Conclusion: Walking with Social-Environmental Activists

I came to Southern Bahia to try to understand the individual stories and the collective story of this region and what it has to show us about the world at large. I continue to return. This time I am accompanied not by my children but by a group of college students and other professors. We have traveled from the Amazon Forest to the Atlantic Forest of Bahia in an effort to understand the complexities of conservation, development, and social movements in globally important landscapes. I take the familiar flight into Ilhéus, as always looking down as we approach to get