It has been recognized for decades that women play a determining role in sustainable development and in the judicious use of natural resources in order to assure their continued existence for future generations. Women’s caretaking ethic, their consciousness of the finite nature of resources, their transmission of knowledge to their children, their instinct for conservation and sensitivity to it, among other things, constitute the fundamental characteristics that differentiate women’s role in the protection of nature and the construction of a worldwide environmental movement.