many in rural Pondoland’s Xolobeni community. But opponents have demonized her as an arch enemy of all economic development, and some have been encouraged to believe that if Mbuthuma “disappeared,” they would get rich.

Eight years ago, Mbuthuma’s activist colleague Sikhosiphi “Bazooka” Rhadebe, who opposed the mine, was shot dead outside his home by two men dressed as police officers. (Neither assailant has been caught.) Mbuthuma was also a target that day. Amadiba succeeded in halting construction of the mine, and Mbuthuma, 46, has continued working to protect this highly biodiverse region and the traditional culture of the Mpondo people.

This week, Mbuthuma, and her colleague Sinegugu Zukulu, won a Goldman Environmental Prize for their recent efforts to prevent Shell Oil from prospecting along the Wild Coast. As the activist headed to San Francisco to pick up her award, she spoke via Zoom with Yale Environment 360 about Pondoland, plans for its future development, and continuing threats to her life.

Yale Environment 360: Tell me about your struggle with Shell Oil.

Nonhle Mbuthuma: When we heard in late 2021 that Shell wanted to do seismic blasting off the coast, it was like someone put a bomb to our chest. These waters are precious, with rich ocean currents and reefs feeding whale calving grounds and fisheries. That water is part of us. We have cooperatives that do environmental fishing, using rods rather than nets that wipe out everything. But the ocean is also a sacred place. According to our traditions, our ancestors reside in the ocean. We have a right under our country’s constitution to practice our culture, and that requires protecting our waters. So we decided to fight in the courts.

The government had already given Shell permission to start seismic blasting. Shell is a big company with a lot of money, but we said that they are not bigger than our livelihoods and culture. We mobilized our communities to collect information to explain why the ocean is so important to us. We were backed by protests all over the country.

Even as the surveying began, the high court ruled in our favor. The judges said the permit to do the surveys had been granted unlawfully because the government had not considered the impact on our livelihoods and culture and because Shell did not consult the community, which is a requirement of our constitution. But Shell and the government have decided to appeal the judgment.

[reasonsforhope]

"Winning what’s been called the ‘Green Nobel’ an Indian environmental activist has been recognized for saving a 657 square-mile forest from 21 coal mines.

From the New Delhi train station to high-end hotels to the poorest communities, virtually no one in India is free from periodic blackouts. As part of the Modi regime’s push for a developed and economically dominant India, power generation of every sort is being installed in huge quantities.

GNN has reported this drive has included some of the world’s largest solar energy projects, but it also involves coal. India is one of the largest consumers of coal for electricity generation, and Hasdeo Aranya forests, known as the “Lungs of Chhattisgarh,” are known to harbor large deposits.

The state government had been investigating 21 proposed coal mining blocks across 445,000 acres of biodiverse forests that provide crucial natural resources to the area’s 15,000 indigenous Adivasi people.

Along with the Adivasi, tigers, elephants, sloth bears, leopards, and wolves, along with dozens of endemic bird and reptile species call this forest home. It’s one of India’s largest intact arboreal habitats, but 5.6 billion metric tons of mineable coal threatened to destroy it all.

Enter Alok Shukla, founder of the Save Hasdeo Aranya Resistance Committee, which began a decade ago advocating for the protection of Hasdeo through a variety of media and protest campaigns, including sit-ins, tree-hugging campaigns, advocating for couples to write #savehasdeo on their wedding invitations, and publishing a variety of other social media content.

Shukla also took his message directly to the legislature, reminding them through news media coverage of their obligations to India’s constitution which enshrines protection for tribal people and the environments they require to continue their traditional livelihoods.

Beginning with a proposal to create a single protected area called Lemru elephant reserve within Hasdeo that would protect elephant migration corridors and cancel three of the 21 mining proposals, Shukla and the Adivasi began a 160-mile protest march down a national highway towards the Chhattisgarh state capital of Raipur.

They hadn’t even crossed the halfway mark when news reached them that not only was the elephant reserve idea unanimously agreed upon, but every existing coal mining proposal had been rejected by the state legislature, and all existing licenses would be canceled.

“We had no expectations, but the legislative assembly voted unanimously that all of the coal mines of Hasdeo should be canceled, and the forest should be saved,” Shukla says in recollection to the Goldman Prize media channel.

“That was a very important moment and happy moment for all of us.”

Shukla shares the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize with 5 other winners, from Brazil, the US, South Africa, Australia, and Spain."

-via Good News Network, May 20, 2024. Video via Goldman Environmental Prize, April 29, 2024.

[fatehbaz]

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For the Maya, the honey bee is more than an insect. For millennia, the tiny, stingless species Melipona beecheii -- much smaller than Apis mellifera, the European honey bee -- has been revered in the Maya homeland in what is now Central America. Honey made by the animal the Maya call Xunan kab has long been used in a sacred drink, and as medicine to treat a whole host of ailments, from fevers to animal bites. The god of bees appears in relief on the walls of the imposing seacliff fortress of Tulum, the sprawling inland complex of Cobá, and at other ancient sites.

Today, in small, open-sided, thatched-roof structures deep in the tropical forests of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, traditional beekeepers still tend to Xunan kab colonies. The bees emerge from narrow openings in their hollow log homes each morning to forage for pollen and nectar among the lush forest flowers and, increasingly, the cultivated crops beyond the forests’ shrinking borders. And that is where the sacred bee of the Maya gets into trouble.

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In 2012, the Mexican government granted permission to Monsanto to plant genetically modified soybeans in Campeche and other states on the peninsula without first consulting local communities. The soybeans are engineered to withstand high doses of the controversial weedkiller Roundup; multiple studies have shown exposure to its main ingredient, glyphosate, negatively impacts bees, including by impairing behavior and changing the composition of the animals’ gut microbiome. Though soy is self-pollinating and doesn’t rely on insects, bees do visit the plants while foraging, collecting nectar and pollen as they go. Soon, Maya beekeepers found their bees disoriented and dying in high numbers. And Leydy Pech found her voice.

A traditional Maya beekeeper from the small Campeche city of Hopelchén, Pech had long advocated for sustainable agriculture and the integration of Indigenous knowledge into modern practice. But the new threat to her Xunan kab stirred her to action as never before. She led an assault on the Monsanto program on multiple fronts: legal, academic, and public outrage, including staging protests at ancient Maya sites. The crux of the legal argument by Pech and her allies was that the government had violated its own law by failing to consult with Indigenous communities before granting the permit to Monsanto. In 2015, Mexico’s Supreme Court unanimously agreed. Two years later, the government revoked the permit to plant the crops.

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As Pech saw it, the fight was not simply about protecting the sacred bee. The campaign was to protect entire ecosystems, the communities that rely on them, and a way of life increasingly threatened by the rise of industrial agriculture, climate change, and deforestation.

“Bees depend on the plants in the forest to produce honey,” she told the public radio program Living on Earth in 2021. “So, less forest means less honey [...]. Struggles like these are long and generational. [...] ”

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Headline, images, captions, and all text by: Gemma Tarlach. “The Keeper of Sacred Bees Who Took on a Giant.” Atlas Obscura. 23 March 2022. [The first image in this post was not included with Atlas Obscura’s article, but was added by me. Photo by The Goldman Environmental Prize, from “The Ladies of Honey: Protecting Bees and Preserving Tradition,” published online in May 2021. With caption added by me.]

[plethoraworldatlas]

Friday is Indigenous Peoples Day in Brazil, and tribal leaders and activists used the occasion to criticize the left-wing government of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for falling short on promises to safeguard native land rights.

On Thursday, the Brazilian government announced the demarcation of Aldeia Velha, land of the Pataxó people, in the northeastern state of Bahia, as well as the territory of the Karajá people in Cacique Fontoura, Mato Grosso.

"Since the beginning of the current government, 10 areas have been regularized out of a total of 14 routed for approval," the government said in a statement. "The act reaffirms the focus of the federal government on the protection and respect of Indigenous peoples."

However, Indigenous peoples were anticipating the demarcation of six new territories. Lula acknowledged their disappointment.

"I know you are apprehensive and expected the demarcation of six Indigenous lands. But now we only announce two. And I'm being real with you," he said.

"Some of this missing land is occupied either by farmers or peasants," the president explained. "We cannot arrive without giving these people an alternative. Some governors asked for time to resolve, in a negotiated manner, the eviction of these territories so that we can demarcate them."

"The definition of these lands is already ready. What we do not want is to promise you today, and tomorrow you read in the newspaper, that a contrary decision was made," Lula added. "The frustration would be greater."

But the frustration was already there—and growing.

"This is revolting for us Indigenous peoples to have had so much faith in the government's commitments to our rights and the demarcation of our territories," Alessandra Korap Munduruku, a member of the Munduruku people and a 2023 winner of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize, told Amazon Watch in a statement published Friday.

"We hear all of these discussions about environmental and climate protection, but without support for Indigenous peoples on the front lines, suffering serious attacks and threats. Lula cannot speak about fighting climate change without fulfilling his duty to demarcate our lands," she added.

[alder-knight]

Most of these multinational corporations that come to the South, to the Global South, are coming from the Global North. The majority of the shareholders are in the Global North. You see, the best scenario I can paint to you is that it's like people in the North are letting their dogs out to go and cause chaos out there in the Global South. And we are supposed to fend for ourselves, trying to keep these dogs that are coming and are disrupting our lives and our livelihood. But the real beneficiaries of these oil giants are the shareholders in the North. It should not be like that. We should all be working together to protect and to ensure that this planet remains livable, not just for us, but for the future generations as well.

— Sinegugu Zukulu, recipient along with Nonhle Mbuthuma of the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize for Africa

[coochiequeens]

Ladies please reblog to spread the word about these ladies and their fight to protect their homes from the destruction of the Oil industry

BY NEMONTE NENQUIMO AND NONHLE MBUTHUMA

DECEMBER 15, 2022 7:00 AM EST

Nenquimo, co-founder of Amazon Frontlines and the Ceibo Alliance, is a Waorani leader who has won the Goldman Environmental Prize. Mbuthuma is a leader of the amaMpondo people in South Africa and spokesperson of the Amadiba Crisis Committee, a collective that defends her community’s rights to steward their ancestral land.

We are two Indigenous women leaders writing from the frontlines of the battle to save our oceans, our forests, and our planet’s climate. We have good news to share: We know how to beat Big Oil.

From the Amazon rainforest to the shores of the Indian Ocean in South Africa, we have led our communities to mighty victories against oil companies who hoped to profit off our territories. In September 2022, we succeeded in getting a court to revoke a permit that would have allowed Shell to despoil Indigenous farming communities and fishing grounds along the pristine Wild Coast of South Africa. Just a few years earlier in April 2019, we organized Indigenous communities deep in the Ecuadorian rainforests to resist the government’s plans to drill in pristine rainforests and were victorious, protecting half a million acres of forests and setting a legal precedent to protect millions more.

Both were David vs. Goliath victories—and both were opportunities for us to learn where to point that fabled slingshot.

Big Oil has the deepest of pockets and a horrific track record when it comes to corruption, scandal, and environmental crimes. Across the world, Indigenous and local communities know that once the industry gets a foothold in our lands, it leaves ruin in its wake. For instance, the A’i Cofán people of Ecuador’s northern Amazon have borne the brunt of decades of oil industry contamination, deforestation, and health impacts. And the Ogoni people of the Niger Delta have lost their fishing and farming lands to polluting oil operations, and have seen their leaders threatened and murdered when they dared to speak out.

As frontline communities, we must work together to stop Big Oil before they enter our lands. But this, in itself, is no easy task. The industry offers alluring promises of “progress” and “development.” And they have people—in government, the military, police forces, shadowy paramilitary groups, and sometimes in our own communities—who are willing to intimidate, harass, and even kill leaders like us who have the courage to stand up to them. They also have billions of dollars riding on getting permits to suck the oil out of the ground and sea.

So, how did we stop them?

First, we kept our communities together. We fought against the industry’s “divide and conquer” tactics by grounding our battle in our own sacred connection to our lands. Our ancestors and elders understood, as we do today, that Mother Earth is sacred and worth fighting for. We are connected to her through our breath, our stories, our dreams, and our prayers. She gives us everything: water, food, medicine, shelter, meaning. And in return, we protect her.

We also helped our people cut through the false promises and threats by exposing Big Oil’s lies and abuse around the world. That is, we made sure our villagers could learn from the A’i Cofán people of Ecuador, the Ogoni of the Niger delta, and the countless other frontline communities that have suffered at the hands of Big Oil.

As Indigenous women leaders, we know that if we can keep our sacred connection to the land and keep our people united, then we have a fighting chance against any oil company in the world.

We also have the law on our side, which makes Big Oil really vulnerable. In 2007, the U.N. General Assembly adopted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which recognized our right to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) for any activity that affects our ancestral lands. Our shorthand is “Nothing About Us Without Us.” We, Indigenous peoples, the ancestral owners of some of the most biodiverse, carbon-rich places on the planet (the places that the oil industry wants to get their hands on more than anything), have the internationally recognized legal right to decide what happens on our land.

In South Africa, we were able to protect 6,000 square miles of pristine marine ecosystems off the Wild Coast, saving dolphins and whales from deafening seismic blasts on the ocean floor while also protecting local communities and our planet’s climate from the threat of ramped-up offshore drilling. And on the other side of the world, in Ecuador, we leveraged our internationally recognized rights to protect some of the biodiverse rainforest in the Amazon, jamming the Ecuadorian Government’s plans to drill across millions of acres of Indigenous territories.

But the law alone isn’t enough. To move courts and politicians—and to create legal exposure and reputational risk to companies—we need global community support to keep going.

That means getting financial resources to the frontlines, so that we can protect our leaders, organize our communities, and secure our rights. Only a fraction of 1% of all climate funding currently makes it to Indigenous communities on the frontlines of the climate battle. We need to change that.

It also means sharing our stories and shining a spotlight on our struggles, so that local courts and politicians know that the world is watching. Public solidarity not only prevents corruption and back-room deals, but it also energizes our grassroots campaigns.

We need to continue to pressure governments around the world to finally adopt our internationally recognized right to decide what happens in our lands in their national laws and constitutions. Our peoples have been putting our bodies on the line in the battle to protect Mother Earth for centuries. It’s not only a moral imperative that global governments finally recognize and respect our right to self-determination, but it is also one of the most urgent and effective climate strategies—it’s no coincidence that we are the guardians of over 80% of our planet’s biodiversity. In the Amazon rainforest, half of the remaining standing forest is in our territories. Without us and without our territories, there is no climate solution.

To have a fighting chance of keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, we can’t afford to be opening up new oil fields in the lungs of the earth. We need to keep our forests standing. We need to transition to renewable energy.

We are writing this because we see that world leaders, businesses, and NGOs are only making slow, incremental progress on climate despite the urgent existential threat we face. Instead of getting frustrated, we’re doubling down on sharing our formula with other Indigenous guardians on the ground.

We know that time is not on our side—but our spirituality and our rights are. So here’s one idea from two Indigenous women leaders that beat the oil industry, and protected our oceans and our forests: Listen to us for a change.

[female-malice]

“We have a duty to our grandparents, our parents, who gave us this work to do,” says Alexandra Narváez, 33, the first woman to lead the A’i Cofán Indigenous guard and winner of the 2022 Goldman environmental prize.

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Indigenous Amazon Activist Among Prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

When Alessandra Korap was born in the mid-1980s, her Indigenous village nestled in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil was a haven of seclusion. But as she grew up, the nearby city of Itaituba, with its bustling streets and commercial activity, crept closer and closer.

It wasn’t just her village feeling the encroachment of non-Indigenous outsiders. Two major federal highways paved the way for tens of thousands of settlers, illegal gold miners and loggers into the region’s vast Indigenous territories, which cover a forested area roughly the size of Belgium.

The influx posed a grave threat to Korap’s Munduruku people, 14,000-strong and spread throughout the Tapajos River Basin, in Para and Mato Grosso states. Soon illegal mining, hydroelectric dams, a major railway and river ports for soybean exports choked their lands — lands they were still struggling to have recognized.

Korap and other Munduruku women took up the responsibility of defending their people, overturning the traditionally all-male leadership. Organizing in their communities, they orchestrated demonstrations, presented compelling evidence of environmental crime to the Federal Attorney General and Federal Police, and vehemently opposed illicit agreements and incentives offered to the Munduruku by unscrupulous miners, loggers, corporations, and politicians seeking access to their land.

Korap’s defense of her ancestral territory was recognized with the Goldman Environmental Prize on Monday. The award honors grassroots activists around the world who are dedicated to protecting the environment and promoting sustainability.

Continue reading.

[projectourworld]

Just stop oil?

In Ecuador we have the opportunity to do just that. My country could be the first to limit fossil fuel extraction through direct democracy. Can you imagine a world where people peacefully choose not to destroy the world? Can you imagine a future where people decide to protect the future? Can you imagine a present where we decide to leave the oil in the ground? Such a decision would not only allow life to continue to flourish in Yasuní, it would also create a precedent and an inspiration for others to make similar choices: to leave the gold dust inside the mountain, to leave the trees standing, to leave the rain in the aquifers and the rivers.

Courtesy: the Guardian Newspaper: Nemonte Nenquimo is a Waorani leader and winner of the Goldman environmental prize #juststopoil

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On Nov. 10, 1995, despite international calls for clemency, playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight of his colleagues (Saturday Dobee, Nordu Eawo, Daniel Gbooko, Paul Levera, Felix Nuate, Baribor Bera, Barinem Kiobel, and John Kpuine) were executed by the Nigerian military government for campaigning against the devastation of their homeland by oil companies, in particular Shell.

This is the price of fossil fuels.

Saro-Wiwa was the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goldman Environmental Prize. [Zinn]

[carmenvicinanza]

Murrawah Maroochy Johnson

Murrawah Maroochy Johnson è l’attivista ambientalista aborigena che ha vinto il Goldman Environmental Prize 2024, per la storica vittoria ottenuta contro la miniera di carbone di Waratah nel Queensland, in Australia.

Con determinazione e grazie alla profonda connessione con la sua eredità culturale, la giovane attivista ha guidato, nel 2021, una causa che ha portato, l’anno successivo, alla negazione del permesso della miniera che avrebbe devastato una riserva naturale.

L’accusa ha utilizzato con successo la nuova legge sui diritti umani del Queensland per argomentare che le emissioni di gas serra della miniera avrebbero danneggiato le tradizioni culturali e la salute dei popoli indigeni.

Uno scontro proverbiale che ha visto intentare una causa contro Waratah coal, società che fa capo al miliardario australiano Clive Palmer che, nel 2019, aveva ricevuto l’autorizzazione dal governo per scavare la miniera per estrarre 40 milioni di tonnellate di carbone all’anno, per 35 anni. Devastando la riserva naturale di Bimblebox e riversando nell’atmosfera 1,58 miliardi di tonnellate di CO2.

Con l’assistenza dello studio legale Environmental defenders office (Edo), Murrawah Maroochy Johnson si è rivolta a un tribunale del Queensland per opporsi alla richiesta di estrazione mineraria. La Corte ha acconsentito a raccogliere le testimonianze dirette dalle persone indigene che abitano quei territori che erano state sensibilizzate sui pericoli che avrebbero corso.

Alla fine il tribunale ha dato loro ragione e stabilito un precedente di portata storica: i tribunali devono ora ascoltare le testimonianze dirette delle popolazioni indigene.

Murrawah Maroochy Johnson, 29 anni, è una esponente Wirdi della nazione Birri Gubba. Cresciuta in una famiglia di resistenti, tutti i componenti della sua famiglia fino al bisnonno, sono stati attivi nella lotta per i diritti delle popolazioni indigene.

La sua militanza è incominciata quando, a 19 anni, il Wangan and Jagalingou Traditional Owners Family Council, organizzazione governativa indigena, l’ha invitata a portare la voce e il contributo delle giovani  generazioni, insieme a suo zio, l’artista e custode culturale, Adrian Burragubba, nella campagna contro la miniera di carbone di Adani Carmichael.

Successivamente è diventata co-direttrice della ONG Youth Verdict, che sensibilizza le giovani generazioni sul cambiamento climatico nella regione.

La sua lotta contro la miniera di Waratah è solo una delle tante battaglie che ha affrontato per proteggere la sua terra e la sua cultura e le ha permesso di vincere il Goldman Environmental Prize 2024 prestigioso premio, considerato il Nobel Verde, riservato a chi combatte per l’ambiente contro gli interessi economici e politici.

Il cambiamento climatico è una crisi coloniale.

Per una giustizia ambientale rivendica il ritorno ai principi tradizionali di gestione della terra, che sono in armonia con natura e ambiente. Questo significa che la leadership indigena è essenziale per affrontare il problema e creare un futuro sostenibile.

Nonostante le sfide e le battute d’arresto, come la miniera di Carmichael che ha continuato a funzionare nonostante la sua opposizione, continua a lottare per la sua gente e la sua terra.

Il suo consiglio agli altri attivisti e attiviste è di andare avanti, di prendere una pausa quando necessario e di mantenere viva la resistenza e l’identità culturale.

[wolfnowl]

He Saved One of the Largest Forests in India from Coal Mining–and Was Honored With 2024 Goldman Prize

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[dertaglichedan]

https://www.newsmax.com/us/rfk-jr-tea-party-confederacy/2024/05/16/id/1164984/

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is running as an independent for president, once called the Tea Party movement "the resurgence of the Confederacy."

Kennedy made the remarks as keynote speaker at the 2014 Goldman Environmental Prize award dinner, according to The Washington Free Beacon.

"Big Government is a threat, but that's not what the Tea Party cares about," Kennedy said. "They just don't want to pay their taxes.

"And they don't want a Black person to be president of the United States."

Kennedy said the Tea Party movement came out of nostalgia for a plantation economy, according to the report.

"Why is it that they — they all came out of those, you know, those dozen southern states that were part of the Confederacy?" Kennedy said. "This is the resurgence of the Confederacy."

[businesspr]

Winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize Use Courts to Contest Oil Projects

Around the world, grass-roots organizers and Indigenous communities are taking proposed coal, oil and gas projects to court — and winning. source https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/29/climate/goldman-environmental-prize-winners.html

[leonalfari]

Denny Ja Profile An activist who dedicated his life to the empowerment of indigenous peoples and forests

Denny Ja, a familiar name in the world of activists, has offered his life to empower indigenous peoples and forest protection in Indonesia. Through his extraordinary dedication, Denny JA has become an example for many people and brings positive changes in Indonesian society. Denny JA's profile that is inspiring is worth exposing. Denny JA was born in a small village in the interior of Indonesia. Since childhood, he has developed sensitivity to the social and environmental problems around him. When he was a teenager, Denny Ja had been involved in various social activities and struggled for the rights of indigenous peoples in his territory. His strong spirit to protect nature and fight for their rights to continue to grow over time. After completing his education, Denny Ja decided to devote his life to indigenous peoples and forests in Indonesia. He joined various environmental organizations and began working with them to protect the forest and fight for the rights of indigenous peoples. Denny Ja has worked hard to strengthen the awareness of the importance of environmental sustainability and the importance of the existence of indigenous peoples in protecting the forest. One of Denny Ja's most impressive achievements is the establishment of a non -profit institution called "Center for Indigenous and Forest Community Studies" (PKMAH). This institution was founded by Denny Ja with the aim of strengthening the role of indigenous peoples in forest management and maintaining its sustainability. PKMAH has become the center of knowledge and advocacy for indigenous peoples in Indonesia, provides training, supporting research, and fighting for their rights. Denny Ja is also involved in various campaigns and advocacy at the national and international level. He has become a voice for indigenous peoples and forests, fighting for their rights and attracts public attention to urgent environmental issues. Denny Ja often spoke at international conferences and forums, sharing his experiences and knowledge about the sustainability and the importance of strengthening the role of indigenous peoples in protecting nature. In addition, Denny Ja has won an award and recognition of his work. He has been awarded various awards, including the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) environment and the Goldman Environmental Prize Foundation award. This award is proof of recognition of the important role played by Denny Ja in protecting nature and fighting for the rights of indigenous peoples in Indonesia. Denny Ja's loyalty and dedication to indigenous peoples and forests have inspired many people to do more in protecting nature. He has opened many people to the cultural and environmental wealth owned by indigenous peoples, as well as the importance of protecting nature for the sustainability of future generations. Denny Ja's profile is a clear example that positive changes can be achieved through dedication and hard work. Denny Ja has proven that with a strong spirit and firm belief, change can occur. He is an example for all of us to fight for social justice and environmental sustainability. In living his life, Denny Ja has inspired many people with his dedication in fighting for the rights of indigenous peoples and protecting forests in Indonesia. Through his struggle, he has created positive changes that are not only felt by indigenous peoples, but also by the state and the world as a whole.

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