Carlos Selva works in Mato Grosso, the frontline of efforts to find a balance between protecting the climate and feeding a growing world population.
The couple do not consider themselves activists, but they are at the frontline of efforts to leave the forest intact, having loaned the villagers money to keep the eco-lodge afloat and now campaigning against the oil exploration.
Amazonia sits at the frontline of efforts to both improve the productivity of tropical agriculture and prevent the loss of biodiversity.
The 60,000-strong FC, which is deployed along the length of the 1,600-mile 1,600-mileh Afghanistan, has long bordern the frontline of Pakistani efforts to combat Taliban militancy and flush al-Qaida from its tribal havens.
"The chaos in Venezuela is causing turbulence for us," says Lopes, who is on the frontline of municipal efforts to cope with rising homelessness, begging, prostitution, hunger and ill health.
Trained in first aid and emergency response, they are on the frontline of government efforts to ensure Haiti is better prepared to deal with disasters and can save more lives.
Greece is on the frontline of the effort to contain and cope with the wave of immigrants crossing the Mediterranean from the Middle East and north Africa.
Whether it is in Pabbo or anywhere else, everyone must be at the frontline of this effort – parents, caregivers, camp leaders, health workers, teachers, counsellors, the police, district local governments, religious leaders and community groups, NGOs and the UN.
"Tom Price is someone who has made clear throughout his career that he does not trust women to make our own decisions about our healthcare … As chair of the budget committee, he has been on the frontlines of the efforts to dismantle the lifesaving Affordable Care Act, as well as the dangerous attempts to defund Planned Parenthood".
Hedi Alieva, a Chechen-born Muslim, is on the frontline of Adamowicz's efforts to put his city through a crash course in multiculturalism.
Profile: Dr. Yousif Al Kouda, Islamic scholar in the frontline of Sudan's efforts to abandon FGM/C 3 November 2011 - To explain how he became one of Sudan's leading campaigners against the practice of female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C), Dr. Yousif Al Kouda looks back to his beginnings, growing up in the eastern state of Kassala.
