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Kate Cowle

Kate Cowle was a botanist, naturalist and conservationist active between c1890 and 1916 in Tasmania and Victoria, Australia.

Kate Fitzherbert works for Birds Australia as a fundraiser. Her major interests are in working for habitat protection through purchase of habitat reserves, encouraging community involvement in conservation and monitoring, and growing environmental awareness in rural communities.

Betty Krawczyk

American-Canadian environmentalist

Harriet Nahanee

Pacheedaht activist Harriet Nahanee made headlines in 2006 when the septuagenarian was arrested by Vancouver police protesting a highway expansion that would damage Eagleridge Bluffs land and ecosystems, in preparation for the 2010 Olympics.

Lillian Moyer

Tahltan elder Lillian Moyer was 67 when she was arrested in 2006 in northern British Columbia and a First Nations blockade that had been preventing a mining company from exploring the Todagin Plateau for copper and gold.