Eco-warrior
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The term eco-warrior is used to describe an envronmental activist that adopts a "hands-on" effort to save or salvage a plot of land, or to advance some ecological ideology.
An eco-warrior can be someone as mundane and non-confrontational as a tree sitter or she can be someone who engages in direct action which can range anywhere from planting tree spikes into trees on public lands to keep the lumber industry from cutting them down, to sit-ins which occupy a corporate office.
The most common usage of the term is used to label an environmental activist who engages in illegal activities. However an eco-warrior is also someone who utilizes the courts to halt, suspend, or otherwise derail a human activity that the activist believes adversely impacts the environment.
One of the best written books about the subject is Confessions of an Eco-Warrior by David Foreman, co-founder of Earth First! who was marginally implicated in an FBI terrorist plot known as THERMCON.
A well known "eco-warrior" is Daniel Hooper, who is also known as Swampy.