A blind "barefoot lawyer" who is energizing the grass roots and, with many others, in challenging Chinese local authorities to obey the laws of the state

An environmentalist whose passion is to "heal nature" and writes prolifically about the richness and variety of China's wildlife and animal habitats

Japan’s leading desert agriculturist who applied his knowledge to China and organized thousands of Japanese volunteers to plant trees, alongside Chinese volunteers, as part of his Project Green Hope

A Chinese historian best known for his work as an environmental activist who established the Friends of Nature in 1994 as the first environmental non-governmental organization

A lawyer by profession and a committed environmentalist by choice who made the fight to protect India's environment his unending mission