To protect the Amazon we need to protect the women taking care of it | Tanja Lieuw | TEDxAmazônia

[music] [music] to everyone. For me, it's a great privilege to be here among all of you in this gateway to the Amazon region. When I was being asked for this opportunity, it was both a moment of immense pride being representing Surinam, but also anxiousness with truly very nervous as you can see.But also, I remember this feeling of anxiousness and fear of the unknown. When I was 18 years old, I left home from Surinam to study far away in Europe um to start a university. That fear of the unknown, that leap o ...