Demetrio do Amaral de Carvalho

Demetrio do Amaral de Carvalho (born 1966 in Portuguese Timor ) is an environmental activist from East Timor.

Life

Carvalho grew up in a village south of Vila de Liquiçá. 1975 his father was murdered by members of the leftist FRETILIN. That same year, Indonesia occupied East Timor. Carvalho hid for four years in the woods. While still a student he began in the East Timorese resistance to work. Later he joined the Resistência Nacional dos Estudantes de Timor-Leste RENETIL ( German National Resistance of students from Timor -Leste ), East Timor's leading student resistance movement. Carvalho was involved in the publication of the first magazines RENETIL. A week after the Santa Cruz massacre in 1991 Carvalho was arrested by the Indonesian police and detained for three weeks without trial. Reason was his participation in a protest in Jakarta. Later he studied in Indonesia ecology and got a degree.

Carvalho founded in 1998 Haburas Foundation, East Timor's only non -governmental organization for environmental protection, shortly before the departure of the Indonesians from the country. Haburas means " to make something green and fresh " in Tetum. The organization provides education and support programs for the creation of livelihood for the population. It succeeded the concept of environmental protection in the Constitution of East Timor to bring ( section 61 ). Much applause was given the organization for its environmental programs that follow the traditional rules of Tara Bandu that reflect the ecological knowledge Timor.

In 2004, the Goldman Environmental Prize Carvalho.

Publications

  • Lisa R. Palmer, Demetrio do Amaral de Carvalho: Nation building and resource management: The politics of 'nature' in Timor Leste. Geoforum 39: 1321-1332, 2008.
  • Demetrio do Amaral de Carvalho ( ed.): Local Knowledge of Timor. Jakarta: UNESCO, 2011.
  • Sandy Lund, OT, I. Bryceson, D. de Carvalho, Rio N., J. da Silva and MI Silva: Assessing Environmental Needs and Priorities in East Timor: Final Report. Dili, Trondheim: UNDP Dili and Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, 2001.
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