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 From Sierra magazine: September/October 2007:
Sierra's senior writer Marilyn Berlin Snell traveled to Olancho, a lawless logging region known as the Texas of Honduras, to meet Father José Andrés Tamayo Cortez, who has an international reputation for standing up to the logging interests, legal and illegal, that have been chainsawing their way through mountains rich in pine and tropical hardwoods.
Father Tamayo and a growing number of Catholic clergy throughout Latin America have come to see protection of the land and water as God's work, their duty to the region's 500 million Catholics.
 A small farming and fishing community fighting to keep Shell from destroying their livelihoods. Now where have we heard that story before?
It seems that the corporate heads of Shell have learned very little from the company’s horrendous mistakes in Africa, particularly the part about the importance of cooperating with local communities who might be impacted by their polluting natural resource exploitation.
Everyday, people and communities around the world endure serious human rights abuses while defending nature and stopping pollution. Staying informed of and responding to current events surrounding human rights and the environment is a simple way to start solving this problem. To read articles and alerts about these issues, the atrocities behind them, and the courageous activities of those speaking out against them, visit our news page.
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