Tag: The Amazon
“Martyr of the Amazon:” Recalling Sister Dorothy Stang’s ministry 20 years...
While the Latin word "megascops" denoted the bird's species, the word "stangiae" was inspired by the name of Sister Dorothy Stang, a US-born Sister of Notre Dame de Namur, who was killed on 12 February, 2005, by gunmen hired to assassinate the 73-year-old nun religious for her work protecting the Amazon forest and the people living there.
