Zoë Tryon

{{Short description|British aristocrat and environmental activist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = The Honourable | name = Zoë Tryon | image = Zoë Tryon 2018.jpg | alt = Zoë Tryon Bio Photo | caption = | birth_name = Zoë Elizabeth Tryon | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1974|5|1|df=yes}} | birth_place = London, England | other_names = | parents = Anthony Tryon, 3rd Baron Tryon Dale Harper | website = {{URL|https://www.zoetryon.com/}} | education = Bachelor of Arts (Anthropology)<ref name="SydneyUni01">{{cite web |url=https://kelleelaser.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834519d5169e20133f2bdbc22970b-pi |title=Amazon Woman |last=Smelcher |first=Lauren |date= 30 July 2010|website= kelleelaserphotography.com|publisher=Sydney Alumni Magazine |access-date=19 November 2018}}</ref> | alma_mater = University of Sydney<ref name="SydneyUni01"/> | occupation = Ambassador for Amazon Watch,<ref name="AmazonWatch01">{{cite web |url=https://amazonwatch.org/about/staff-and-board |title=Amazon Watch Ambassadors |author= |date=2000–2018 |website=Amazon Watch |access-date=18 November 2018}}</ref> for the Achuar People and other Amazonian indigenous Peoples in Ecuador<ref name="AchuarEtAl01">{{cite news |last=Oppenheim |first=Leonora |date=21 August 2007 |title=The TH Interview: Zoe Tryon - Anthropologist and All-round Amazonian Woman|url=https://www.treehugger.com/culture/the-th-interview-zoe-tryon-anthropologist-and-all-round-amazonian-woman.html |work= Treehugger|access-date=18 November 2018 }}</ref> | years_active = 2006–present | known_for = Eldest child of Lord and Lady Tryon; eco-aristocrat promoting and arranging 'Toxic Tours' into Ecuadorian Amazon | notable_works = Arranged<ref name="Chevron01">{{cite web |url=https://amazonwatch.org/news/2011/1009-the-amazons-toxic-mess |title=Chevron Responds to Channel 7's "Sunday Night" Story on Lawsuit |last=Chevron |date=1 October 2011 |website=Amazon Watch |publisher=Chevron |access-date=18 November 2018 |archive-date=13 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113170024/https://amazonwatch.org/news/2011/1009-the-amazons-toxic-mess |url-status=dead }}</ref> & featured in Australian Channel 7 Sunday Night Ecuadorian Amazon 'Bad Oil' (9 October 2011) exposé <ref name="MikeMunro01">{{cite web |url=https://amazonwatch.org/news/2011/1009-the-amazons-toxic-mess |title=Bad Oil |last=Munro |first=Mike |date=9 October 2011 |website=Amazon Watch |publisher=Australia's Channel 7 'Sunday Night' |access-date=18 November 2018 |archive-date=13 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113170024/https://amazonwatch.org/news/2011/1009-the-amazons-toxic-mess |url-status=dead }}</ref> | organisation = One of the Tribe }} '''Zoë Elizabeth Tryon''' (born 1 May 1974){{Citation needed|date=February 2025}} is the eldest child and daughter of Anthony Tryon, 3rd Baron Tryon, and Dale Tryon, Baroness Tryon. She is most notable for her work as an "eco-aristocratic" ambassador for Amazon Watch,<ref name="AmazonWatch01"/> the Achuar and the other indigenous peoples of Ecuadorian Amazon,<ref name="AchuarEtAl01"/> particularly fundraising, she has also promoted and arranged 'big name' tours for celebrities, journalists, and others to support the cause of locally indigenous peoples,<ref name="SydneyUni01"/><ref name="cocoeco01">{{cite web |url=https://cocoecomag.com/2016/02/24/warrior-women-the-jungle-goddess/ |title=Warrior Women: Jungle Goddess |last=Doanne |first=Beth |date=24 February 2016 |website=cocoecomag.com |publisher=cocoecomag |access-date=25 November 2018 |archive-date=25 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125162436/https://cocoecomag.com/2016/02/24/warrior-women-the-jungle-goddess/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> needing to clean up, or resist the toxic waste being left and ecological damage being done by 'big oil' companies drilling and seeking to continue to drill the Amazon rainforests of Ecuador.<ref name="MikeMunro01"/>

==Aristocrat== Tryon was born in 1974 to former banker the 3rd Baron Tryon (1940–2018){{Citation needed|date=February 2025}} and Dale 'Kanga' Tryon (1948–1997), the eldest of four{{Nbsp}}siblings, with a{{Nbsp}}brother, Charles, born in 1976, and twins, Victoria and Edward, born in 1980.{{Citation needed|date=February 2025}} Lord Tryon was a part of the inner circle of the future King Charles III, then the Prince of Wales.<ref name="Telegraph">{{cite news |author= |title=Lord Tryon, friend to the Royal family and husband of Kanga, the glamorous Australian linked to Prince Charles – obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/01/05/lord-tryon-steadfast-discreet-friend-royal-family-husband-kanga/ |work= The Telegraph|location=UK |date=2019-01-05 |access-date=2019-11-30}}</ref>

As the eldest child, Tryon has, over the years, appeared a number of times in magazines and media such as ''The Australian Women's Weekly'' in the 1970 and 1980s;<ref name="WomansWeekly01">{{cite magazine |last=Wells |first=Lana |date=7 December 1977 |title=Prince Charles calls me Kanga |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/46453758/4791660 |magazine=The Australian Women's Weekly |access-date=18 November 2018}}</ref><ref name="WomansWeekly02">{{cite magazine |last=Howell |first=Georgina |date=2 December 1981 |title=Why Lady Tryon is one of Prince Charle's closest friends .. |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/51585700/4404890 |magazine=The Australian Women's Weekly |access-date=18 November 2018}}</ref> ''British Harpers'', ''Queen Magazine<ref name="Harpers&Queen01">{{cite magazine |date= June 1992 |title=Where the Girls Are |url=https://www.crazyaboutmagazines.com/ourshop/prod_580959-British-Harpers-Queen-magazine-June-1992-Victoria-Spencer-and-Kitty-Spencer-cover.html |magazine=British Harpers and Queen |access-date=18 November 2018}}</ref>'' and ''Tatler'' in the early 1990s;<ref name="Tatler01">{{cite magazine |date= 15 October 1992 |title=Zoe Tryon's 21st|url=https://www.tatler.com/gallery/zoe-tryons-21st |magazine=Tatler |access-date=18 November 2018}}</ref> ''Hello!'',<ref name="Hello01">{{cite magazine|date=24 October 2006|title=ZOE TRYON Shows her mother's spirited character as she fights to save the rainforests|url=https://www.crazyaboutmagazines.com/ourshop/prod_238199-Hello-magazine-Madonna-cover-24-October-2006-Issue-941.html|magazine=Hello|access-date=19 November 2018}}</ref> ''Business of Everything<ref name="BOE01">{{cite magazine|date=24 October 2006|title=Zoe Tryon Talks Ecuador, the Environment & the Future|url=http://www.boemagazine.com/2013/12/zoe-tryon-talks-ecuador-the-environment-the-future/|magazine=The Business of Everything|access-date=25 November 2018|archive-date=7 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207095812/http://www.boemagazine.com/2013/12/zoe-tryon-talks-ecuador-the-environment-the-future/|url-status=dead}}</ref>'' and newspapers like ''The Sydney Morning Herald''.<ref name="SydneyMorn01">{{cite web |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/catwalk-closed-to-the-kittens-20080412-gds971.html |title=Brit spotlight back on Kanga |author= |date=12 April 2008 |website=Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=18 November 2018 }}</ref> and the Daily Mail 6 June 2008 & 7 March 2011

==Eco-aristocrat==

Tryon's eco-activism with the Achuar and indigenous peoples of Ecuadorian Amazon begins in 2006 when Tryon joined the co-founders of the Pachamama Alliance on a trip into the Ecuadorian Amazon to visit the Achuar; subsequently joining the Pachamama Alliance to facilitate and assist fund raise {{US$|1.352{{nbsp}}million}}.<ref name="AchuarEtAl01" />

Working with the Pachamama Alliance, Tryon had been introduced to—and invited by their president, Kistupa Paesto{{Citation needed|date=February 2025}}—to live among the Achuar. In 2007, Tryon moved to live within the Ecuadorian Amazon, working from the Kapawi Eco-Lodge to prepare for Achuar people to take ownership and manage the remote eco-lodge inside their territories. She next spent a brief period of time living and directly experiencing life amongst the Achuar;{{Citation needed|date=February 2025}} learning from the Achuar before becoming a guide. She guided David Mayer de Rothschild and his Mission Toxico team on a visit to Achuar territory, witnessing the accumulative and continuing ecological damage and long-term health effects of toxic waste being left behind by internationally sponsored drilling for oil in the Ecuadorian Amazon.<ref name="AchuarEtAl01"/>

From 2008, Tryon had a full-time role joining Amazon Watch. raising funds<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/zoe-tryon/zoetryon |title=Zoe's 1097 km walk for Yasuni |author= |website=firstgiving.com |access-date=20 November 2018}}</ref> and working principally from the Pachamama Alliance office in Ecuador's capital Quito, running eco-tourism trips and raising awareness of the international oil industry's continuing ecological damage, and general exploitation of Ecuadorian Amazon indigenous territories and peoples.<ref name="Telegraph01">{{cite news |last=Kendall |first=Clare |date=8 August 2008 |title=Amazonian Chernobyl - Ecuador's oil environment disaster |url=https://amazonwatch.org/news/2008/0808-amazonian-chernobyl--ecuadors-oil-environment-disaster |work=Telegraph|location=United Kingdom |access-date=24 November 2018}}</ref>

==Eco-activism== Tryon launches and runs 'Toxic Tours' leading groups of film makers, journalists, and environmentally aware celebrities including the likes of Daryl Hannah{{Citation needed|date=February 2025}}, James Cameron{{Citation needed|date=February 2025}} and others, revealing the extent of big oil devastation, visiting some of more than 950{{Nbsp}}open toxic pits left by the big oil companies, visiting lawyers including Ecuadorian lawyer Pablo Fajardo running legal class actions against the likes of Chevron Corporation, striving to promote the cause of the Achuar and others seeking to repair, restore, save the Ecuadorian Amazon 'one Toxic Tour at a time'.<ref name="SydneyUni01"/><ref name="Focus01">{{cite journal |last1=Fadiman |first1=Maria |date=21 April 2010 |title=Amazonian Oil Exploration: Contradictions in Culture and Environment |journal=Focus on Geography |volume=52 |issue=1 |pages=1–10 |doi= 10.1111/j.1949-8535.2009.tb00059.x}}</ref><ref name="CounterSpill01">{{cite web |url=http://www.counterspill.org/article/zo%C3%AB-tryon-joins-intervention |title=Zoë Tryon joins the Intervention |last=Gillis |first=Carly |date= 9 May 2011 |website=www.counterspill.org |publisher=counterspill |access-date=25 November 2018 }}</ref>

In 2011 Tryon approached and invited ex-60 minutes journalist Mike Munro, an old friend of the family, to take on a toxic tour and, from that tour, produce a hard hitting piece on 'big oil' in the Ecuadorian Amazon for Australian Channel 7's Sunday Night program,<ref name="Chevron">{{cite web |url=http://theamazonpost.com/httpbit-lyrhcpme/ |title=Chevron Responds to Channel 7's "Sunday Night" Story on Lawsuit |author= |date=10 October 2011 |website=theamazonpost.com |publisher=Chevron |access-date=25 November 2018 |archive-date=25 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125165440/http://theamazonpost.com/httpbit-lyrhcpme/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> which was ultimately produced and aired the 9{{Nbsp}}October{{Nbsp}}2011, entitled 'Bad Oil', portraying Tryon and 'big oil' company, Chevron, in a 'David and Goliath' {{US$|8{{nbsp}}billion}} battle to repair, restore, and save Ecuadorian Amazon from environmental catastrophe.<ref name="MikeMunro01"/>

Tryon has also become a Champion for a 'Clearwater' project for which she has been fundraising to assist pay the costs of people making Ecuadorian Amazon 'big oil' contaminated waters drinkable.<ref name="Ecocitizen01">{{cite web |url=http://www.ecocitizenaustralia.com.au/amazonian-activist-zoe-tryon/ |title=Amazonian activist Zoe Tryon |last=Hordem |first=Tracey |date=16 October 2012 |website=www.ecocitizenaustralia.com.au |publisher=ecocitizen |access-date=25 November 2018 }}{{Dead link|date=October 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref>

{{Blockquote |text=After an 18-year lawsuit the indigenous people and the colonists won against the oil giant, but Chevron are refusing to pay to clear the more than 950{{nbsp}}unlined pits full of oil and waste products which have been leaching into waterways for decades. Now the people are taking matters into their own hands and have created Clearwater |author=Zoë Tryon |source=}}

By 2017 Tryon has formed her own international not-for-profit-organisation, called One of the Tribe{{Citation needed|date=February 2025}}, dedicated to promoting the rights of the Achuar and other indigenous peoples of Ecuador Amazon and still spending up to six{{Nbsp}}months a year leading tours and immersing in the Ecuadorian Amazon pursuing her passion and life's work <ref name="Figue01">{{cite web |url=https://figue.com/blogs/world-of-figue/zoe-tryon |title=Global Gypsy |author= |date=18 October 2017 |website=figue.com |publisher=Figue |access-date=25 November 2018 |archive-date=25 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125162438/https://figue.com/blogs/world-of-figue/zoe-tryon |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * [https://www.zoetryon.com/about-zo/ 'About Zoe'] Accessed 19 November 2018 * [https://clare.photoshelter.com/gallery/Environmental-campaigner-Zoe-Tryon-in-Ecuador/G0000fiz.31o4cMY/C0000GR51aNsS_p4 Environmental campaigner Zoe Tryon in Ecuador] Accessed 20 November 2018 * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1RBJqfNL6s Zoe Tryon and explorations of the Amazon] Accessed 20 November 2018 * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBZ7IvlGmAY&t=612s World Traveler Zoe Tryon] Accessed 20 November 2018 * [https://www.plansouthamerica.com/zoe-tryon-one-of-the-tribe/ "Zoe Tryon | One of the Tribe" Plan South America Blog] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210412203505/https://www.plansouthamerica.com/zoe-tryon-one-of-the-tribe/ |date=12 April 2021 }}

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