![]() we were the first guests to this lodge where everything was made by the community. She was from indigenous peoples in the Bolivian Amazon, had run away to La Paz age 12, finished school and worked her way through university and getting a degree before returning home, persuading her community to refuse a logging contract and instead build an eco-lodge, Sadiri Lodge. A person who changed everything for me was meeting Ruth Alipaz in Bolivia. I have met indigenous peoples everywhere I have travelled and learnt about their work to protect their land and habitats for example by choosing eco-tourism over logging and hunting. I started campaigning against palm oil, GMO, oil and plastic pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss and for the rights of animals and indigenous and local peoples. I was only 8 when I saw that we were destroying habitats, the importance of conservation and working with indigenous peoples who have been care-takers for millennia. Each of these is special to me, not as a number but as a truly fantastic experience. At age 17, I saw a Harpy Eagle in the Brazilian Amazon, which made me become the youngest person to see half the birds in the world. I am a young prominent British Bangladeshi ornithologist, environmentalist, diversity activist as well as a writer, speaker and broadcaster.
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