This document profiles several important female environmentalists from around the world including Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her reforestation efforts; Rachel Carson, whose work on pesticides inspired the EPA; and Maude Barlow, a Canadian activist working on water issues with the UN. It also discusses American oceanographer Sylvia Earle, British primatologist Jane Goodall, and former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson, who worked to beautify American highways. Overall, the document highlights the contributions of these women to environmental causes like conservation, climate change, and environmental protection efforts.

1. Important
Environmental
Women

2. Wangari Maathai
• First environmentalist
(and first African
woman) to win a
Nobel Peace
Prize, and first East
African woman to
receive a PhD
• Has dedicated her life
to reforestitation
efforts, women´s rights,
and combating poverty

3. Rachel Carson
• Famous for showing
the world how harmful
pesticides can be.
• Her work (and others)
inspired the creation of
the EPA (Environmental
Protection Agency.)

4. Maude Barlow
• Canadian environmental
activist who works for
sustainable water
practices.
• She is now the Senior
Advisor on Water Issues
with the UN.
• Is trying to bring water to
many communities in the
world that don´t have easy
access to it.

5. Isabella Rossellini
• An Italian actress,
author, and
philanthropist.
• She has worked for
many years in
conservation, from the
Wildlife Conservation
Network to the Central
Park Conservancy.
• She tries to bring
environmental issues to
the attention of the public.

6. Eileen Kampakuta & Eileen Wani
Wingfield
• Two Australian
aboriginal
elders that faught
to stop the
Australian
government from
depositing nuclear
waste in the deserts
of southern Australia.
• They successfully
stopped it, and
protected many
animals and plants from
poisoned groundwater.
• They won the Goldman
Environmental Prize in 2003

7. Jane Goodall
• British born environmental scientist who is
considered the world´s
expert on Chimpanzees.
• She has spent 55 years
studying primates and
helping with animal
rights and
environmental
conservation movements.

8. Frances Beinecke
• Frances was the president of
the Natural Resources Defence
Council, and worked with the
organization for more than 30
years.
• She works hard to combat the
negative effects of industry
and is working to make China
a much greener country.

9. Laurie David
• Laurie produced the film An
Inconvienent Truth, a
documentary that showed a
lot of the world about global
warming.
• She works around the United
States with organizations and
universities to stop global
warming.

10. Sylvia A. Earle
• Sylvia is an American
oceanographer and marine
biologist.
• In 1970, she led a team of
women to live in a chamber
underwater for 14 days to
study the aquatic life.
• She wrote for National
Geographic, produced books
and films, and tried to show
the public how pollution was
affecting the ocean.

11. Lady Bird Johnson
• Former U.S. First Lady, she did a lot of work for
the environment during her husband´s
presidency.
• She is famous for the
Highway Beautification
Act, which planted
gardens along the
highways of the U.S.
• She is remembered as one
of the most influential first
ladies in U.S. history.