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al activists, one from each of the world's six geographic regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, and South and Central America. The award is given by the Goldman Environmental Foundation headquartered in

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. It is also called the ''Green Nobel.'' The Goldman Environmental Prize was created in 1989 by philanthropists

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. , the award amount is $200,000. The winners are selected by an international jury who receive confidential nominations from a worldwide network of environmental organizations and individuals. Prize winners participate in a 10-day tour of San Francisco and Washington, D.C., for an awards ceremony and presentation, news conferences, media briefings and meetings with political, public policy, financial and environmental leaders. The award ceremony features short documentary videos on each winner, narrated by Robert Redford and (beginning in 2021)

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. The 2019 Goldman Environmental Prize ceremony marking the 30th anniversary took place on April 29, 2019, at the

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in San Francisco. A second award ceremony took place on May 1, 2019, in

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The 2020, 2021, and 2022 Goldman Environmental Prize ceremonies took place online due to the

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, with pre-recorded videos premiering on November 30, 2020, June 15, 2021, and May 25, 2022, respectively.

Prize winners

1990

* Robert Brown (Australia) *

Lois Gibbs Lois Marie Gibbs (born June 25, 1951) is an American environmental activist. A primary organizer of the Love Canal Homeowners Association, Lois Gibbs brought wide public attention to the environmental crisis in Love Canal. Her actions resulted in ...

(United States) * Janet Gibson (Belize) * Harrison Ngau Laing (Malaysia) * János Vargha (Hungary) *

Michael Werikhe Michael Werikhe (25 May 1956 – 9 August 1999), also known as “the Rhino Man” was a Kenyan conservationist. He became famous through his long fundraising walks in the African Great Lakes region and overseas. He started his campaign afte ...

(Kenya)

1991

* Wangari Muta Maathai (Kenya) * Barnens Regnskog (Eha Kern & Roland Tiensuu) (Sweden) * Evaristo Nugkuag (Peru) * Yoichi Kuroda (Japan) *

Samuel LaBudde Samuel Freeman LaBudde is an American biologist. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1991Goldman Environmental PrizeSamuel LaBudde (Retrieved on November 24, 2007) for his landmark efforts on preserving dolphins and other marine spe ...

(United States) *

Cath Wallace Catherine C. "Cath" Wallace (born 1952) is a New Zealand environmentalist and academic. She is a lecturer in economics and public policy at Victoria University of Wellington, and has been active in environment organizations in New Zealand. She ...

(New Zealand)

1992

* Jeton Anjain (Marshall Islands) *

Medha Patkar Medha Patkar née Khanolkar (born 1 December 1954) is an Indian social activist and former Politician working on various crucial political and economic issues raised by tribals, dalits, farmers, labourers and women facing injustice in India. She ...

(India) * Wadja Egnankou (Ivory Coast) * Christine Jean (France) *

Colleen McCrory Colleen McCrory (1949/1950 – July 1, 2007) was a Canadian environmental activist. She was born in New Denver, British Columbia by the light of a Coleman lantern to Patrick and Mabel McCrory. She was raised in New Denver BC, with 8 brother's and ...

(Canada) * Carlos Alberto Ricardo (Brazil)

1993

Margaret Jacobsohn Margaret Jacobsohn is a Namibian environmentalist. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1993, jointly with Garth Owen-Smith, for their efforts on conservation of wildlife in rural Namibia. Biography She was born in South Africa, ...

Garth Owen-Smith Garth Owen-Smith (22 February 1944 – 11 April 2020) was a South African-Namibian environmentalist. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1993, jointly with Margaret Jacobsohn, for their efforts on conservation of wildlife in Nam ...

(Namibia) * Juan Mayr (Colombia) *

Dai Qing Fu Xiaoqing (, born 24 August 1941), better known by her pen name Dai Qing (), is a journalist and activist for China-related issues; most significantly against the Three Gorges Dam Project. She left the Chinese Communist Party after the bloodsh ...

(China) * John Sinclair (Australia) *

JoAnn Tall JoAnn Tall is an environmental activist of the Oglala Lakota tribe who has worked to ensure the people have a chance to approve major projects for energy development. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1993 for her protests agains ...

(United States) * Sviatoslav Zabelin (Russia)

1994

Matthew Coon Come Matthew Coon Come (born April 13, 1956) is a Canadian politician and activist of Cree descent. He was National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations from 2000 to 2003. Born near Mistissini, Quebec, Coon Come was first educated at LaTuque Ind ...

(Canada) * Tuenjai Deetes (Thailand) * Laila Iskander Kamel (Egypt) *

Luis Macas Luis Macas Ambuludí (born 1951) is a Kichwa politician and intellectual from Saraguro Ecuador. Macas has honorary university degrees in anthropology, linguistics and jurisprudence. He was one of the founders of the CONAIE and of the Pachakutik ...

(Ecuador) * Heffa Schücking (Germany) *

Andrew Simmons Andrew Simmons (born 21 May 1984), better known by his ring name Andy Boy Simmonz, is a British professional wrestler. He is currently working in the independent circuit in the United Kingdom for several promotions. Simmons' most high-profile ...

(St. Vincent and the Grenadines)

1995

* Aurora Castillo (United States) * Yul Choi (South Korea) * Noah Idechong (Palau) * Emma Must (England) *

Ricardo Navarro Ricardo Navarro is an engineer from El Salvador. He was founder and president of the environmental organization CESTA (Salvadoran Center for Appropriate Technology). He received the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1995, for his contributions to sust ...

(El Salvador) *

Ken Saro-Wiwa Kenule Beeson "Ken" Saro-Wiwa (10 October 1941 – 10 November 1995) was a Nigerians, Nigerian writer, television producer, and environmental activist. Ken Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in Nigeria whose homelan ...

(Nigeria)

1996

Ndyakira Amooti Ndyakira Ntamuhiira Amooti ( – 25 August 1999) was a Ugandan children's writer, journalist and environmentalist, awarded the Global 500 Roll of Honour and winner of the Goldman Environment Prize. Life and career Amooti worked as a journalist f ...

(Uganda) * Bill Ballantine (New Zealand) * Edwin Bustillos (Mexico) * M.C. Mehta (India) *

Marina Silva Maria Osmarina da Silva Vaz de Lima (born 8 February 1958) is a Brazilian politician and environmentalist. She is the founder and former spokeswoman for the Sustainability Network Party (REDE). During her political career, Silva served as a sen ...

(Brasil) * Albena Simeonova (Bulgaria)

1997

* Nick Carter (Zambia) * Loir Botor Dingit (Indonesia) *

Alexander Nikitin Alexander Konstantinovich Nikitin (russian: Алекса́ндр Константи́нович Ники́тин; born 16 May 1952) is a Russian former submarine officer and nuclear safety inspector turned environmentalist. In 1996 he was accused ...

(Russia) *

Juan Pablo Orrego Juan Pablo Orrego is a Chilean ecologist, musician and environmentalist. He is the current president of the Ecosistemas (NGO). He is one of the most influential environmental voices in Chile, and Latin America as consequence of his important parti ...

(Chile) *

Fuiono Senio Fuiono Senio (died 17 May 1997) was a chief and environmentalist from Falealupo village on the island of Savai'i in Western Samoa. A logging company offered funds to the Samoan government to build a school for Senio's village if they could log th ...

Paul Alan Cox Paul Alan Cox is an American ethnobotanist whose scientific research focuses on discovering new medicines by studying patterns of wellness and illness among indigenous peoples. Cox was born in Salt Lake City in 1953. Education After receiving h ...

(Western Samoa) *

Terri Swearingen Terri Swearingen is a nurse from the state of Ohio Ohio () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Of the List of states and territories of the United States, fifty U.S. states, it is the ...

(United States)

1998

Anna Giordano Anna Giordano (born in 1965) is an Italian conservation movement, conservationist. A trained ornithologist with a doctorate in natural sciences, Giordano is today a leader of World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Sicily and a respected environmental ...

(Italy) *

Kory Johnson Kory Johnson is an American environmentalist from Arizona. In 1991, while still a young girl, Johnson led a successful effort by Children for a Safe Environment to stop a hazardous waste dump being built in her local area. In 1996 she joined Gr ...

(United States) * Berito Kuwaru'wa (Colombia) * Atherton Martin (Commonwealth of Dominica) * Sven "Bobby" Peek (South Africa) *

Hirofumi Yamashita (died 2000) was a Japanese ichthyologist and environmentalist. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots environmental activists, one from each of the world's six ...

(Japan)

1999

Jacqui Katona Jacqui Katona is a western-educated Aboriginal Australian woman who led the campaign to stop the Jabiluka uranium mine in the Northern Territory. In 1998 the Mirrar Aboriginal people, together with environmental groups, used peaceful on-site c ...

Yvonne Margarula Yvonne Margarula is an Aboriginal Australian environmentalist who won the 1998 Friends of the Earth International Environment Award and the 1998 Nuclear-Free Future Award. She also won the 1999 US Goldman Environmental Prize, with Jacqui Katon ...

(Australia) * Michal Kravcik (Slovakia) *

Bernard Martin Bernard Martin may refer to: * Bernard Martin (New Zealand politician) Bernard Martin (1882 – 19 June 1956) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party and one of the party's pioneers. Biography Early life and career Martin was born in ...

(Canada) *

Samuel Nguiffo Samuel Nguiffo is a Cameroonian lawyer. He is manager of the Center for Environment and Development in Yaoundé. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1999, for his efforts on protection of the tropical rainforests of Central Afric ...

(Cameroon) * Jorge Varela (Honduras) * Ka Hsaw Wa (Myanmar)

2000

Oral Ataniyazova Oral Ataniyazova (russian: Орал Атаниязова) is an obstetrician and medical scientist from Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan. She is the director of ''Perzent'', the Karakalpak Center for Reproductive Health and Environment. Biography Ata ...

(Uzbekistan) * Elias Diaz Peña &

Oscar Rivas Oscar, OSCAR, or The Oscar may refer to: People * Oscar (given name), an Irish- and English-language name also used in other languages; the article includes the names Oskar, Oskari, Oszkár, Óscar, and other forms. * Oscar (Irish mythology) ...

(Paraguay) * Vera Mischenko (Russia) *

Rodolfo Montiel Flores Rodolfo Montiel Flores is a Mexican Tenant farmer, campesino, a Subsistence agriculture, subsistence farmer, from the village El Mameyal in the state of Guerrero, Mexico. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2000Goldman Environmental ...

(Mexico) *

Alexander Peal Alexander Louis Peal is a Liberian forestry, forester and Conservation movement, conservationist who won the prestigious international Goldman Environmental Prize in 2000 for his efforts to protect and preserve the biodiversity and natural heritag ...

(Liberia) *

Nat Quansah Nat Quansah is a botanist from Ghana, and earned a doctorate in philosophy in pteridology from the University of London, Goldsmiths College. He received a master's degree in botany at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He has taught courses on ...

(Madagascar)

2001

Jane Akre Jane Akre is an American journalist best known for the whistleblower lawsuit by herself and her former husband, Steve Wilson (reporter), Steve Wilson, against Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox station WTVT in Tampa, Florida. Akre and Wilson are featur ...

& Steve Wilson (reporter) (United States) * Yosepha Alomang (Indonesia) * Giorgos Catsadorakis & Myrsini Malakou (Greece) *

Oscar Olivera Oscar Olivera Foronda (born 1955) was one of the main leaders of the protesters against the water privatization in Bolivia. The result of these protests was an event known as the Cochabamba Water War. Now he is one of the main leaders of the prote ...

(Bolivia) *

Eugène Rutagarama Eugène Rutagarama is an environmentalist from Rwanda. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2001, for his efforts on saving the population of mountain gorillas in the Volcanoes National Park in the Virungas mountains, during the war ...

(Rwanda) *

Bruno Van Peteghem Bruno Van Peteghem (1950s – 24 August 2022, in New Caledonia) was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2001, for his campaign to place the island's coral reef (among the world's largest and most unusual) on UNESCO's World Heritage List i ...

(New Caledonia)

2002

* Pisit Charnsnoh (Thailand) *

Sarah James Sarah Agnes James (born 1946) is a native Neets'aii Gwich'in from Arctic Village, Alaska, USA, and a board member of the ''International Indian Treaty Council''. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2002,Goldman Environmental Prize" ...

& Jonathon Solomon (United States) *

Fatima Jibrell Fatima Jibrell ( so, Fadumo Jibriil, ar, فاطمة جبريل; born December 30, 1947) is a Somali-American environmental activist. She was the co-founder and executive director of the Horn of Africa Relief and Development Organization (now Ade ...

(Somalia) * Alexis Massol González (Puerto Rico) * Norma Kassi (Canada) *

Jean La Rose Jean La Rose (born 6 May 1962) is an Arawak environmentalist and indigenous rights activist in Guyana. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2002 for her work to halt mining in their territories, to secure inhabitants full rights to t ...

(Guyana) * Jadwiga Łopata (Poland)

2003

Julia Bonds Julia "Judy" Belle Thompson Bonds (August 27, 1952 – January 3, 2011) was an organizer and activist from the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, United States. Raised in a family of coalminers, she worked from an early age at minimum wag ...

(United States) * Pedro Arrojo-Agudo (Spain) *

Eileen Kampakuta Brown Eileen Kampakuta Brown (born 1 January 1938) is an Aboriginal elder from Australia. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2003Goldman Environmental Prize''Eileen Kampakuta Brown'' (Retrieved on 2 December 2007) together with E ...

Eileen Wani Wingfield Eileen Wani Wingfield is an Aboriginal elder from Australia. She was jointly awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2003Goldman Environmental Prize''Eileen Wani Wingfield'' (Retrieved 2 December 2007) with Eileen Kampakuta Brown, for effor ...

(Australia) *

Von Hernandez Von Hernandez is a leading environmental activist from the Philippines. He was Executive Director of Greenpeace Southeast Asia (GPSEA) from 2008 to 2014, where he led the environmental group's programs and operations in the Southeast Asian region ...

(Philippines) * Maria Elena Foronda Farro (Peru) * Odigha Odigha (Nigeria)

2004

Rudolf Amenga-Etego Rudolf Amenga-Etego (born December 17, 1958) is a Ghanaian lawyer and environmentalist. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2004, for his efforts in keeping water supplies affordable for the population and campaigning against the pri ...

(Ghana) *

Rashida Bee Rashida Bee is an Indian activist from Bhopal. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2004, together with Champa Devi Shukla. The two have struggled for justice for the surviving victims of the 1984 Bhopal disaster, when 20,000 pe ...

and

Champa Devi Shukla Champa Devi Shukla is an Indian activist from Bhopal. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2004, together with Rashida Bee. Shukla and Bee have struggled for justice for those who survived the 1984 Bhopal disaster, when 20,000 ...

(India) *

Libia Grueso Libia Grueso is a social worker and Civil and political rights, civil rights activist from Buenaventura, Colombia, fighting for civil rights of Afro-Colombians, Afro-Colombian communities. She is also co-founder of the ''Process of Black Communit ...

(Colombia) *

Manana Kochladze Manana Kochladze (born c. 1972) is a Georgian biologist and environmentalist. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2004 for her environmental campaigns, in particular regarding oil pipelines through vulnerable areas. Originally tra ...

(Georgia) * Demetrio do Amaral de Carvalho (East Timor) * Margie Richard (United States)

2005

* Isidro Baldenegro López (Mexico) *

Kaisha Atakhanova Kaisha Atakhanova (born 18 July 1957) is a biologist from Karaganda, Kazakhstan, specializing in the genetic effects of nuclear radiation. Due to her civil society activism, she was awarded the international Goldman Environmental Prize in 2005Gold ...

(Kazakhstan) * Jean-Baptiste Chavannes (Haiti) * Stephanie Danielle Roth (Romania) * Corneille Ewango (Congo) * José Andrés Tamayo Cortez (Honduras)

2006

* Silas Kpanan’ Siakor (Liberia) *

Yu Xiaogang Yu Xiaogang () is a Chinese environmentalist. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2006 for his efforts in "creating groundbreaking watershed management programs while researching and documenting the socioeconomic impact dams had on ...

(China) * Olya Melen (Ukraine) * Anne Kajir (Papua New Guinea) *

Craig E. Williams Craig E. Williams (born c.1948) is an American army Vietnam War veteran from Kentucky and co-founder of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation. Williams was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2006 for his efforts on convincing The Pent ...

(United States) * Tarcisio Feitosa da Silva (Brazil)

2007

* Sophia Rabliauskas (Manitoba, Canada) *

Hammerskjoeld Simwinga Hammerskjoeld Simwinga is a Zambian environmentalist. He received the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2007 for his efforts to stop elephant poaching through community economic initiatives. He is named after former United Nations Secretary General Dag ...

(Zambia) *

Tsetsgeegiin Mönkhbayar Tsetsgeegiin Mönkhbayar ( mn, Цэцгээгийн Мөнхбаяр) is a Mongolian herdsman and environmental activist. Mönkhbayar was elected to chair the local citizens' council in the Ongi River region 1996, after actively participating in m ...

(Mongolia) * Julio Cusurichi Palacios (Peru) *

Willie Corduff Willie Corduff (born 1953) is an Irish people, Irish environmental activist from the farming community of Rossport, Kilcommon, Erris. Corduff's parents first arrived in Rossport in 1947, and reclaimed a farm by hand out of bogland. He became a ...

(Ireland) * Orri Vigfússon (Iceland)

2008

Pablo Fajardo Pablo Fajardo Mendoza (or Pablo Fajardo) is an Ecuadorian lawyer and activist. He is the lawyer that has been leading the litigation against Chevron Corporation related to the environmental disaster he alleged was caused by the oil operations of ...

and Luis Yanza (Ecuador) * Jesus Leon Santos (Oaxaca, Mexico) * Rosa Hilda Ramos (Puerto Rico) *

Feliciano dos Santos Feliciano dos Santos is a Mozambican musician and environmentalist, hailing from the Niassa Province. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots environmental activis ...

(Mozambique) *

Marina Rikhvanova Marina Petrovna Rikhvanova is a Russian ecologist and leader of the Baikal Ecological Wave (BEW) organization which protects Siberia's Lake Baikal from ecological damage. Lake Baikal, the world's biggest reservoir of fresh water, is currently under ...

(Russia) * Ignace Schops from "Hoge Kempen National Park" (Belgium)

2009

Maria Gunnoe Maria Gunnoe (born 1968) is an environmentalist who opposes mountaintop removal mining, and is a winner of the Goldman Prize and Wallenberg Medal. Early life Maria was born in Boone County, West Virginia, where she continues to reside. She is a ...

Bob White, West Virginia Bob White is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community located on West Virginia Route 85 in Boone County, West Virginia, Boone County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The community's ZIP code is 25028. Most of Bob White's residents are e ...

(United States) * Marc Ona, Libreville (Gabon) * Rizwana Hasan,

Dhaka Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city i ...

(Bangladesh) * Olga Speranskaya,

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

(Russia) * Yuyun Ismawati (Bali, Indonesia) * Wanze Eduards and Hugo Jabini (Pikin Slee village and Paramaribo, Suriname)

2010

* Thuli Brilliance Makama (Swaziland) * Tuy Sereivathana (Cambodia) *

Małgorzata Górska Małgorzata Górska is a Polish activist and conservationist, who played an integral role in the movement to protect the Rospuda Valley in north-eastern Poland, one of Europe's last true wilderness areas. She comes from Trzcianne region in Podl ...

(Poland) * Humberto Ríos Labrada (Cuba) * Lynn Henning (United States) * Randall Arauz (Costa Rica)

2011

* Raoul du Toit, (Zimbabwe) * Dmitry Lisitsyn (Russia) *

Ursula Sladek Ursula Sladek (born 6 September 1946) owns a small local power company, Schönau Power Supply, located in Schönau im Schwarzwald, Germany, that provides electricity from renewable energy sources to the German electricity grid. Her company "gets muc ...

(Germany) * Prigi Arisandi (Indonesia) *

Hilton Kelley Hilton Kelley is a former American actor and environmentalist from Port Arthur, Texas. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots environmental activists, one from eac ...

(United States) * Francisco Pineda (El Salvador)

2012

* Ikal Angelei (Kenya) * Ma Jun (China) *

Yevgeniya Chirikova Yevgeniya Sergeyevna Chirikova ( rus, Евге́ния Серге́евна Чи́рикова: born 12 November 1976 in Moscow) is a Russian environmental activist, primarily known for opposing the building of a motorway through Khimki Forest nea ...

(Russia) * Edwin Gariguez (Philippines) * Caroline Cannon (United States) * Sofia Gatica (Argentina)

2013

* Azzam Alwash (Iraq) *

Aleta Baun Aleta Baun is an Culture of Indonesia, Indonesian environmental activist. She has been described as the Indonesian Avatar. She won the 2013 Goldman Environmental Prize for organizing hundreds of local villagers to peacefully occupy marble mining ...

(Indonesia) *

Jonathan Deal Jonathan Deal is a South African environmentalist. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2013, in particular for his efforts on protecting the Karoo The Karoo ( ; from the Afrikaans borrowing of the South Khoekhoe !Orakobab or ...

(South Africa) *

Rossano Ercolini Rossano Ercolini is an Italian teacher and grassroots environmentalist from Tuscany. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2013, in particular for his efforts on informing the public on health and environmental risks of incineration, ...

(Italy) *

Nohra Padilla Nohra Padilla is a Colombian environmentalist. She grew up in Bogotá. She has assumed a leading position in the Association of Recyclers of Bogotá, and of the National Association of Recyclers in Colombia, which organizes about 12,000 members. Sh ...

(Colombia) *

Kimberly Wasserman Kimberly Wasserman (Kimberly Wasserman Nieto) is an American environmentalist and grassroots leader As director of the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO), she is a recipient of the 2013 Goldman Environmental Prize for leadin ...

(United States)

2014

Desmond D'Sa Desmond D'Sa is a South African environmentalist who received the 2014 Goldman Prize. He is known for protesting Environmental justice issues in Durban, South Africa related to access to greenspace and pollution. The region of the city where h ...

(South Africa) *

Ramesh Agrawal Ramesh Agrawal is an Indian social worker, internet café owner and grassroots environmentalist from Chhattisgarh, who is a founder of group Jan Chetana(जन चेतना, meaning people's consciousness). He was awarded the Goldman Environ ...

(India) * Suren Gazaryan (Russia) *

Rudi Putra Rudi Putra is an Indonesian biologist who received a Goldman Environmental Prize in 2014 for his efforts to combat illegal logging, forest encroachment for palm oil production, and policies that open endangered ecosystems to mining and plantatio ...

(Indonesia) * Helen Slottje (United States) * Ruth Buendia (Peru)

2015

* Myint Zaw (Myanmar) *

Marilyn Baptiste Marilyn Baptiste is a former Chief of the Xeni Gwet'in First Nation in British Columbia, Canada. She was awarded the Eugene Rogers Award in 2011 for her role in the RAVEN (Respecting Aboriginal Values & Environmental Needs)#The Tsilhqot'in fight ...

(Canada) *

Jean Wiener Jean Wiener (or Wiéner) (19 March 1896, 14th arrondissement of Paris – 8 June 1982, Paris) was a French pianist and composer. Life Wiener was trained at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied alongside Darius Milhaud, and worked wi ...

(Haiti) *

Phyllis Omido Phyllis Omido (born Phyllis Indiatsi Omido 1978), dubbed the "East African Erin Brockovich", is a Kenyan environmental activist. She was one of 6 people to be awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015. She is known for organizing ...

(Kenya) * Howard Wood (Scotland) *

Berta Cáceres Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores (; 4 March 1971 – 2 March 2016) was a Honduran (Lenca) environmental activist, indigenous leader, and co-founder and coordinator of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH). She won ...

(Honduras)

2016

* Máxima Acuña (Peru) *

Zuzana Čaputová Zuzana Čaputová, (; Strapáková; born 21 June 1973) is a Slovak politician, lawyer and environmental activist. She is the fifth president of Slovakia, a position she has held since 15 June 2019. Čaputová is the first woman to hold the presi ...

(Slovakia) * Luis Jorge Rivera Herrera (Puerto Rico) * Edward Loure (Tanzania) * Leng Ouch (Cambodia) *

Destiny Watford Destiny Watford is an American environmental activist. She won a Goldman Environmental Prize in 2016. Biography Watford was raised in Curtis Bay, Baltimore, Curtis Bay, Maryland, in an area with significant air pollution. While in high school, ...

(United States)

2017

* Wendy Bowman (Australia) *

Rodrigue Mugaruka Katembo Rodrigue Mugaruka Katembo (born 1976 in Katana (DR Congo), Katana, South Kivu, DR Congo) is a park ranger from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was one of the winners of the 2017 Goldman Environmental Prize for his work protecting Virunga ...

(Democratic Republic of the Congo) *mark! Lopez (United States) * Uroš Macerl (Slovenia) *

Prafulla Samantara Prafulla Samantara (born 1952) is an Indian environmental activist from Odisha. Biography Samantara has been a spokesperson for the Dangaria Kandha indigenous people, in their protest against plans for bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri hill range. ...

(India) *

Rodrigo Tot Rodrigo Tot (born c.1958) is a farmer and indigenous leader in Guatemala. He is a member of the Q'eqchi' people. Tot was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots environm ...

(Guatemala)

2018

Manny Calonzo Manny Calonzo is an environmental advocate. Aided by the Ecological Waste Coalition of the Philippines (EcoWaste) – in which he served as their former president and advisor – he was responsible for the Philippine government’s law to nationall ...

(Philippines) *

Francia Márquez Francia Elena Márquez Mina (born 1 December 1981) is a Colombian human-rights and environmental activist and lawyer, who is the 13th and current Vice President of Colombia. She was born in Yolombó, a village in the Cauca Department. She firs ...

(Colombia) * Nguy Thi Khanh (Vietnam) *

LeeAnne Walters LeeAnne Walters is an American environmental activist from Flint, Michigan. She became known for her role in exposing the Flint water crisis. In 2016, Walters was honored with the PEN America's Freedom of Expression Courage Award. The 2017 telev ...

(United States) * Makoma Lekalakala and Liz McDaid (South Africa) * Claire Nouvian (France)

2019

Bayarjargal Agvaantseren Bayarjargal (Bayara) Agvaantseren (born 1969) is a Mongolian conservationist who has campaigned to save the habitat of the snow leopard in an area of the South Gobi Desert which has become a major mining hub. Thanks to her successful efforts t ...

(Mongolia) * Alfred Brownell (Liberia) * Alberto Curamil (Chile) *

Jacqueline Evans Jacqueline Evans (1914–1989) was a British-born Mexican film actress.Murphy p.75 Evans was born on the 17th of January 1914 in Islington, London. She made her first film appearance in the 1946 film ''Walking on Air'' in a minor role. Her first ...

(Cook Islands) *

Linda Garcia Linda Garcia (born c.1969) is an American environmental activist from Vancouver, Washington. In 2013, she heard of plans for a Tesoro Savage oil terminal in the Port of Vancouver, designed to be America's largest. After examining the company's re ...

(United States) *

Ana Colovic Lesoska Ana Čolović Lešoska (born c.1979) is a Macedonian biologist who since 2011 has campaigned against the construction of dams for hydroelectric power production in the Mavrovo National Park in order to safeguard threatened species, including the B ...

(North Macedonia)

2020

* Chibeze Ezekiel (Ghana) * Kristal Ambrose (The Bahamas) *

Leydy Pech Leydy Araceli Pech Marín, known as Leydy Pech, (born 1965) is a Mexican beekeeper and Environmental movement, environmental activist of Maya peoples, Mayan origin. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2020 for her work against the ...

(Mexico) * Lucie Pinson (France) *

Nemonte Nenquimo Nemonte Nenquimo is an Indigenous activist and member of the Waorani Nation from the Amazonian Region of Ecuador. She is the first female president of the Waorani of Pastaza (CONCONAWEP) and co-founder of the Indigenous-led nonprofit organizatio ...

(Ecuador) *Paul Sein Twa (Myanmar)

2021

* Gloria Majiga-Kamoto (Malawi) * Thai Van Nguyen (Vietnam) * Maida Bilal (Bosnia and Herzegovina) * Kimiko Hirata (Japan) * Sharon Lavigne (United States) * Liz Chicaje Churay (Peru)

2022

* Chima Williams (Nigeria) * Niwat Roykaew (Thailand) *

Marjan Minnesma Marjan Minnesma (born 1966) is a Dutch activist. Biography Marjan Minnesma was born and raised in Amsterdam. She holds a degree in international law on climate change. In 2022, she received Goldman Environmental Prize for suing the Dutch gover ...

(Netherlands) * Julien Vincent (Australia) * Nalleli Cobo (United States) *Alex Lucitante and

Alexandra Narváez Trujillo Alexandra Narváez Trujillo is an Ecuadorian scientist and Indigenous leader who advocates for the protection of her community's lands and cultures. She is a professor at the School of Biological Sciences at the Pontifical Catholic University of ...

(Ecuador)

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