Isabel Flick
Tenacious campaigner who fought segregation in Australia
Tenacious campaigner who fought segregation in Australia
As a sea-level researcher, Nicole Hernandez Hammer has studied how the cities and regions most vulnerable to the effects of climate change and sea-level rise also have large Hispanic populations — something she learned firsthand growing up in South Florida.
Anjali Sharma’s passion for climate justice goes beyond her concern for the environment and includes supporting First Nations people, racial equality, gender equality and marginalised communities.
Beth’s involvement in the environment movement came through defence of Western Australia’s Karri forests against woodchipping. In 1975, she became the first secretary of the activist Campaign to Save Native Forests and soon afterwards, the Co-convenor of the more science-based South-West Forests Defence Foundation.
Jean Taylor was generally described in her lifetime as an entomologist but, although that was the source of her expertise, perhaps today she might be considered to have been an applied biologist or bio-engineer.
In 1896, co-founded the Massachusetts Audubon Society
Karen Dorn Steele is an environmental journalist best known for breaking the story of nuclear experiments causing potential public health damage at the Hanford Nuclear Site.
American suffragist and environmentalist
American defender of clean water and inspiring environmentalist.
As an avid naturalist and talented self-taught botanist, she convinced the Save the Dunes Council to make the pivotal purchase of Cowles Bog in 1953.