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Goldman Environmental Prize


Courtesy Goldman Foundation 

                                   2009 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

 

The Goldman Environmental Prizes were established in 1990 by insurance executive Richard Goldman. The prizes are presented each April (to coincide with Earth Day) and, according to the Goldman Foundation, are presented to “grassroots environmental heroes from each of the world’s six inhabited continental regions. They are women and men from isolated villages and inner cities—grandmothers, farmers, school teachers, lawyers, indigenous chiefs and religious leaders—who have made an extraordinary commitment to protecting our natural environment, often at great personal risk. They demonstrate that ordinary people can make an extraordinary difference.”

Winners receive:
  • International recognition that enhances their credibility
  • Worldwide visibility for the issues they champion
  • Financial support of $150,000 to pursue their vision of a renewed and protected environment

WINNERS

2009 Wanze Eduards
Suriname
2009 Maria Gunnoe
USA
2009 Syeda Rizwana Hasan
Bangladesh
2009 Yuyun Ismawati
Indonesia
2009 S. Hugo Jabini
Suriname
2009 Marc Ona Essangui
Gabon
2009 Olga Speranskaya
Russia
2008 Jesús León Santos
Mexico
2008 Pablo Fajardo Mendoza
Ecuador
2008 Rosa Hilda Ramos
Puerto Rico
2008 Marina Rikhvanova
Russia
2008 Feliciano dos Santos
Mozambique
2008 Ignace Schops
Belgium
2008 Luis Yanza
Ecuador
2007 Willie Corduff
Ireland
2007 Julio Cusurichi Palacios
Peru
2007 Tsetsegee Munkhbayar
Mongolia
2007 Sophia Rabliauskas
Canada
2007 Hammerskjoeld Simwinga
Zambia
2007 Orri Vigfússon
Iceland
2006 Tarcísio Feitosa da Silva
Brazil
2006 Anne Kajir
Papua New Guinea
2006 Olya Melen
Ukraine
2006 Silas Kpanan’Ayoung Siakor
Liberia
2006 Craig E. Williams
United States
2006 Yu Xiaogang
China
2005 Kaisha Atakhanova
Kazakhstan
2005 Corneille E.N. Ewango
Democratic Republic of Congo
2005 Chavannes Jean-Baptiste
Haiti
2005 Isidro Baldenegro López
Mexico
2005 Stephanie Danielle Roth
Romania
2005 Father José Andrés Tamayo
Honduras
2004 Rudolf Amenga-Etego
Ghana
2004 Rashida Bee
India
2004 Demetrio do Amaral de Carvalho
East Timor
2004 Margie Eugene-Richard
United States
2004 Libia Grueso
Colombia
2004 Manana Kochladze
Georgia
2004 Champa Devi Shukla
India
2003 Pedro Arrojo-Agudo
Spain
2003 Julia Bonds
United States
2003 Eileen Kampakuta Brown
Australia
2003 Maria Elena Foronda Farro
Peru
2003 Von Hernandez
Philippines
2003 Odigha Odigha
Nigeria
2003 Eileen Wani Wingfield
Australia
2002 Pisit Charnsnoh
Thailand
2002 Sarah James
United States
2002 Fatima Jibrell
Somalia
2002 Norma Kassi
United States
2002 Jean La Rose
Guyana
2002 Jadwiga Lopata
Poland
2002 Alexis Massol-González
Puerto Rico
2002 Jonathon Solomon
United States
2001 Jane Akre
United States
2001 Yosepha Alomang
Indonesia
2001 Giorgos Catsadorakis
Greece
2001 Myrsini Malakou
Greece
2001 Oscar Olivera
Bolivia
2001 Eugène Rutagarama
Rwanda
2001 Bruno Van Peteghem
New Caledonia
2001 Steve Wilson
United States
2000 Oral Ataniyazova
Uzbekistan
2000 Elias Diaz Peña
Paraguay
2000 Vera Mischenko
Russia
2000 Rodolfo Montiel Flores
Mexico
2000 Alexander Peal
Liberia
2000 Nat Quansah
Madagascar
2000 Oscar Rivas
Paraguay
1999 Ka Hsaw Wa
Burma
1999 Jacqui Katona
Australia
1999 Michal Kravcik
Slovakia
1999 Yvonne Margarula
Australia
1999 Bernard Martin
Canada
1999 Samuel Nguiffo
Cameroon
1999 Jorge Varela
Honduras
1998 Anna Giordano
Italy
1998 Kory Johnson
United States
1998 Berito Kuwaru'wa
Colombia
1998 Atherton Martin
Dominica
1998 Sven Peek
South Africa
1998 Hirofumi Yamashita
Japan
1997 Nick Carter
Zambia
1997 Paul Cox
Western Samoa
1997 Loir Botor Dingit
Indonesia
1997 Alexander Nikitin
Russia
1997 Juan Pablo Orrego
Chile
1997 Funio Senio
Western Samoa
1997 Terri Swearingen
United States
1996 Ndyakira Amooti
Uganda
1996 Bill Ballantine
New Zealand
1996 Edwin Bustillos
Mexico
1996 M.C. Mehta
India
1996 Marina Silva
Brazil
1996 Albena Simeonova
Bulgaria
1995 Aurora Castillo
United States
1995 Yul Choi
South Korea
1995 Noah Idechong
Palau
1995 Emma Must
England
1995 Ricardo Navarro
El Salvador
1995 Ken Saro-Wiwa
Nigeria
1994 Matthew Coon Come
Canada
1994 Tuenjai Deetes
Thailand
1994 Laila Iskandar Kamel
Egypt
1994 Luis Macas
Ecuador
1994 Heffa Schuecking
Germany
1994 Andrew Simmons
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
1993 Margaret Jacobsohn
Namibia
1993 Juan Mayr
Colombia
1993 Garth Owen-Smith
Namibia
1993 Dai Qing
China
1993 John Sinclair
Australia
1993 JoAnn Tall
United States
1993 Sviatoslav Zabelin
Russia
1992 Jeton Anjain
Marshall Islands
1992 Wadja Egnankou
Ivory Coast
1992 Christine Jean
France
1992 Colleen McCrory
Canada
1992 Medha Patkar
India
1992 Carlos Alberto Ricardo
Brazil
1991 Eha Kern
Sweden
1991 Yoichi Kuroda
Japan
1991 Samuel LaBudde
United States
1991 Wangari Maathai
Kenya
1991 Evaristo Nugkuag
Peru
1991 Roland Tiensuu
Sweden
1991 Cath Wallace
New Zealand
1990 Robert Brown
Australia
1990 Lois Gibbs
United States
1990 Janet Gibson
Belize
1990 Harrison Ngau Laing
Malaysia
1990 János Vargha
Hungary
1990 Michael Werikhe
Kenya