Southern Blue Ridge Fire Learning Network

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The Southern Blue Ridge Fire Learning Network engages multiple federal, state and private land management agencies in a collaborative effort to enhance the capacity to implement ecological fire management in the Southern Blue Ridge ecoregion. The project area cover 2.7 million acres of land managed by partners in four states — Georgia, North Carolina, South ...learn more

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Created: Dec 11, 2006
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Martha Isabel Ruiz Corzo

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Email: martha [at] wggan.org
 
Address: Jalpan
Mexico
 
Member Since: December 11, 2006
 
Local Time: Sat Nov 28 20:16:12
 

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Martha “Pati” Ruiz Corzo is a recognized leader for building a bottom-up civil conservation movement in central Mexico. Located in the Sierra Gorda mountains, Pati and her husband began organizing concerned citizens for a regional rescue program based on environmental education, economic development, forestry management, and community development specifically directed to women who are the heads of household in the rural extreme poverty communities due to high rates of migration of working age men to the USA.

Through Pati´s leadership, Sierra Gorda became the first natural protected area in the country to be designated in response to a bottom-up consensus. Then-president Ernesto Zedillo designated her the federal director of the new Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve in order to guarantee the involvement of the local communities which number over 600 with a population of 100,000 in a surface area of 1 million acres.

As a social entrepreneur recognized by the Ashoka: Innovators for the Public since ´96, the Schwab foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and the World Economic Forum since 2001, and the Rolex Prize for Enterprise in 2002, and on-going accompaniment of this initiative in the region since 1987, Pati is the moral leader of a widespread grassroots movement for almost 20 years, defending the integrity of this mega-diverse region and actively implementing alternatives for social and economic development towards regional sustainable development.

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ecoentrepreneur over 2 years ago
Pati, her family and the entirety of the Grupo Ecologico Sierra Gorda and the communities in the area are all to be commended for the fantastic work they have done in Mexico. Andale!!!
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