Pati Ruiz Corzo: protector of Mexico's Sierra Gorda

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She started her own conservation movement — and saved her home in the process.   Meet Pati Ruiz Corzo, protector of Mexico's Sierra Gorda, and winner of the Global Citizen Country Hero Award.

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00:00When we got to Sierra Gorda and leave here with so much beautiness and so much blessings and so

00:07much joy, you definitely understand that there she is to adore, Mother Nature.

00:30We have a small opportunity where the ecosystem still has strength. Like in this place and in

00:43many places where we could regenerate, re-green Mother Earth. I think that that's why we are here.

01:00It's very important to take them in the game because they are the landowners.

01:20Yeah, how do I can protect the forest that doesn't, it's not mine, it's not the Mexico's

01:28federal land, no? And that's why we have been successful.

01:45Mario had asthma and it was one of our main concerns when we came. Yeah, my little one.

01:59But we decided to let the medicines and to move to Sierra Gorda

02:03and from that point in on trust in nature.

02:15The trade is the land use change, yeah? To become pasture lands or try to plant corn

02:41and guard and both activities are out of the natural vocation of those deep slopes.

03:11You just take the cows out and the miracle comes and nature recuperates herself. It's such a master.

03:41So

04:00it's a cosmic law, give, give and give. That's how you grow, yeah? Then generosity becomes something

04:11a tool from your brain, from your heart, from your pocket. You are always ready to serve.

04:17Yeah, with love, love is the magic that is going to keep everything together.

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