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defensoría ambiental

English translation: environmental advocacy

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Spanish term or phrase:defensoría ambiental
English translation:environmental advocacy
Entered by: Taña Dalglish

13:50 Mar 7, 2021
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
International Org/Dev/Coop / Work areas
Spanish term or phrase: defensoría ambiental
Actividades Extractivas

Nuestro enfoque de trabajo está vinculado con el monitoreo de procesos concesionarios y planes de manejo e impacto socioambientales (priorizando (áreas protegidas), siendo nuestro fin la **defensoría ambiental** y Derechos Humanos.

My try:

Extraction activities
Our work approach is linked with the monitoring of concession processes and environmental and social management plans (giving priority to protected areas); our objective is to *advocate for* the environment and human rights.
Manuel Aburto
Nicaragua
Local time: 16:33
environmental advocacy
Explanation:
"... (prioritising protected areas), our aim (objective) being **environmental advocacy** and human rights.

Environmental advocacy is presenting information on nature and environmental issues that is decidedly opinionated and encourages its audience to adopt more environmentally sensitive attitudes, often more biocentric worldviews.
https://green.wikia.org/wiki/Environmental_advocacy#:~:text=...

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Thank you.
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Taña Dalglish
Jamaica
Local time: 17:33
Grading comment
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +2environmental and human rights advocacy
Coralia Maskavizan
4 +2bearing in mind our mission to advocate on behalf of the environment
Muriel Vasconcellos
2 +4environmental advocacy
Taña Dalglish
3 +2championing of the environment
Adrian MM.


  

Answers


21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
environmental and human rights advocacy


Explanation:
La expresión aparece en muchas páginas de organizaciones o fundaciones.

Coralia Maskavizan
Argentina
Local time: 19:33
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  AllegroTrans
8 hrs
agree  neilmac
18 hrs
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12 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
siendo nuestro fin la defensoría ambiental
bearing in mind our mission to advocate on behalf of the environment


Explanation:
Another possibility, taking the larger context into account.


Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 15:33
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 408

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  neilmac: ... and human rights
5 hrs
  -> Thank you, Neil!
agree  AllegroTrans: ... and human rights
1 day 22 hrs
  -> Thank you!
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1 day 8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
championing of the environment


Explanation:
our objective being ........ and of Human Rights.

Otherwise, as an office, the Anglo-Nordic term of 'Ombudsman' is also called a 'Parliamentary Commissioner' e.g. for the Environment or Enviromental Affairs.

Example sentence(s):
  • A champion of environmental justice, Jerry has been a strong supporter of regulations.. jerryfornewmexico.com Como defensor de la justicia ambiental, Jerry es partidario fuerte de normas que protejan ...

    Reference: http://www.linguee.com/english-spanish/translation/championi...
Adrian MM.
Austria
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  neilmac: Championing... I like it :-)
10 hrs
  -> Thanks, Neil. It took a while for the penny to 'drop'.
agree  AllegroTrans
1 day 2 hrs
  -> Thanks, Chris. ''.. our objective is to *advocate for*..' I wonder whether we should be concerned about the asker translating into 'English' aka Spanglish..
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19 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +4
environmental advocacy


Explanation:
"... (prioritising protected areas), our aim (objective) being **environmental advocacy** and human rights.

Environmental advocacy is presenting information on nature and environmental issues that is decidedly opinionated and encourages its audience to adopt more environmentally sensitive attitudes, often more biocentric worldviews.
https://green.wikia.org/wiki/Environmental_advocacy#:~:text=...

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Note added at 6 days (2021-03-14 13:37:00 GMT) Post-grading
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Thank you.

Taña Dalglish
Jamaica
Local time: 17:33
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 68

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Barbara Cochran, MFA: Thank you, you, too.
1 hr
  -> Thank you Barbara. Stay safe.
agree  AllegroTrans
8 hrs
  -> Thank you. Stay safe.
agree  neilmac
18 hrs
  -> Thank you Neil.
agree  MELISA COTICHINI
23 hrs
  -> Gracias Melisa.
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