In the 14 years that she has been an active member of RIC, she has visited
more than 20 countries on rainforest issues and given hundreds of
presentations, concerts and workshops to raise awareness of the plight of
the world's rainforests and indigenous peoples.

Much of her activist work has taken place in Japan where she first visited
in 1989. She initiated the formation of a national network of Rainforest
Action Groups that are still campaigning to reduce Japan's consumption of
tropical timber.

Against the massive destruction of rain forest and other environmental
problems, her resistance takes the form of song. In 1998 she made a music
CD, “Voices for the forest” in Japan, whose sales support the
international projects of the Rainforest Information Centre.

In July 1999, Anja established the Sloth Club with Keibo Oiwa, an
anthropology professor in Yokohama, and Ryuichi Nakamura, a president of
“Organic Coffee.Co”.

Anja says:
If we consider that we, as human beings, are a part of the mother earth, we
can begin to envision a lifestyle in harmony with nature. I now living
simply in Ecuador and surrounded by joy and love.

She is expecting her second child in July. As a mother and an
environmental activist, she is provides us a model for a sustainable
future.

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