Category

Women in forestry

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Wangari Muta Maathai

Kenyan environmentalist and politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 (1940–2011)

Chipko movement

Indian forest conservation movement

Green Belt Movement

Indigenous environmental organization grassroots movement in Nairobi, Kenya

Christine Buisman

Dutch botanist (1900-1936)

Elizabeth A. Widjaja

Researcher, Bamboo Expert from Indonesia | Indonesian botanist and botanical collector

Anoka Primrose Abeyrathne

Sri Lankan eco-social entrepreneur/environmentalist

Kollakkayil Devaki Amma

Indian forester

Christine Ouinsavi

beninese scientist and politician

Marie Beatrice Schol-Schwarz

Dutch phytopathologist (1898-1969)

Ruth Florence Allen

American botanist, phytopathologist and mycologist (1879-1963)

Nalini M. Nadkarni

American Ecologist

Afwork Gebrekirstos

scientist, tropical forest ecologist, professor

Mary Sutherland

New Zealand forester and botanist (1893-1955)

American scientist (1885-1970)

Margaret D. Lowman

American ecologist

Thyra von Westernhagen

Hanoverian princess

German dendrologist (1900-1988)