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Goldman Environmental Prize
About the prize
- Goldman Environmental Prize:(1) Goldman Environmental Prize honors grassroots environmental heroes from the world’s six inhabited continental regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands & Island Nations, North America, and South & Central America.(2) The Prize recognizes individuals for sustained and significant efforts to protect and enhance the natural environment, often at great personal risk.(3) Goldman Prize recipients focus on:
- Protecting endangered ecosystems and species.
- Combating destructive development projects.
- Promoting sustainability.
- Influencing environmental policies.
- Striving for environmental justice.
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- Person awarded this prize:(1) Alfred Brownell from remote Liberian village.(2) Mr. Brownell, an environmental lawyer and activist, blamed the devastation on the palm oil company Golden Veroleum Liberia.(3) The company had been given a green light in 2010 by the government to expand and was poised to turn more than 2,000 km2 of forest into palm oil plantations.(4) Mr. Brownell on Monday was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for exposing alleged abuse by the company and helping to prevent it from converting about 50 km2 of forest that is home to elephants, pygmy hippopotamuses and chimpanzees.
- The other winners are:(1) Linda Garcia of Vancouver, Washington, who rallied local communities to successfully prevent the construction of North America’s largest oil terminal.(2) Colovic Lesoska of North Macedonia, whose seven-year campaign helped stop hydroelectric projects from being built in the country’s largest national park.(3) Bayarjargal Agvaantseren of Mongolia, who led the fight to create the Tost Tosonbumba Nature Reserve.(4) Jacqueline Evans of the Cook Islands, whose work led to the conservation and sustainable management of all of the Cook Islands’ ocean territory and creation of 15 marine protected areas.(5) Alberto Curamil of Chile, a jailed indigenous activist who had protested several hydroelectric projects in the country.
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