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Environmental activists. Chico Mendes Helen Caldicott Ruth Patrick. Chico Mendes. Chico Mendes was Brazilian environmental activist and union leader.
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Environmental activists • Chico Mendes • Helen Caldicott • Ruth Patrick
Chico Mendes • Chico Mendes was Brazilian environmental activist and union leader. • Francisco Alvo Mendes was born in the Acre Province of Brazil in 1944.Mendes sought to defend the forest by political means which involved reaching both the Interior Ministry and the citizens. • Mendes also helped to establish forest reserves. • This automatically made him an enemy of cattle ranchers, especially one Darli Alves da Silva.
Chico Mendes • Other local ranchers, are still being investigated for possible involvement in Mendes’ premature death. • He worked to keep tropical rain forest intact; • He also worked for sustainable harvest that would forest and defend the environment as a whole. • In 1988, Mendes was assassinated. • Massive protests followed, forcing the government to investigate and eventually to arrest Darli da Silva, his son Darci Pereia, and their ranch hand, Jerdeir Pereia.
Helen Caldicott • Helen Caldicott was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1938. • She attended the university of Adelaid Medical School earning bachelor of medicine and surgery degrees. • Helen Caldicott practiced medicine in Adelaid • She also spent time at Harvard Medical School, but returned to Australia where she set up a clinic for cystic fibrosis .
Helen Caldicott • Caldicott has led several successful environmental campaigns. • In the 1970s she worked to ban atmospheric nuclear testing in the South Pacific. • In 1997, Caldicott and her husband worked at the children Hospital Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, she was the co-founder and president of Physician for social responsibility.
Helen Caldicott • She resigned because her beliefs were often too radical for this increasingly moderate organization. During her term, however she became a symbol of composition to nuclear power. • Caldicott has written three books: “Nuclear Madness”; “What You Can Do” and “Missile” about pollution and ozone layer depletion. • She also advocates international agreement and control of natural resources
Ruth Pactrick • Patrick was born in Kansas City in 1907. She developed an interest in the microscopic organisms in water from trips to the countryside as a young girl. She attended Coker College in Hartsville, South Carolina, where she majored in botany; she then earned a doctoral degree from the University of Virginia. In her later life, she has received honorary degrees from other institutions, including Princeton University. • Patrick was one of the founders of limnology: the study of biological, physical, and chemical conditions of freshwater. She herself worked in this field, studying diatoms, food of freshwater organisms. Patrick developed the diameter, which measures the levels of such organisms in water and can determine the amount of pollution present. She also wrote the book Diatoms of the United States.
Ruth Patrick • Patrick became involved in environmental politics and helped develop the United States government's environmental policy. She also worked for the Department of the Interior and was a member of many committees. • Patrick was the first woman chairperson of the board of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. She is a member of numerous organizations, and she has received many awards, including the $150,000 Alice Tyler Ecology Award. She remains a strong advocate of conservation and continues to look for solutions to biospheric pollution.
Work done by: • Rita Beato nº1 • Andreia Santos nº2 • Teresa Maia nº24
