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Alessandra Korap is one of six recipients of the 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize for grassroots activism.
When Alessandra Korap was born in the mid-1980s, her Indigenous village, nestled in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, was a haven of seclusion. But as she grew up, the nearby city of Itaituba crept closer and closer, with its bustling streets and commercial activity.
It was not just her village feeling the encroachment of non-Indigenous outsiders. Two major federal highways paved the…
