Environmentalists

Women have been visible figures leading the environmentalist movement in many of its aspects. Rachel Carson, Dian Fossey, Jane Goodall are well known for their observations about the natural world and their contributions to saving a world that is safe for people and their primate cousins to live in.

Dian Fossey biography: a profile of Dian Fossey, primatologist and pioneer woman scientist. Her studies of mountain gorillas have helped science to better understand ape behavior, and may have preserved the gorillas from extinction.

Biography of Margaret Mead, anthropologist and writer, whose work more recently has come under question.

She was a key figure in saving the Florida Everglades, among her environmentalist activities, and she also supported woman suffrage in Florida.

An activist in the conservation movement, her attention to birds and her critique of the Audubon Society earned her this place in the "Ecology Hall of Fame."

Her non-violent defense of redwood trees warranted her entry into the "Ecology Hall of Fame." Brief story and image.

How to find out more about ecofeminist perspectives: a list of 10 books about ecofeminism.