Anita Studer (born February 26, 1944) is a Swiss-born accountant, ornithologist, conservationist and ecologist.
The forest was being cleared to allow the raising of cattle and planting of sugar cane.
[4] Her lobbying efforts resulted in 4,500 hectares of the Pedra Talhada forest being declared a federal reserve.
[5] Her initiatives in Brazil were the subject of a 1996 documentary "Mother Forest and the Street Children", written and produced by David Martinez of Dreamtime Productions and seen on the Discovery Channel.
[6] Studer received a Rolex Award for Enterprise in 1990 for her environmental work.