“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” — Arundhati Roy
CELEBRATING WOMEN ON THE FRONTLINES OF ANIMAL ADVOCACY
FEATURE
LEK CHAILERT
Sangduen “Lek” Chailert has come to be known throughout Thailand and the rest of the world as “the elephant whisperer”. She has devoted her life to ending the abusive use of elephants in tourism and logging industries and is the founder of Elephant Nature Park, a 250 acre sanctuary for hundreds of rescued elephants and other animals.
Directed by Kelly Guerin
RECENT Contemporary Women
Ondine Sherman
Ondine Sherman is a tireless and trailblazing animal advocate. In 2004, Ondine teamed up with her father Brian Sherman to co-found Voiceless, which has since grown to become one of the most prominent animal protection and animal law organizations in Australia.
Gail Eisnitz
If you want to understand what it’s really like behind the closed doors of America’s factory farms and slaughterhouses, ask Gail Eisnitz.
Dr. Charu Chandrasekera
On a warm October day in Halifax, Dr. Charu Chandrasekera is attending the inaugural Canadian Animal Conference, to speak on a panel entitled, ‘Ending Animal Experimentation: New Advances.’ That same weekend, coincidentally, the Canadian Cancer Society’s CIBC Run For The Cure is also taking place, to raise funds for breast cancer research. As Dr. Chandrasekera and I sit in a coffee shop to discuss her work, participants jog by and she quips: “I wish I could tell them they are not running for a cure. They are running from a cure.”
RECENT HISTORICAL Women
Rosalie Little Thunder
"When we talk about buffalo people, we're not talking about buffalo and Lakota separately. It's all one.""We live in a time when how to be a good human being in the natural world is diminished," wrote Rosalie Little Thunder late one night in May, 2002, as she sat at...
Louise (“Lizzy”) Lind af Hageby
"Is it nothing to you all ye that pass by?" Lind af Hageby, centre front. The other women in this photograph are: Mrs. Clinton Pichney Farrell, Mrs. L.B. Henderson, Mrs. Florence Pell Waring, Mrs. Caroline E. White, and Mrs. R.G. Ingersol. I n July 1909...
Ruth Harrison
“Most people… tend to be ignorant of the processes by which food reaches their table, or if not ignorant they find it more comfortable to forget.” M any activists can point to a single moment that changed their lives—a photograph, a movie, a conversation, or a chance...
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- Is a change-maker, a leader, and is someone who is breaking new ground in the world of animal advocacy
- Works tirelessly to make the world a better place for animals
- Inspires others to try and make a difference
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