Nemonte Nenquimo

Gebundenes Buch

We Will Not Be Saved

A memoir of hope and resistance in the Amazon rainforest (Reese Witherspoon's Book Club Pick)

Beschreibung

The first memoir by an indigenous tribal leader in the Amazon, who fought Big Oil to preserve her tribe's territories, and thousands of acres of pristine rainforest.

Autor

Nemonte Nenquimo, a Waorani leader, was born in Ecuador's Amazon, one of the most bio-diverse and threatened rainforests on the planet. She is the co-founder of both the Indigenous-led non-profit Ceibo Alliance and its partner organization, Amazon Frontlines. Nemonte led her people in an historic legal victory against the oil industry, protecting half-a-million acres of rainforest and setting a precedent for Indigenous rights across the region. Her leadership has been widely recognized; in 2020, she won the Goldman Environmental Prize for Central and South America and was named to the BBC 100 Women and TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World. Mitch Anderson is co-founder and Executive Director of Amazon Frontlines, a non-profit organisation based in the Upper Amazon, which defends Indigenous peoples' rights to land, life, and cultural survival. In 2011, he moved to Ecuador's northern Amazon to start a grassroots clean water project with Indigenous communities living downriver from contaminating oil operations. Through building more than 1,000 clean water systems in over 70 villages, Mitch supported the formation of the Ceibo Alliance, an Indigenous-led non-profit that won the prestigious UN Equator Prize and whose victories for the Amazon rainforest have inspired millions worldwide. Amazon Frontlines was awarded the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, the world's largest annual humanitarian award presented to nonprofit organizations, in 2024.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Headline Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 592g
• ISBN-13: 9781472289247
• ISBN-10: 1472289242
• Artikelnr.: 62916269

Rezensionen

If you want to understand the climate crisis and do something about it, read this book. Nemonte's writing is as provocative as it is inspiring, a heroine speaking her truth which
is exactly what we need to hear. Had we listened long ago to these voices we wouldn't be in the eye of the storm now.

EMMA THOMPSON, Actor and Writer