Words for Vanessa
Homenagens do âmbito profissional
Joint Scholarship program of the University of Wales and CATIE
"CATIE and the University of Wales are working to establish a scholarship to honor this remarkable young professional that will continue her research in the socioeconomics of rural sustainable development, especially in connection with people linked to the forest."
(from the CATIE homenagem to Vanessa, see below)
That this scholarship has been established was announced at the commemorative tree planting in Bangor, Dec. 2006.
Further information about the scholarship
Tributes from CATIE, Costa Rica
Homenagem da CATIE, Centro Agronómico de Investigación y Enseñanza in Costa Rica
English Version
Further voices from CATIE:
- Words from Dietmar Stoian, Vanessa's Ph.D. advisor at CATIE
- Coleção de Homenagens dos amigos e colegas na CATIE, juntadas por Claudia Upegui
- Vanessa Sonhou..., contributed by Olga Marta Corrales, Professor for Environmental Politics at CATIE, Costa Rica (Sept.14, 2006)
Homenagens da Associação para a Conservação da Bacia Amazônica do Peru
Hasta Siempre Nesi (.jpg, 198kb download)
traduzido para Português no Blog do Altino
From CIFOR (Center for International Forestry Research)
A hommage to Vanessa by her colleagues from PEN (Poverty and Environment Network), to which she was contributing with her research work
In remembrance (667 kB)
From the Rainforest Alliance
- In loving memory from the Rainforest Alliance Post to the "Reservas Extrativistas" blog by Katherine Pierront, South America Regional Manager - SmartWood Program
- Note from Katherine Pierront, Rainforest Alliance in Santa Cruz, Bolivia (Sept. 6, 2006)
- Note from Richard Donovan, Rainforest Alliance (Sept. 6, 2006)
Friends & colleagues in Rio Branco (UFAC and UF)
- Note from Foster Brown, Parque Zoobotânico da Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco (Sept. 6, 2006)
- Note from Amy Duchelle, PhD Candidate of the University of Florida in Rio Branco (sept. 6)
- Vanessas backpack..., by Marianne Schmink, Director of the Tropical Conservation and Development Program of the University of Florida (Sept. 9, 2006)
miniMAP derechos humanos
This trinational human rights group within miniMAP was founded in reaction to - amongst others - Vanessa's death. Read about it!
More voices from around the world
- Vanessa A. S. Sequeira: O Acre, o crime e uma paixão, by Valério Gomes (Sept. 10, 2006)
- Note from Chelsia Moraes, Community Base Natural Resource Management Project Unit Officer in São José, Costa Rica (Sept. 5, 2006)
- Note from Jacqueline Vadjunec, PhD Candidate at Clark University (Sept. 5, 2006)
- Nota de um amigo peruano de Vanessa, from Alfredo A. Ríos (Sept. 5, 2006)
- Carta de uma colega amiga and the English version, by Christiane Ehringhaus (Sept. 5, 2006)
- Faltava tão pouco..., de Evandro Ferreira (Sept. 5, 2006)
- Thoughts on the "Dia da Amazônia" and the English version, by Valério Gomes (Sept. 5, 2006)
- Tragédia com Colega Pesquisadora da Rede Valério Gomes and first reactions of RESEX colleagues (Sept. 4, 2006)
- Guerra sem trincheiras, by Mary Allegretti
- amazonia.org.br
Vanessa's last research project
- An abstract posted by Vanessa to the website of Rufford small grants for conservation in 2004
- Vanessa's Research, an abstract posted by Valério Gomes on Sept. 5, 2006