The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots environmental activists.

History

Awardees are named 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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. The Prize is often referred to as the Green Nobel''.'' The Goldman Environmental Prize was created in 1989 by philanthropists

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and Rhoda Goldman. 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

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through the year 2020, and

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beginning in 2021. 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. Live ceremonies resumed in 2023, taking place in San Francisco on April 24 and in Washington, D.C., on April 26.

Prize winners

1990

Robert Brown Robert Brown may refer to: Robert Brown (born 1965), British Director, Animator and author Entertainers and artists * Washboard Sam or Robert Brown (1910–1966), American musician and singer * Robert W. Brown (1917–2009), American printmaker ...

(Australia) *

Lois Gibbs Lois Marie Gibbs (born June 25, 1951) is an American environmental activist. As 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 ...

(United States) * Janet Gibson (Belize) * Harrison Ngau Laing (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. Educa ...

(Hungary) * Michael Werikhe (Kenya)

1991

Wangari Muta Maathai Wangari is a name of Kikuyu origin that may refer to: *Wangari Maathai (1940–2011), Kenyan environmental and political activist * Catherine Wangari Wainaina (born 1985), Kenyan beauty pageant contestant *Margaret Wangari Muriuki (born 1986), Keny ...

(Kenya) * Barnens Regnskog (Eha Kern and 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 sp ...

(United States) *

Cath Wallace Catherine C. 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 was awa ...

(New Zealand)

1992

* Jeton Anjain (Marshall Islands) *

Medha Patkar Medha Patkar (born 1 December 1954) is an Indian Social activist working on social issues for tribals, dalits, farmers, labourers and women facing injustice in India. She is an alumna of TISS, a premier institute of social science research in ...

(India) * Wadja Egnankou (Ivory Coast) * Christine Jean (France) * Colleen McCrory (Canada) * Carlos Alberto Ricardo (Brazil)

1993

* Margaret Jacobsohn and 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 Fu Xiaoqing ( zh, s=傅小庆, born 24 August 1941), better known by her pen name Dai Qing ( zh, c=戴晴), is a journalist and activist for China-related issues; most significantly against the Three Gorges Dam Project. She left the Chinese Comm ...

(China) * John Sinclair (Australia) * JoAnn Tall (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 Pachakuti ...

(Ecuador) * Heffa Schücking (Germany) *

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(St. Vincent and the Grenadines)

1995

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

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

(Nigeria)

1996

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

Marina Silva Maria Osmarina Marina da Silva Vaz de Lima (born Maria Osmarina da Silva; 8 February 1958), known as Marina Silva, is a Brazilian politician and environmentalist, currently serving as Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, a position ...

(Brasil) * Albena Simeonova (Bulgaria)

1997

Nick Carter Nickolas Gene Carter (born January 28, 1980) is an American singer, the lead vocalist of the vocal group Backstreet Boys, and an alleged rapist. As of 2015, he has released three solo albums, '' Now or Never'', '' I'm Taking Off'' and '' All A ...

(Zambia) * Loir Botor Dingit (Indonesia) *

Alexander Nikitin Aleksandr Nikitin may refer to: * Aleksandr Nikitin (environmentalist) Alexander Konstantinovich Nikitin (; born 16 May 1952) is a Russian former submarine officer and nuclear safety inspector turned environmentalist. In 1996 he was accused of esp ...

(Russia) * Juan Pablo Orrego (Chile) * Fuiono Senio and

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. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots environmental activists. History Awardees are named from each of t ...

(United States)

1998

* Anna Giordano (Italy) * Kory Johnson (United States) * Berito Kuwaru'wa (Colombia) *

Atherton Martin Atherton Martin is a Dominican agronomist and environmentalist. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots environmental activists. History Awardees are named from ...

(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. History Awardees are named fr ...

(Japan)

1999

* Jacqui Katona and Yvonne Margarula (Australia) * Michal Kravcik (Slovakia) *

Bernard Martin Bernard Martin may refer to: * Bernard Martin (New Zealand politician) (1882–1956), New Zealand politician of the Labour Party * Bernard F. Martin (1845–1914), American politician from Manhattan, New York City * Bernard Martin (rugby league) ...

(Canada) * Samuel Nguiffo (Cameroon) * Jorge Varela (Honduras) * Ka Hsaw Wa (Myanmar)

2000

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

(Uzbekistan) *

Elias Diaz Peña Elias ( ; ) is the hellenized version for the name of Elijah (; ; , or ), a prophet in the Northern Kingdom of Israel in the 9th century BC, mentioned in several holy books. Due to Elias' role in the scriptures and to many later associated traditi ...

and

Oscar Rivas Oscar, OSCAR, or The Oscar may refer to: People and fictional and mythical characters * Oscar (given name), including lists of people and fictional characters named Oscar, Óscar or Oskar * Oscar (footballer, born 1954), Brazilian footballer J ...

(Paraguay) * Vera Mischenko (Russia) * Rodolfo Montiel Flores (Mexico) *

Alexander Peal Alexander Louis Peal is a Liberian forester and conservationist who won the prestigious international Goldman Environmental Prize in 2000 for his efforts to protect and preserve the biodiversity and natural heritage of his home country. Peal, wo ...

(Liberia) * Nat Quansah (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 ...

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

Oscar Olivera Oscar Olivera Foronda (born 1955) is a Bolivian union leader who 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. He was also one ...

(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 at Virungas mountains, during the war an ...

(Rwanda) * Bruno Van Peteghem (New Caledonia)

2002

* Pisit Charnsnoh (Thailand) *

Sarah James Sarah Agnes James (born 1946) is a Neets'aii Gwich'in activist from Arctic Village, Alaska, USA, but was born in Fort Yukon "because that is where the hospital was. I grew up part of the time in Fort Yukon and Salmon River, but most of the time ...

and

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 Chi ...

(United States) *

Fatima Jibrell Fatima Jibrell (, ; 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 Adeso), co-founder of Sun Fire Cooking, and wa ...

(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 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 ...

(Guyana) *

Jadwiga Łopata Jadwiga Łopata is an organic farmer. She lives near Kraków, Poland. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots environmental activists. History Awardees are ...

(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 coal miners, she worked from an early age at minimum wa ...

(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 Ei ...

and Eileen Wani Wingfield (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 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 was ...

(Peru) *

Odigha Odigha Odigha Odigha is a Nigerian educator, environmentalist and activist. He is the founder of Nigeria NGO Coalition for the Environment. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2003, for his efforts on protection of the rainforests of Cross ...

(Nigeria)

2004

* Rudolf Amenga-Etego (Ghana) * Rashida Bee 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 p ...

(India) * Libia Grueso (Colombia) * Manana Kochladze (Georgia) * Demetrio do Amaral de Carvalho (East Timor) * Margie Richard (United States)

2005

Isidro Baldenegro López Isidro Baldenegro López ( – 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 Balden ...

(Mexico) * Kaisha Atakhanova (Kazakhstan) * Jean-Baptiste Chavannes (Haiti) * Stephanie Danielle Roth (Romania) * Corneille Ewango (Congo) *

José Andrés Tamayo Cortez José Andrés Tamayo Cortez (born 1958 in San Pedro, Honduras) is a Honduran Catholic priest and environmentalist, a leader of the Environmental Movement of Olancho and "the public face of the country's environmental movement". 2005 he was awarded ...

(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 United N ...

(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 dam A d ...

(China) * Olya Melen (Ukraine) * Anne Kajir (Papua New Guinea) * Craig E. Williams (United States) * Tarcisio Feitosa da Silva (Brazil)

2007

* Sophia Rabliauskas (Manitoba, Canada) *

Hammerskjoeld Simwinga Hammerskjoeld Simwinga (born 1963) is a Zambian Environmentalist. He received the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2007 for his efforts to stop elephant poaching through community economic initiatives. He was named after former United Nations Secret ...

(Zambia) *

Tsetsgeegiin Mönkhbayar Tsetsgeegiin Mönkhbayar () 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 meetings for some time. In 2001 he co-foun ...

(Mongolia) * Julio Cusurichi Palacios (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 (mag ...

(Iceland)

2008

* Pablo Fajardo and Luis Yanza (Ecuador) * Jesus Leon Santos (Oaxaca, Mexico) *

Rosa Hilda Ramos Rosa Hilda Ramos is the second Puerto Rican recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize, a prestigious award given to grassroots environmentalists from around the world and popularly known as the "Green Nobel prize". A housewife and environmenta ...

(Puerto Rico) * Feliciano dos Santos (Mozambique) * Marina Rikhvanova (Russia) * Ignace Schops from "Hoge Kempen National Park" (Belgium)

2009

Maria Gunnoe Maria Gunnoe (born 1968) is a native West Virginian 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 ...

, 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, located on the Gabon Estuary. Libreville occupies of the northwestern province of Estuaire Province, Estuaire. Libreville is also a port on the Gabon Estuary, near the Gulf of Guinea. A ...

(Gabon) *

Rizwana Hasan Syeda Rizwana Hasan (born 15 January 1968) is a Bangladeshi lawyer and environmentalist. She is currently an adviser to the 2024 Bangladesh interim government, interim government of Bangladesh and as Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate ...

Dhaka Dhaka ( or ; , ), List of renamed places in Bangladesh, formerly known as Dacca, is the capital city, capital and list of cities and towns in Bangladesh, largest city of Bangladesh. It is one of the list of largest cities, largest and list o ...

(Bangladesh) *

Olga Speranskaya Olga Speranskaya () 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 since 1997 and holds a master's degree in Ge ...

Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...

(Russia) * Yuyun Ismawati (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 larg ...

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 l ...

(Pikin Slee village and Paramaribo, Suriname)

2010

* Thuli Brilliance Makama (Swaziland) * Tuy Sereivathana (Cambodia) * Małgorzata Górska (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 Agricultu ...

(Cuba) * Lynn Henning (United States) * Randall Arauz (Costa Rica)

2011

* Raoul du Toit, (Zimbabwe) * Dmitry Lisitsyn (Russia) * Ursula Sladek (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. History ...

(United States) * Francisco Pineda (El Salvador)

2012

* Ikal Angelei (Kenya) * Ma Jun (China) * Yevgeniya Chirikova (Russia) * Edwin Gariguez (Philippines) * Caroline Cannon (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 Aleta Baun is an 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 sites in “weaving ...

(Indonesia) * Jonathan Deal (South Africa) * Rossano Ercolini (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. ...

(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 leading ...

(United States)

2014

* Desmond D'Sa (South Africa) * Ramesh Agrawal (India) * Suren Gazaryan (Russia) * Rudi Putra (Indonesia) * Helen Slottje (United States) * Ruth Buendía (Peru)

2015

* Myint Zaw (Myanmar) * Marilyn Baptiste (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 wit ...

(Haiti) * Phyllis Omido (Kenya) * Howard Wood (Scotland) *

Berta Cáceres Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores (; 4 March 1971 – 3 March 2016) was a Honduran (Lenca) environmental activist, indigenous leader, co-founder and coordinator of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH). She won th ...

(Honduras)

2016

Máxima Acuña Máxima Acuña is a Peruvians, Peruvian subsistence farmer and environmentalist, who is known for her fight to remain on land wanted for a new mine, the Conga Project, Conga Mine, enduring years of violent intimidation by Newmont Mining Corporati ...

(Peru) *

Zuzana Čaputová Zuzana Čaputová (; Strapáková; born 21 June 1973) is a Slovak politician, lawyer and environmental activist who served as the fifth president of Slovakia from 2019 to 2024. Čaputová is the first woman to hold the presidency, as well as the ...

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

2017

* Wendy Bowman (Australia) * Rodrigue Mugaruka Katembo (Democratic Republic of the Congo) *

mark! Lopez Mark Lopez (born 1985 or 1986), better known as mark! Lopez, is an American community organizer and activist from Los Angeles County, California. Lopez is best known for having persuaded the state of California to provide lead testing and clean ...

(United States) *

Uroš Macerl Uroš Macerl (born 4 July 1968) is an Organic farming, organic farmer and Environmentalism, environmental activist from Slovenia. He won the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2017 after leading a successful legal challenge against the company operat ...

(Slovenia) * Prafulla Samantara (India) * Rodrigo Tot (Guatemala)

2018

* Manny Calonzo (Philippines) *

Francia Márquez Francia Elena Márquez Mina (born 1 December 1981) is a Colombia, Colombian human-rights and environmental activist, feminist, lawyer and politician who is the 13th and current Vice President of Colombia since 2022. She was born in Yolombó (vill ...

(Colombia) * Nguy Thi Khanh (Vietnam) * LeeAnne Walters (United States) * Makoma Lekalakala and Liz McDaid (South Africa) * Claire Nouvian (France)

2019

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

(Mongolia) * Alfred Brownell (Liberia) * Alberto Curamil (Chile) * Jacqueline Evans (Cook Islands) * Linda Garcia (United States) * Ana Colovic Lesoska (North Macedonia)

2020

* Chibeze Ezekiel (Ghana) * Kristal Ambrose (The Bahamas) * Leydy Pech (Mexico) * Lucie Pinson (France) *

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

(Ecuador) * Paul Sein Twa (Myanmar)

2021

* Gloria Majiga-Kamoto (Malawi) * Nguyễn Văn Thái (Vietnam) * Maida Bilal (Bosnia and Herzegovina) * Kimiko Hirata (Japan) *

Sharon Lavigne Sharon Lavigne (born May 1950) is an American 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, a 2 ...

(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 a ...

(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 govern ...

(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 t ...

(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 o ...

(Ecuador)

2023

Zafer Kızılkaya Zafer Ali Kızılkaya (born 1969) is a Turkish marine advocate and engineer who is credited for expanding marine protected areas (MPAs) along Turkey's Mediterranean coast. Kızılkaya was born in Ankara in 1969. Growing up, he watched Jacques Cou ...

(Turkey) * Alessandra Korap Munduruku (Brazil) *

Chilekwa Mumba Chilekwa Mumba (born 1984 or 1985) is a Zambian community organizer and environmental activist. He is known for having organized a successful lawsuit against UK-based mining company Vedanta Resources Vedanta Resources Limited is a diversif ...

(Zambia) * Tero Mustonen (Finland) * Delima Silalahi (Indonesia) *

Diane Wilson Diane Wilson (born October 17, 1948) is an American environmental activist, an anti-war activist, and an author. In 1989, she was a shrimp boat captain in Calhoun County, Texas, and she saw an Associated Press article saying that the county had ...

(United States)

2024

* Sinegugu Zukulu and Nonhle Mbuthuma (South Africa) * Alok Shukla (India) * Teresa Vicente (Spain) * Murrawah Maroochy Johnson (Australia) * Andrea Vidaurre (United States) * Marcel Gomes (Brazil)

2025

* (Tunisia) * Batmunkh Luvsandash (Mongolia) * Besjana Guri and Olsi Nika (Albania) * Carlos Mallo Molina (Canary Islands) * Laurene Allen (United States) * Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari (Peru)

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