From Peru to Tanzania

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The New Environmentalists share a common goal, safeguarding the Earth’s natural resources from exploitation and pollution. The program features portraits of six passionate and dedicated activists around the globe who have placed themselves in harm’s way to battle intimidating adversaries for environmental justice in their communities. Narrated by Robert Redford, The New Environmentalists illustrates how ordinary people are effecting extraordinary change. This episode profiles community leaders establishing a nature reserve in Puerto Rico’s Northeast Ecological Corridor, leading a student campaign to stop incinerator construction in Baltimore, refusing to sell subsistence farmland to a mining corporation in Peru, claiming land titles for Tanzania’s indigenous nomadic and hunter-gatherer tribes, shutting down a toxic waste dump in Slovakia, and going undercover to expose illegal logging and government corruption in Cambodia.