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The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots environmental 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 San Francisco, California. It is also called the ''Green Nobel.'' The Goldman Environmental Prize was created in 1989 by philanthropists Richard and Rhoda Goldman. , 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 Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is the List of awards and nominations received by Robert Redford, recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Awards, Academy Award from four nomi ...
and (beginning in 2021) Sigourney Weaver. The 2019 Goldman Environmental Prize ceremony marking the 30th anniversary took place on April 29, 2019, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco. A second award ceremony took place on May 1, 2019, in Washington, D.C. The 2020, 2021, and 2022 Goldman Environmental Prize ceremonies took place online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 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 (United States) *
Janet Gibson Janet Patricia Gibson is a biologist and zoologist from Belize. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1990 for her efforts on conservation of the marine ecosystems along the Belizean coast, in particular the barrier reef system. The ...
(Belize) *
Harrison Ngau Laing Harrison Ngau Laing is a Malaysian environmentalist and politician, a member of the Kayan tribe. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1990 for his work to prevent deforestation of the Sarawak region. He was a member of the Malay ...
(Malaysia) *
János Vargha János Vargha (born 1949) is a Hungarian biologist, environmentalist and photographer. He organized opposition in particular against the projected Nagymaros dam in the Danube river system. He founded Duna Kör, an environmental movement. Educat ...
(Hungary) * Michael Werikhe (Kenya)


1991

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Wangari Muta Maathai Wangarĩ Muta Maathai (; 1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011) was a Kenyan social, Natural environment, environmental and a political activist and the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. As a beneficiary of the Kennedy Airlift, ...
(Kenya) *
Barnens Regnskog Barnens Regnskog (Children's rainforest) is a Swedish nonprofit organization established in 1987, which is dedicated to raising funds for rainforest preservation. The charity supports preservation projects in Thailand, Guatemala, Belize, Costa Rica ...
(Eha Kern & Roland Tiensuu) (Sweden) *
Evaristo Nugkuag Evaristo Nugkuag Ikanan (born 1950) is a Peruvian activist for environmental and indigenous people causes. He is a member of the Aguaruna people. He organized the ''Alliance of the Indian Peoples of the Peruvian Amazon'' (AIDESEP) and ''Coordinad ...
(Peru) *
Yoichi Kuroda is a Japanese environmentalist. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1991 for his campaign against Japan's irresponsible use of tropical hardwood Hardwood is wood from dicot trees. These are usually found in broad-leaved temper ...
(Japan) * Samuel LaBudde (United States) * Cath Wallace (New Zealand)


1992

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Jeton Anjain Jeton Anjain (25 March 1933 – 1993) was a Minister of Health and a senator of the Marshall Islands Parliament. He received the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1992, for his efforts to help people from the Rongelap Atoll, which was subject to nucl ...
(Marshall Islands) * Medha Patkar (India) *
Wadja Egnankou Wadja Egnankou is a scientist from Côte d'Ivoire, a researcher at the University of Abidjan. He received the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1992 for his efforts to protect the mangrove forest Mangrove forests, also called mangrove swamps, mangr ...
(Ivory Coast) *
Christine Jean Christine Jean (born 1957 in Nantes) is a French biologist and environmental activist. She was dubbed "Madame Loire" by the French press. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1992 for her efforts on preserving the river Loire, the l ...
(France) * Colleen McCrory (Canada) *
Carlos Alberto Ricardo Carlos Alberto Ricardo is a Brazilian environment pioneer. 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 geogra ...
(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 (Namibia) *
Juan Mayr Juan Mayr Maldonado (born 27 May 1952) is a Colombian photographer and environmentalist who served as Ambassador of Colombia to Germany from 2011 to 2016. From 1993 to 1996, Mayr was elected Vice President of the World Conservation Union. In 199 ...
(Colombia) * Dai Qing (China) * John Sinclair (Australia) * JoAnn Tall (United States) *
Sviatoslav Zabelin Sviatoslav Zabelin (born September 23, 1950) is a Russian environmentalist. He is founder of the environmentalist network ''Socio-Ecological Union''. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize award ...
(Russia)


1994

* Matthew Coon Come (Canada) *
Tuenjai Deetes Tuenjai Deetes ( th, เตือนใจ ดีเทศน์, ; born 8 April 1952), formerly Tuenjai Kunjara na Ayudhya ( th, เตือนใจ กุญชร ณ อยุธยา, ), (Thailand) received the Global 500 Roll of Honour in ...
(Thailand) * Laila Iskander Kamel (Egypt) * Luis Macas (Ecuador) * Heffa Schücking (Germany) * Andrew Simmons (St. Vincent and the Grenadines)


1995

*
Aurora Castillo Aurora Castillo (1914 – April 30, 1998) known as "''la doña'' — a title of respect given to her by her largely Latino community — was an American environmentalist and community activist from Los Angeles, California. She co-founded the Mothe ...
(United States) * Yul Choi (South Korea) * Noah Idechong (Palau) *
Emma Must Emma Must (born 1966) is an English environmental activist, teacher, and poetPoetry News< ...
(England) * Ricardo Navarro (El Salvador) * Ken Saro-Wiwa (Nigeria)


1996

* Ndyakira Amooti (Uganda) * Bill Ballantine (New Zealand) *
Edwin Bustillos Edwin Bustillos García (May 16, 1964 – February 21, 2003) was a Mexican human rights activist, environmentalist, and agricultural engineer from the Sierra Madre in Mexico.Fort Lewis College (Retrieved on January 7, 2012) He is partially of Tara ...
(Mexico) * M.C. Mehta (India) * Marina Silva (Brasil) *
Albena Simeonova Albena Simeonova (born 1964) is a Bulgarian Environmental activism, environmental activist. She is a key figure in the opposition to the Bulgarian Belene nuclear power plant. Education / Profession Albena Simeonova studied at the Sofia Universi ...
(Bulgaria)


1997

*
Nick Carter Nick or Nicholas Carter may refer to: Athletes * Nick Carter (athlete) (1902–1997), track and field athlete from United States, who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics * Nick Carter (baseball) (1879–1961), Major League Baseball pitcher for t ...
(Zambia) * Loir Botor Dingit (Indonesia) * Alexander Nikitin (Russia) * Juan Pablo Orrego (Chile) * Fuiono Senio & Paul Alan Cox (Western Samoa) * Terri Swearingen (United States)


1998

* Anna Giordano (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 Berito Kuwaru'wa is a member of the Colombian U'wa people. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1998Goldman Environmental PrizeBerito Kuwaru'wa (Retrieved on November 28, 2007) for his role as spokesperson in conflicts between the U' ...
(Colombia) * Atherton Martin (Commonwealth of Dominica) * Sven "Bobby" Peek (South Africa) * Hirofumi Yamashita (Japan)


1999

* Jacqui Katona & Yvonne Margarula (Australia) *
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(Slovakia) * Bernard Martin (Canada) * Samuel Nguiffo (Cameroon) * Jorge Varela (Honduras) *
Ka Hsaw Wa Ka Hsaw Wa (born 1970) is a Burmese human rights activist. He is a member of the Karen indigenous group. Along with his wife, environmental and human rights attorney Katie Redford, he is the co-founder and co-director of EarthRights International ...
(Myanmar)


2000

* Oral Ataniyazova (Uzbekistan) * Elias Diaz Peña & Oscar Rivas (Paraguay) *
Vera Mischenko Vera Mischenko is a Russian attorney. She introduced the concept of public interest environmental law in Russia and in 1991 co-founded ''Ecojuris'', Russia's first public interest law firm. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2000. ...
(Russia) * Rodolfo Montiel Flores (Mexico) * Alexander Peal (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 &
Steve Wilson (reporter) Steve Wilson is an American news reporter. Currently running his own nonprofit investigative reporting group, he is best known for his whistleblower lawsuit with then-wife Jane Akre against WTVT in 1997 and his work as WXYZ-TV's Chief Investigati ...
(United States) *
Yosepha Alomang Yosepha Alomang (Mama Yosepha) is from the Indonesian province of Papua, one of the most biologically diverse places on the planet. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2001, for her efforts on organizing her community to resist th ...
(Indonesia) * Giorgos Catsadorakis & Myrsini Malakou (Greece) * Oscar Olivera (Bolivia) * Eugène Rutagarama (Rwanda) * Bruno Van Peteghem (New Caledonia)


2002

* Pisit Charnsnoh (Thailand) * Sarah James &
Jonathon Solomon Jonathon Solomon (March 10, 1932 – July 13, 2006) was a native Gwich'in from Fort Yukon, Alaska, USA, and a member of the U.S. delegation to the International Porcupine Caribou Agreement between Canada and U.S. He served as the Traditional Ch ...
(United States) * Fatima Jibrell (Somalia) * Alexis Massol González (Puerto Rico) *
Norma Kassi Norma Kassi (born April 10, 1954) is a native Gwich'in from Yukon Territory, Canada, and a former member of the Yukon Legislative Assembly and former chief of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation.Jean La Rose (Guyana) *
Jadwiga Łopata Jadwiga Łopata is an organic farmer. She lives near Kraków, Poland. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2002, for her works on rural protection.Goldman Environmental PrizeJadwiga Lopata (Retrieved on November 10, 2007) She is c ...
(Poland)


2003

* Julia Bonds (United States) *
Pedro Arrojo-Agudo Pedro Arrojo-Agudo is a Spanish physicist, economist, environmentalist, and a professor at the University of Zaragoza. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots env ...
(Spain) * Eileen Kampakuta Brown & Eileen Wani Wingfield (Australia) * Von Hernandez (Philippines) *
Maria Elena Foronda Farro Maria Elena Foronda Farro (born January 4, 1959) is a Peruvian sociologist and environmentalist. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2003, for her campaigns of improving waste treatment from the country's fishmeal industry. She wa ...
(Peru) * Odigha Odigha (Nigeria)


2004

* Rudolf Amenga-Etego (Ghana) * Rashida Bee and Champa Devi Shukla (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 (Georgia) * Demetrio do Amaral de Carvalho (East Timor) * Margie Richard (United States)


2005

*
Isidro Baldenegro López Isidro Baldenegro López (c. 1966 – 15 January 2017) was a farmer and community leader of Mexico's indigenous Tarahumara people in Sierra Madre and an environmental activist who fought against unregulated logging in his region. Early life ...
(Mexico) * Kaisha Atakhanova (Kazakhstan) *
Jean-Baptiste Chavannes Jean-Baptiste Chavannes ( – 23 February 1791) was a Dominican Creole abolitionist, and rebel soldier. Biography He was the son of rich mulatto parents, and received a good education. In 1778 the expedition under d'Estaing, who sent the Chas ...
(Haiti) * Stephanie Danielle Roth (Romania) * Corneille Ewango (Congo) * José Andrés Tamayo Cortez (Honduras)


2006

*
Silas Kpanan’ Siakor Silas Kpanan'Ayoung Siakor is a Liberian environmentalist. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2006, for his revealing of illegal logging in Liberia and its connection to the civil war, leading to export sanctions from the Unit ...
(Liberia) * Yu Xiaogang (China) * Olya Melen (Ukraine) *
Anne Kajir Anne Kajir (born c. 1974) is an attorney from Papua New Guinea. She has uncovered evidence of widespread corruption in the Papua New Guinea government, that allowed illegal logging in tropical forests. Kajir was awarded the Goldman Environmenta ...
(Papua New Guinea) * Craig E. Williams (United States) * Tarcisio Feitosa da Silva (Brazil)


2007

* Sophia Rabliauskas (Manitoba, Canada) * Hammerskjoeld Simwinga (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 ...
(Mongolia) *
Julio Cusurichi Palacios Julio Cusurichi Palacios is a leading Peruvian environmentalist from the Madre de Dios region of Peru. He was one of the recipients of the 2007 Goldman Environmental Prize. References External links 2007 Goldman Environmental Prize winner
(Peru) * Willie Corduff (Ireland) *
Orri Vigfússon Orri Vigfússon (10 July 1942 – 1 July 2017) was an Icelandic entrepreneur and environmentalist. His stated objective was to "restore the abundance of wild salmon that formerly existed on both sides of the North Atlantic". In 2004 ''Time'' m ...
(Iceland)


2008

* Pablo Fajardo and
Luis Yanza Luis Yanza (born 1962 in Gualaceo) is an environmental activist from Ecuador, of Cofán descent. He serves as president of the Frente de Defensa de la Amazonia (Amazon Defense Front), an NGO representing the interests of the campesinos and indig ...
(Ecuador) * Jesus Leon Santos (Oaxaca, Mexico) * Rosa Hilda Ramos (Puerto Rico) * Feliciano dos Santos (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 Ignace Schops (born 1964) is a Belgian environmentalist, a biodiversity, landscaping and herpetology expert. He is Director of the Belgian NGO Regionaal Landschap Kempen en Maasland (RLKM), and was the President of the largest network on the natu ...
from "Hoge Kempen National Park" (Belgium)


2009

* Maria Gunnoe, Bob White, West Virginia (United States) *
Marc Ona Marc Ona Essangui is founder of the environmental NGO Brainforest and president of Environment Gabon, a network of NGOs. Marc Ona Essangui led efforts to expose agreements behind a Chinese mining project in Gabon, a country in West Central Africa, ...
,
Libreville Libreville is the capital and largest city of Gabon. Occupying in the northwestern province of Estuaire, Libreville is a port on the Komo River, near the Gulf of Guinea. As of the 2013 census, its population was 703,904. The area has been inh ...
(Gabon) *
Rizwana Hasan Syeda Rizwana Hasan (born 15 January 1968) is a Bangladeshi attorney and environmentalist. She has particularly focused on regulations for the shipbreaking industry in Bangladesh, and was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2009. She was ...
, Dhaka (Bangladesh) *
Olga Speranskaya Olga Speranskaya (russian: Ольга Сперанская) is a Russian scientist and environmentalist. She has been the Director of the Chemical Safety Program at the Eco-Accord Center for Environment and Sustainable Development in Moscow sinc ...
, Moscow (Russia) *
Yuyun Ismawati Yuyun Ismawati (born 1964) is an Indonesian environmental engineer. She has worked on design of city and rural water supply systems, and later on designing systems for safe waste management. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize The G ...
(Bali, Indonesia) *
Wanze Eduards Wanze Eduards is a Saramaka leader from the Republic of Suriname for the village of Pikin Slee. During the 1990s logging companies encroached on the village of Pikin Santi. Extensive flooding caused by faulty bridging resulted in the loss of large ...
and
Hugo Jabini Hugo Jabini is a Saramaka Maroon politician and environmental leader from Suriname. In 1998 he became the spokesman of the Association of Saamaka Authorities (Dutch acronym VSG). In 2007 he and Wanze Eduards were part of the VSG team that won an la ...
(Pikin Slee village and Paramaribo, Suriname)


2010

*
Thuli Brilliance Makama Thuli Brilliance Makama is a Swazi environmental attorney. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2010. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Swazi environmentalists Swazi women environmentalists ...
(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 Pod ...
(Poland) *
Humberto Ríos Labrada Humberto Ríos Labrada is a Cuban folk musician, agricultural scientist and environmentalist. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2010, for his work for biodiversity and sustainable development of Cuban agriculture Agriculture o ...
(Cuba) * Lynn Henning (United States) *
Randall Arauz Randall Arauz is an environmentalist working in Costa Rica Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República de Costa Rica), is a country in the Central American region of North America, bor ...
(Costa Rica)


2011

* Raoul du Toit, (Zimbabwe) * Dmitry Lisitsyn (Russia) * Ursula Sladek (Germany) * Prigi Arisandi (Indonesia) * Hilton Kelley (United States) * Francisco Pineda (El Salvador)


2012

*
Ikal Angelei Ikal Angelei is a Kenyan politician and environmentalist. She was born in Kitale. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2012, in particular for her voicing of environmental implications of the Gilgel Gibe III Dam, speaking on beha ...
(Kenya) *
Ma Jun Ma Jun, may refer to: *Ma Jun (historian) (born 1953), Chinese historian. *Ma Jun (footballer) (born 1989), Chinese footballer. *Ma Jun (environmentalist) (born 1968), Chinese environmentalist. *Ma Jun (engineer) (born 1962), Chinese environmental ...
(China) * Yevgeniya Chirikova (Russia) * Edwin Gariguez (Philippines) *
Caroline Cannon Caroline Cannon or Aqugaq is an Iñupiaq leader and environmentalist from Point Hope, Alaska. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2012 for her fight for protection of marine ecosystems against pollution from the petroleum industry. ...
(United States) * Sofia Gatica (Argentina)


2013

*
Azzam Alwash Azzam Alwash (1958; in Arabic: عزام علواش ''ʻAzām ʻAlwāš'') is an Iraqi hydraulic engineer and environmentalist. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2013, in particular for his efforts on restoring salt marshes in sout ...
(Iraq) * Aleta Baun (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 (Colombia) * Kimberly Wasserman (United States)


2014

* Desmond D'Sa (South Africa) * Ramesh Agrawal (India) *
Suren Gazaryan Suren Gazaryan (born Suren Vladimirovich Gazaryan, Russian: Сурен Владимирович Газарян) (born 8 July 1974) is a Russian zoologist, dissident, public figure, and former member of The Environmental Watch on North Caucasus. ...
(Russia) * Rudi Putra (Indonesia) * Helen Slottje (United States) *
Ruth Buendia Ruth (or its variants) may refer to: Places France * Château de Ruthie, castle in the commune of Aussurucq in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département of France Switzerland * Ruth, a hamlet in Cologny United States * Ruth, Alabama * Ruth, Arka ...
(Peru)


2015

*
Myint Zaw Myint Zaw is a Burmese journalist and activist. He was awarded the 2015 Goldman Environment Prize for Asia, for bringing forward environmental and social impacts from the planned Myitsone Dam, a large Irrawaddy River The Irrawaddy River ( A ...
(Myanmar) * Marilyn Baptiste (Canada) * Jean Wiener (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 (Honduras)


2016

* Máxima Acuña (Peru) * Zuzana Čaputová (Slovakia) * Luis Jorge Rivera Herrera (Puerto Rico) *
Edward Loure Edward Loure is a Tanzanian tribal activist. He is a member of the Maasai people. Loure was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2016, for his efforts of defending the Maasaian traditional way of life, which has been threatened by commercia ...
(Tanzania) * Leng Ouch (Cambodia) * Destiny Watford (United States)


2017

* Wendy Bowman (Australia) * Rodrigue Mugaruka Katembo (Democratic Republic of the Congo) *mark! Lopez (United States) * Uroš Macerl (Slovenia) * Prafulla Samantara (India) * Rodrigo Tot (Guatemala)


2018

* Manny Calonzo (Philippines) * Francia Márquez (Colombia) * Nguy Thi Khanh (Vietnam) * LeeAnne Walters (United States) * Makoma Lekalakala and Liz McDaid (South Africa) *
Claire Nouvian Claire Nouvian (born 19 March 1974) is a French environmental activist, journalist, television producer, film director and organizational leader. Claire Nouvian was born in Bordeaux. After a career in journalism, she engaged in advocacy for protec ...
(France)


2019

* Bayarjargal Agvaantseren (Mongolia) * Alfred Brownell (Liberia) * Alberto Curamil (Chile) * Jacqueline Evans (Cook Islands) * Linda Garcia (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 ...
(North Macedonia)


2020

* Chibeze Ezekiel (Ghana) * Kristal Ambrose (The Bahamas) * Leydy Pech (Mexico) * Lucie Pinson (France) * Nemonte Nenquimo (Ecuador) *Paul Sein Twa (Myanmar)


2021

* Gloria Majiga-Kamoto (Malawi) * Thai Van Nguyen (Vietnam) * Maida Bilal (Bosnia and Herzegovina) * Kimiko Hirata (Japan) *
Sharon Lavigne Sharon Lavigne (born May 1950) is an environmental justice activist in Louisiana focused on combating petrochemical complexes in Cancer Alley. She is the 2022 recipient of the Laetare Medal, the highest honor for American Catholics, and a 20 ...
(United States) * Liz Chicaje Churay (Peru)


2022

*
Chima Williams Chima Williams is an environmental activist, an environmental lawyer who fights environmental injustice and held a multinational company like Shell to pay for damages they have caused and inflicted on some communities in the Niger-Delta. He is al ...
(Nigeria) * Niwat Roykaew (Thailand) * Marjan Minnesma (Netherlands) * Julien Vincent (Australia) *
Nalleli Cobo Nalleli Cobo is an American activist. Biography Nalleli Cobo was raised in South Los Angeles in a Latino family. Like many of her neighbors and family members, she grew up suffering a range of severe ill-health symptoms medically attributed to ...
(United States) *Alex Lucitante and Alexandra Narváez Trujillo (Ecuador)


See also

* Environmental Media Awards * Global 500 Roll of Honour * Goldman School of Public Policy * Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment * Heroes of the Environment * Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement * List of people associated with renewable energy * List of environmental awards


References


External links

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