Third-round winner

Plants, animals, and people

Judy Logback works to protect not only plant and animal biodiversity, but also the human inhabitants of one of Earth's most biologically diverse regions, the Upper Napo River area of Ecuador.

Here the foothills of the Andes Mountains and the Amazon Basin ecosystems overlap. And it is here that residents of Quechua (also spelled Quichua and Kichwa) villages make their livelihoods in close cooperation with their environment. Logback, a 1995 cum laude graduate of Beloit College in Wisconsin, has formed the Callari Cooperative with families of the Upper Napo, and now the cooperative has a thriving business selling seeds and traditional crafts that are fashioned from the sustainable use of more than fifty plant species.

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