Joan Carling struggles to find the right\nwords to convey how she feels about the fires raging across the Amazon, the\nworld\u2019s biggest rainforest and a vital piece in the complex ecological puzzle\nthat sustains life on earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt really\u2026 it just\nmakes me angry,\u201d the renowned indigenous rights activist said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Carling, a member of\nthe Kankanaey tribe in the Philippines, has spent more than two decades fighting\nfor the rights of indigenous peoples and it distresses her to see what is\nhappening to people who have long sought to protect nature in the Amazon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEven if the numbers\nare low, they are the ones who protect the Amazon,\u201d she said. \u201cIt gives you a sense\nof helplessness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Carling has worked\ntirelessly to ensure the voices of some of the world\u2019s most marginalized and\nisolated people are heard. In 2018, she received the UN Environment\nProgramme\u2019s Champion of the Earth lifetime achievement award, which she\ndedicated to her fellow activists across the world. Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Joan Carling struggles to find the right words to convey how she feels about the fires raging across the Amazon, the world\u2019s biggest rainforest and a vital piece in the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}