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Feb 10, 2005

"It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of something else." --Maimonides circa 1190

Madidi National Park

For over 20 years, Rosa Maria Ruiz has been a one-woman army in the creation and defending of Bolivia’s Madidi National Park, a preserve roughly the size of New Jersey. Through her organization, EcoBolivia, she tirelessly battles lumber companies, land speculators, commercial hunters, oil interest, dam projects, and drug dealers to save the world’s most biologically diverse region from annihilation so that it can nourish the bodies and souls of future generations.