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{{About|a Sicilian conservationist|the Italian athlete Anna Giordano Bruno|Anna Giordano Bruno}} |
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'''Anna Giordano''' (born in 1965<ref>"Giordano, now 35" says [http://www.time.com/time/reports/environment/heroes/heroesgallery/0,2967,giordano,00.html this year-2000 article on her].</ref>) is a [[Sicily|Sicilian]] [[conservationist]]. A leader of Sicily's [[World Wide Fund for Nature]], she won the [[Goldman Prize]] in 1998.<ref name="goldman">[http://www.goldmanprize.org/node/105 The page on Anna Giordano] in Goldman Prize's web site.</ref> She's known because of her work for the protection of wild birds and against the damages that the bridge over the [[Strait of Messina]] would cause in the environment.<ref name="frontline">[http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/fellows/sicily0404/7.html Article on Anna Giordano] in FRONTLINE/World web site.</ref> |
'''Anna Giordano''' (born in 1965<ref>"Giordano, now 35" says [http://www.time.com/time/reports/environment/heroes/heroesgallery/0,2967,giordano,00.html this year-2000 article on her].</ref>) is a [[Sicily|Sicilian]] [[conservation movement|conservationist]]. A leader of Sicily's [[World Wide Fund for Nature]], she won the [[Goldman Prize]] in 1998.<ref name="goldman">[http://www.goldmanprize.org/node/105 The page on Anna Giordano] in Goldman Prize's web site.</ref> She's known because of her work for the protection of wild birds and against the damages that the bridge over the [[Strait of Messina]] would cause in the environment.<ref name="frontline">[http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/fellows/sicily0404/7.html Article on Anna Giordano] in FRONTLINE/World web site.</ref> |
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She joined the [[Italian League for Bird Protection]] (LIPU) at the age of six. In 1981, after seeing 17 birds shot out of the sky by [[Poaching|poacher]]s shooting from cement bunkers, she committed herself to the fight against poachers. Challenging men in the Sicilian male-dominated society where there was a long tradition of hunting migrating [[Bird of prey|raptors]], created open hostility toward Giordano. When she began badgering police, forest rangers and local authorities to do something about the illegal killing, she was not taken seriously. But she persisted and, in 1984, began organizing camps of young people from all throughout the world who would gather each spring to observe the migrations and inform police when they saw poachers at work.<ref name="goldman" /><ref name="TimeHeroesForThePlanet">Sancton, Thomas, [http://www.time.com/time/reports/environment/heroes/heroesgallery/0,2967,giordano,00.html "Anna Giordano — Making the Skies Safer"], Heroes for The Planet gallery in Time.com web site.</ref> |
She joined the [[Italian League for Bird Protection]] (LIPU) at the age of six. In 1981, after seeing 17 birds shot out of the sky by [[Poaching|poacher]]s shooting from cement bunkers, she committed herself to the fight against poachers. Challenging men in the Sicilian male-dominated society where there was a long tradition of hunting migrating [[Bird of prey|raptors]], created open hostility toward Giordano. When she began badgering police, forest rangers and local authorities to do something about the illegal killing, she was not taken seriously. But she persisted and, in 1984, began organizing camps of young people from all throughout the world who would gather each spring to observe the migrations and inform police when they saw poachers at work.<ref name="goldman" /><ref name="TimeHeroesForThePlanet">Sancton, Thomas, [http://www.time.com/time/reports/environment/heroes/heroesgallery/0,2967,giordano,00.html "Anna Giordano — Making the Skies Safer"], Heroes for The Planet gallery in Time.com web site.</ref> |
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Anna Giordano (born in 1965[1]) is a Sicilian conservationist. A leader of Sicily's World Wide Fund for Nature, she won the Goldman Prize in 1998.[2] She's known because of her work for the protection of wild birds and against the damages that the bridge over the Strait of Messina would cause in the environment.[3]
She joined the Italian League for Bird Protection (LIPU) at the age of six. In 1981, after seeing 17 birds shot out of the sky by poachers shooting from cement bunkers, she committed herself to the fight against poachers. Challenging men in the Sicilian male-dominated society where there was a long tradition of hunting migrating raptors, created open hostility toward Giordano. When she began badgering police, forest rangers and local authorities to do something about the illegal killing, she was not taken seriously. But she persisted and, in 1984, began organizing camps of young people from all throughout the world who would gather each spring to observe the migrations and inform police when they saw poachers at work.[2][4]
The hunters retaliated with threats and intimidation. In 1986 she narrowly escaped the firebombing of her car, and later poachers broke into her house and mailed her a dead falcon with a threatening note. After this and another incident where she and a group of young people monitoring the migration were shot at, local law enforcement officers began to aid Giordano in her efforts to stop rampant poaching.[2][4]
She declared that in 1984, during the first camp, they counted about 3,100 raptors and storks, and 1,100 shots — and in 2000, just a little bit less than 35,000 raptors and storks, and 5 shots.[5]
References
- ^ "Giordano, now 35" says this year-2000 article on her.
- ^ a b c The page on Anna Giordano in Goldman Prize's web site.
- ^ Article on Anna Giordano in FRONTLINE/World web site.
- ^ a b Sancton, Thomas, "Anna Giordano — Making the Skies Safer", Heroes for The Planet gallery in Time.com web site.
- ^ A letter by Anna Giordano, to Brian Horkley, published in the September 2005 issue of Ali, a publication of the British society of LIPU supporters.
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