And people are trying to take that away from them. Big companies are coming and trying to capitalize on ownership and patent seeds, and suggesting that they can cut down forests because they need the wood to build furniture so they can make more profit. This is unacceptable. And women essentially are making it their business to object to that. Women are the whistle blowers when there's any effort to come into a community and destroy the environment.
Women are the ones who organize against it.
They're the leaders of the Greenbelt Movement in Kenya, and forest protection in India. So they're crucial for the environment. And therefore they have to have decision-making power, because they haven't had enough. There are too few involved in making decisions that affect the environment. There have been concrete results.