Protecting Cleopatra’s Needle With KM Reyes

KM is a community organizer and conservationist based on Palawan island in the Philippines. She is co-executive director and co-founder of the environmental nongovernment organization Centre for Sustainability PH (CS). CS spearheaded the declaration of Cleopatra’s Needle Critical Habitat, protecting 41,350 hectares of some of the Philippines’ last remaining primary forest in Puerto Princesa, an area rich in incredible biodiversity of plants and animals. Her work at CS is driven by the belief that by connecting communities with their immediate and surrounding environments, we can understand and find sustainable solutions to our planet’s greatest environmental challenges.