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Honoring grassroots environmental Heroes 1989–2014
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5 The Goldman Environmental Prize
6 History and Selection Process
8 The Goldman Environmental Prize Recipients 1990–2014
8 World Map
9 Alphabetical List by Country
10 Recipients by Continent and Year 1990–2014
24 Alphabetical List of Recipients
26 2014 Nominating Organizations
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Prize Jury
JOHN D. GOLDMAN PresidentGoldman Environmental Foundation
SuSiE R. GELMAN Vice PresidentGoldman Environmental Foundation
DOuGLAS E. GOLDMAN Vice PresidentGoldman Environmental Foundation
YOLANDA KAKAbADSEFounder, FundaciónFuturo Latinoamericano, Ecuador
GEOffREY LEAN Environmental Journalist, England
ALvARO uMAñA Former Environmental Minister, Costa Rica
ERNA WiTOELAR Founder, WALHIThe Indonesian Forum for the Environment
Grassroots environmental heroes too often go unrecognized. Yet their efforts to protect the world’s natural resources are increasingly critical to the well-being of the planet we all share. Thus, in 1989 San Francisco civic leaders and philanthropists Richard N. Goldman (1920–2010) and his wife, Rhoda H. Goldman (1924–1996) created the Goldman Environmental Prize.
The Goldman Prize continues today with its original mission to annually honor grassroots environmental heroes from the six inhabited continental regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, islands and island Nations, North America, and South and Central America. The Prize recognizes individuals for sustained and significant efforts to protect and enhance the natural environment, often at great personal risk. Each winner receives an award of $175,000, the largest award in the world for grassroots environmental activists. The Goldman Prize views “grassroots” leaders as those involved in local efforts, where positive change is created through community or citizen participation in the issues that affect them. Through recognizing these individual leaders, the Prize seeks to inspire other ordinary people to take extraordinary actions to protect the natural world.
The Prize Winners
The work of Goldman Prize winners often focuses on protecting endangered ecosystems and species, combating destructive development projects, promoting sustainability, influencing environmental policies and striving for environmental justice. Prize winners represent a broad spectrum of cultures and lifestyles, but they share a steadfast commitment to protecting the environment, often at great personal risk. The Goldman Prize amplifies the voices of these grassroots leaders and provides them with: international recognition that enhances their credibility Worldwide visibility for the issues they champion financial support of $175,000 to pursue their vision
Reflecting worldwide concern for environmental issues, more than half of the world’s heads of state have endorsed the Prize. Every year the winners receive global press coverage that helps educate the public about critical environmental challenges. As of 2014, the Goldman Environmental Prize has been awarded to 163 people, representing 82 countries.
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History
Richard Goldman’s inspiration for launching an environmental prize emerged one morning over breakfast as he was reading about the Nobel Prize winners. He wondered whether there was anything comparable that recognized ordinary people for their contributions to the environment. Research revealed that there was not. Always eager to tackle uncharted territory, Richard and his wife Rhoda began laying the groundwork in 1989 for the Goldman Environmental Prize, which would become the world’s largest prize for grassroots environmental activists.
Reflecting the Goldmans’ longtime commitment to both philanthropic endeavors and environmental concerns, they envisioned their Prize as a way to demonstrate the international nature of environmental problems, draw public attention to critical global issues, reward ordinary individuals for outstanding achievement and inspire others to emulate the examples set by the recipients.
Selection Process
Each spring the Goldman Environmental foundation receives nominations from a pre-selected group of environmental experts from around the world. Nominators represent a diverse group of organizations working on environmental issues worldwide, and a confidential panel of over 150 environmental experts from more than 70 nations, including citizen activists, distinguished environmentalists working in the field and prominent policymakers. The global reach and on-the-ground knowledge of Goldman Prize nominators enable the Prize to identify many of the world’s most inspiring grassroots environmental leaders.
Goldman foundation staff research nominations thoroughly. The identities of nominees remain confidential through-out the nomination and research processes. final selections are made by the Goldman Environmental Prize Jury, which combines the commitment of the foundation’s board of Directors with the expertise of distinguished environmentalists.
While the Goldman Environmental Prize recognizes the importance of communities and organizations in many activists’ work, nomina tions of one individual are given preference. The Goldman Environmental Prize does not accept unsolicited nominations.
Ceremony
The Goldman Environmental Prize winners are honored every April at the Prize ceremony in San francisco and in Washington, D.C. The ceremonies celebrate and present to the world the outstanding accomplishments of these grassroots environmental leaders. The San francisco ceremony is held at the War Memorial Opera House, the historic and beautiful home to the San francisco Opera and ballet, built in 1932. More than 3,000 people attend the event. Prize winners then fly to Washington, D.C. for an additional ceremony. At the ceremonies, short documentary films provide an introduction to the Prize winners and their accomplishments, and the winners are presented with an Ouroboros statuette. Attendance to the San francisco and Washington, D.C. ceremonies is by invitation only.
During their Prize tour, winners meet with influential organizations, policy-makers and the press. Prize winners have been received by members of the u.S. Congress, the President of the united States, the World bank and ambassadors from various countries.
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arGenTinaSofía Gatica 151
auSTraliabob brown 4Eileen Kampakuta
brown 91Jacqui Katona 61Yvonne Margarula 62John Sinclair 24 Eileen Wani
Wingfield 92
BanGladeSHSyeda Rizwana
Hasan 128
BelGiumignace Schops 122
BelizeJanet Gibson 6
BoliviaOscar Olivera 79
BrazilTarcísio feitosa da
Silva 113Carlos Alberto
Ricardo 19Marina Silva 44
BulGariaAlbena Simeonova 41
BurmaKa Hsaw Wa 59
CamBodiaTuy Sereivathana 135
CameroonSamuel Nguiffo 58
CanadaMatthew Coon
Come 31Norma Kassi 86bernard Martin 63Colleen McCrory 18Sophia
Rabliauskas 118
CHileJuan Pablo
Orrego 51
CHinaMa Jun 147Dai Qing 22Yu Xiaogang 109
ColomBiaLibia Grueso 101berito Kuwaru’wa 57 Juan Mayr 26 Nohra Padilla 157
CoSTa riCaRandall Arauz 139
CuBaHumberto Ríos
Labrada 137
demoCraTiC rePuBliCof THe ConGoCorneille E.N.
Ewango 102
dominiCa Atherton Martin 55
eaST TimorDemetrio do Amaral
de Carvalho 99
eCuadorLuis Macas 32Pablo fajardo
Mendoza 125Luis Yanza 126
eGyPTLaila iskandar
Kamel 27
el SalvadorRicardo Navarro 38 francisco Pineda 145
enGlandEmma Must 35
franCeChristine Jean 16
GaBonMarc Ona
Essangui 127
GeorGiaManana Kochladze 98
GermanyHeffa Schücking 29ursula Sladek 142
GHanaRudolf N. Amenga-
Etego 95
GreeCeGiorgos
Catsadorakis 75Myrsini Malakou 74
GuyanaJean La Rose 87
HaiTiChavannes Jean-
baptiste 105
HonduraSfather José Andrés
Tamayo Cortez 107Jorge varela 64
HunGaryJános vargha 3
iCelandOrri vigfússon 117
indiaRamesh Agrawal 159Rashida bee 96M.C. Mehta 40Medha Patkar 15Champa Devi
Shukla 97
indoneSiaYosepha Alomang 73Prigi Arisandi 143Aleta baun 155Loir botor Dingit 46Yuyun ismawati 130Rudi Putra 161
iraQAzzam Alwash 153
irelandWillie Corduff 116
iTalyRossano Ercolini 154Anna Giordano 54
ivory CoaSTWadja Mathieu
Egnankou 14
JaPanYoichi Kuroda 8 Hirofumi
Yamashita 53
KazaKHSTanKaisha
Atakhanova 103
Kenyaikal Angelei 146Wangari Maathai 7 Michael Werikhe 1
liBeriaAlexander Peal 65
Silas Kpanan’Ayoung Siakor 108
madaGaSCarNat Quansah 68
malaySia Harrison Ngau
Laing 2
marSHall iSlandS Jeton Anjain 17
mexiCo isidro baldenegro
López 106Edwin bustillos 43Rodolfo Montiel
flores 69Jésus León
Santos 124
monGoliaTs. Munkhbayar 115
mozamBiQuefeliciano dos
Santos 120
namiBia Margaret
Jacobsohn 21 Garth Owen-Smith 20
neW Caledoniabruno van
Peteghem 76
neW zealandbill ballantine 42 Cath Wallace 11
niGeriaOdigha Odigha 88Ken Saro-Wiwa 33
PalauNoah idechong 36
PaPua neW GuineaAnne Kajir 111
ParaGuay Elías Díaz Peña 71Oscar Rivas 70
PeruRuth buendía
Mestoquiari 163Julio Cusurichi
Palacios 119Maria Elena foronda
farro 94Evaristo Nugkuag 13
PHiliPPineSfather Edwin Gariguez
149von Hernandez 89
PolandMałgorzata Górska
136Jadwiga Lopata 82
PuerTo riCoAlexis Massol-
González 83 Rosa Hilda
Ramos 123
romaniaStephanie Danielle
Roth 104
rWandaEugène
Rutagarama 72
ruSSia Evgenia Chirikova 148Suren Gazaryan 160Dmitry Lisitsyn 141 vera Mischenko 67Alexander Nikitin 47 Marina
Rikhvanova 121Olga Speranskaya 129Sviatoslav Zabelin 23
ST. vinCenT and
THe GrenadineSAndrew Simmons 30
SlovaKiaMichal Kravcik 60
Somaliafatima Jibrell 80
SouTH afriCaJonathan Deal 152Desmond D’Sa 158bobby Peek 52
SouTH KoreaYul Choi 34
SPainPedro Arrojo-
Agudo 90
SurinameWanze Eduards 132 Hugo Jabini 133
SWazilandThuli brilliance
Makama 134
SWedenEha Kern 9 Roland Tiensuu 10
THailandPisit Charnsnoh 81Tuenjai Deetes 28
uGandaNdyakira Amooti 39
uKraineOlya Melen 110
uniTed STaTeS Jane Akre 77Julia bonds 93Caroline Cannon 150 Aurora Castillo 37 Margie Eugene-
Richard 100 Lois Gibbs 5 Maria Gunnoe 131 Lynn Henning 138Sarah James 84Kory Johnson 56 Hilton Kelley 144Samuel Labudde 12Helen Slottje 162Jonathon Solomon 85Terri Swearingen 50JoAnn Tall 25Kimberly
Wasserman 156Craig E. Williams 112Steve Wilson 78
uzBeKiSTanOral Ataniyazova 66
WeSTern SamoaPaul Cox 48 fuiono Senio 49
zamBiaNick Carter 45 Hammerskjoeld
Simwinga 114
zimBaBWeRaoul du Toit 140
7 Wangari maathai | KENYA
Launched the Green belt Movement, a grassroots tree-planting project composed mainly of women working to curtail deforestation and desertification in Kenya. Won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. (d. 2011)
8 yoichi Kuroda | JAPAN
Coordinated Japan Tropical Action Network’s campaign to publicly expose and reform Japan’s role in tropical deforestation.
9 eha Kern 10 roland Tiensuu | SWEDEN
Kern, a teacher in rural Sweden, and her 9-year-old student, Tiensuu, started a children’s movement to raise millions of dollars to purchase and preserve rainforests.
11 Cath Wallace | NEW ZEALAND
A tireless protector of Antarctica’s fragile ecosystem, she advocated the ratification of the Antarctic Environmental Protocol.
12 Samuel laBudde | uNiTED STATES
His films documenting the slaughter of dolphins by tuna fishing boats and the destruction of marine life by driftnet fleets led to “dolphin-safe” tuna and a u.N. ban on driftnets.
13 evaristo nugkuag | PERu
Aguaruna tribe member and founder of the Coordinating body of indigenous Peoples Organization of the Amazon basin, he demonstrated that indigenous peoples are central to conserving the region.
1 michael Werikhe | KENYA
Kenya’s “Rhino Man” walked thousands of miles in East Africa, Europe and North America to raise public awareness and money for the endangered black rhinoceros. (d. 1999)
2 Harrison ngau laing | MALAYSiA
A Kayan tribe member and organizer in the indigenous people’s fight to save the Sarawak rainforests, he used his prize money to finance an election campaign that won him a seat in Malaysia’s parliament.
3 János vargha | HuNGARY
A biologist, he led a campaign to save the Danube River from the ecologically-devastating Gabcikovo-Nagymaros dam.
4 Bob Brown | AuSTRALiA
Gave up his medical practice to launch a successful nationwide grassroots campaign against the damming of Tasmania’s franklin River, Australia’s last free-flowing river.
5 lois Gibbs | uNiTED STATES
Led the struggle to have 800 families from her Niagara falls community evacuated and relocated after discovering that tons of chemical wastes were buried in nearby Love Canal.
6 Janet Gibson | bELiZE
Helped establish the Hol Chan Marine Reserve, Central America’s first marine reserve, to protect the barrier reef off belize, one of the world’s largest coral reefs.
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14 Wadja mathieu egnankou | ivORY COAST
Has been a lone spokesman for West Africa’s imperiled coastal mangrove forests, an ecosystem vital to the livelihood and well-being of the country’s entire coast.
15 medha Patkar | iNDiA
Mobilized massive marches and peaceful protests against the construction of india’s Sardar Sarovar Dam, which displaced thousands of tribal peoples and submerged vast stretches of forests and farmland.
16 Christine Jean | fRANCE
Coordinated a successful countrywide campaign to prevent the damming of the Loire, known as the last wild river in Europe.
17 Jeton anjain | MARSHALL iSLANDS
Organized the evacuation of his Marshall islands homeland, Rongelap, contaminated by the united States’ 1954 hydrogen bomb tests. He died from cancer most likely caused by the testing. (d. 1993)
18 Colleen mcCrory | CANADA
Led an impassioned fight to protect british Columbia’s temperate rainforest and its equally threatened northern boreal forests. (d. 2007)
19 Carlos alberto ricardo | bRAZ iL
Has dedicated his life to championing the rights of Amazonia’s indigenous peoples, whose disappearance paves the way for environmental destruction.
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20 Garth owen-Smith 21 margaret Jacobsohn | NAMibiA
Their natural resource management program, a model throughout Africa, links Namibian wildlife conservation to sustainable rural development.
22 dai Qing | CHiNA
A journalist, she took great personal risk to publish a collection of essays by Chinese intellectuals critical of the damming of the Yangtze, a project that would create the world’s largest hydroelectric dam.
23 Sviatoslav zabelin | RuSSiA
Cofounded the Socio-Ecological union, a coalition of more than 200 organizations throughout the former Soviet union working to address Russia’s immense environmental problems.
24 John Sinclair | AuSTRALiA
Successfully stopped sand mining and logging of the unique rainforest on fraser island, the world’s largest sand island, off the coast of Queensland.
25 Joann Tall | uNiTED STATES
A Lakota, she helped stop proposed nuclear weapons testing in North Dakota’s black Hills and also worked to prevent hazardous landfills from being located in the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations.
26 Juan mayr | COLOMbiA
united disparate groups to work for the protection of Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the world’s highest coastal mountain range.
33 Ken Saro-Wiwa | NiGERiA
Led a peaceful movement for the environmental and human rights of Nigeria’s Ogoni people whose oil-rich land has been exploited by multinational oil companies. The Nigerian government executed Saro-Wiwa in 1995. (d. 1995)
34 yul Choi | SOuTH KOREA
Leader of the Korean federation for Environmental Movement, he popularized environmental issues and mobilized a strong anti-nuclear movement amidst powerful development pressure and at considerable personal risk.
35 emma must | ENGLAND
Her campaign against a nationwide road-building program resulted in the cancellation of 60 road projects and the development of new transportation policies.
36 noah idechong | PALAu
Protected Palau’s rich coral reefs and fisheries from development by creating an innovative model that integrates modern and traditional native practices.
37 aurora Castillo | uNiTED STATES
An octogenarian fourth-generation Mexican-American, she was the force behind Mothers of East Los Angeles, which successfully defended East L.A. from serious environmental and public health threats. (d. 1998)
38 ricardo navarro | EL SALvADOR
founder of the Salvadoran Center for Appropriate Technology, he worked to restore El Salvador’s environment, decimated by 12 years of civil war.
27 laila iskandar Kamel | EGYPT
Her work with the zabbaleen garbage collectors of Cairo demonstrated that large-scale recycling programs offer employment, generate income and improve living conditions.
28 Tuenjai deetes | THAiLAND
Her sustainable agriculture and reforestation projects with northern Thailand hill tribes have become national models in resource conservation.
29 Heffa Schücking | GERMANY
Traced Germany’s role in destroying tropical forests worldwide in her landmark “Rain forest Memorandum,” precipitating a significant reduction in Germany’s consumption of tropical timber.
30 andrew Simmons | ST. viNCENT AND
THE GRENADiNES
Created JEMS, a volunteer community development organization that uses literacy and skills programs to motivate communities to protect the islands’ natural resources.
31 matthew Coon Come | CANADA
Grand Chief of the Grand Council of the Cree indians, he led the Crees’ fight against the massive James bay hydroelectric development project in Quebec.
32 luis macas | ECuADOR
A Quichua from the Andes and president of the Confederation of indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador, he led a peaceful struggle for indigenous rights, including negotiating a 3-million-acre land transfer back to indigenous control.
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39 ndyakira amooti | uGANDA
The only journalist in uganda reporting on environmental issues, he exposed abuses at great risk, including illegal mining and wildlife smuggling in East Africa, which led to the creation of several national parks. (d. 1999)
40 m.C. mehta | iNDiA
Single-handedly won numerous landmark judgments from india’s Supreme Court since 1984, including introducing lead-free gasoline to india and reducing the industrial pollution fouling the Ganges and eroding the Taj Mahal.
41 albena Simeonova | buLGARiA
Mobilized against environmental threats, such as the construction of ill-designed nuclear power plants, and organized a decentralized system of “eco-inspectorates” to empower citizens to address community concerns.
42 Bill Ballantine | NEW ZEALAND
Established unprecedented “no-take” marine reserves in New Zealand and promoted the concept internationally to protect vital resources that are quietly but quickly being depleted around the world.
43 edwin Bustillos | MEXiCO
blocked logging in the Sierra Madre despite violent attempts on his life. undeterred by local drug lords, he founded the Advisory Council of the Sierra Madre to preserve the ecosystems that are home to the Tarahumara and Tepehuan communities. (d. 2003)
44 marina Silva | bRAZiL
A central figure in deforestation protests with the late Chico Mendes, she helped establish a 2-million-hectare reserve managed by traditional communities.
45 nick Carter | ZAMbiA
using sparse resources, brought together six African countries to create the world’s first multinational enforcement body to fight rampant illegal wildlife trafficking. (d. 2000)
46 loir Botor dingit | iNDONESiA
Paramount Chief of the bentian Tribal Council in East Kalimantan, he led rattan farmers in sustainable forest management and won government support for forest dwellers’ rights. (d. 2005)
47 alexander nikitin | RuSSiA
A former naval officer, he was unjustly imprisoned for nearly five years for treason after revealing the potential for a nuclear catastrophe due to Russia’s aging nuclear submarines based near the Norwegian border. He was acquitted in 2000.
48 Paul Cox 49 fuiono Senio | WESTERN SAMOA
Worked to preserve a 30,000-acre rainforest by developing economic alternatives for villagers who saw the forest as their only source for income. (Senio d. 1997)
50 Terri Swearingen | uNiTED STATES
fought the construction of the nation’s largest toxic waste incinerator in East Liverpool, Ohio, sited 1,100 feet from an elementary school. Her efforts halted the construction of other incinerators around the country.
51 Juan Pablo orrego | CHiLE
Led the campaign to protect the bio bío, one of South America’s last major free-flowing rivers and home to the indigenous Pehuenche people, from the destruction of massive multi-dam developments.
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58 Samuel nguiffo | CAMEROON
Lawyer and founder of the Center for Environment and Development, which helps forest-dwelling peoples exercise their legal right to manage traditional lands.
59 Ka Hsaw Wa | buRMA
fled Rangoon after being tortured for opposing a brutal military government and documented thousands of criminal and human rights abuses by the government related to construction of the Yadana petroleum pipeline.
60 michal Kravcik | SLOvAKiA
Galvanized support to halt a dam planned during the Communist era by proposing effective democratic alternatives, including smaller dams, decentralized water management, and restored farmlands.
61 Jacqui Katona 62 yvonne margarula | AuSTRALiA
Aboriginal women who stopped a damaging uranium mine at Jabiluka, land traditionally owned by the Mirrar people and at the heart of Australia’s largest national park.
63 Bernard martin | CANADA
Advocated lower fishing quotas and marine protected areas to stem the decimation by factory trawlers in the once abundant Grand banks and to prevent a repeat of the 1992 collapse of fish stocks, which threw 30,000 people out of work.
64 Jorge varela | HONDuRAS
Cofounder of a wetlands protection organization, he advocated sustainable shrimping to protect ecosystems in the Gulf of fonseca, where commercial shrimping destroys mangrove forests and poisons estuaries.
52 Bobby Peek | SOuTH AfRiCA
Skillfully united his racially divided community and succeeded in closing illegal toxic dumps in south Durban, a highly industrialized, contaminated community.
53 Hirofumi yamashita | JAPAN
for 25 years fought a reclamation project in isahaya bay, one of the world’s richest wetlands, forcing the government to scale back the massive dike and reas-sess the reclamation’s environmental costs. (d. 2000)
54 anna Giordano | iTALY
Launched a campaign to save raptors being illegally shot for sport in her native Sicily. Despite violent threats and the firebombing of her car, Giordano’s efforts significantly reduced the number of birds killed.
55 atherton martin | DOMiNiCA
Successfully organized opposition to halt a copper mine that would have devastated 10 percent of the original tropical rainforests still covering Dominica, known as “Nature island” for its rich biodiversity.
56 Kory Johnson | uNiTED STATES
founded Children for a Safe Environment at the age of nine and led the successful opposition to a proposed industrial incinerator in Phoenix, Arizona.
57 Berito Kuwaru’wa | COLOMbiA
Waged a nonviolent international campaign calling on multinational oil companies not to drill in the isolated, traditional homelands of his u’wa people, who consider oil to be the “blood of Mother Earth.”
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65 alexander Peal | LibERiA
Helped create Sapo National Park, Liberia’s first national park, and founded the country’s first environmental NGO. Having fled Liberia’s civil war, he sustained its conservation movement from abroad for nearly 10 years.
66 oral ataniyazova | uZbEKiSTAN
An obstetrician, she fought the damage to public health caused by the shrinking of the Aral Sea, which has led to increased salinity and concentrated pollutants, huge dust storms and changes in the regional weather.
67 vera mischenko | RuSSiA
in response to post-communist development and resource exploitation, cofounded Ecojuris, Russia’s first public interest law organization, and brought the first successful environmental lawsuits against the government.
68 nat Quansah | MADAGASCAR
An ethnobotanist, he reintroduced the use of native plants as medicine to thousands of Malagasy people in an Ambodisakoana clinic he opened, educating the community about the need for forest conservation.
69 rodolfo montiel flores | MEXiCO
Along with colleague Teodoro Cabrera, he was arrested and tortured for organizing peaceful protests of the logging that was devastating farmlands. both men were jailed for more than two years on trumped-up charges.
70 oscar rivas 71 elías díaz Peña | PARAGuAY
Cofounded Sobrevivencia to protect indigenous, marginalized communities. They work to prevent developments that threaten Paraguay’s ecosystems and inhabitants.
72 eugène rutagarama | RWANDA
A conservationist, Rutagarama risked his life to save 355 of the world’s last 650 mountain gorillas that were threatened by Rwanda’s war and massacres in the 1990s. He helped rebuild the national parks system and protect gorilla habitat.
73 yosepha alomang | iNDONESiA
Organized resistance to the world’s largest gold mining operation. Despite inhumane confinement and torture, she continued to promote traditional cultures, collective action and the well-being of indigenous peoples.
74 myrsini malakou 75 Giorgos Catsadorakis | GREECE
biologists who led the creation of the first trans-boundary protected area in the balkans, an area better known for conflict than cooperation, at the borders of Greece, Albania and Macedonia.
76 Bruno van Peteghem | NEW CALEDONiA
Worked against time and mining interests to protect New Caledonia’s reefs from destruction. On a fragile island where environmental regulations do not exist, he has confronted severe intimidation including the suspicious burning of his home.
77 Jane akre 78 Steve Wilson | uNiTED STATES
Tv journalists who researched the controversial rbGH, manufactured by Monsanto to stimulate milk production in cows. They were ultimately fired due to pressure from Monsanto.
79 oscar olivera | bOLiviA
Labor leader, advocated for affordable, clean water when his city’s water system was privatized. After a brutal crackdown, he emerged and continued protests and negotiations that forced the government to cancel the sale.
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88 odigha odigha | NiGERiA
His work has resulted in representation for Nigerian civil society in all forest management policies, including a statewide logging moratorium to protect the country’s remaining rainforests.
89 von Hernandez | PHiLiPPiNES
He led the Philippines to institute the world’s first nationwide ban on waste incinerators, which release cancer-causing dioxins, despite intense industry pressure and government corruption.
90 Pedro arrojo-agudo | SPAiN
A physicist and economics professor who spearheaded a new wave of activism and forged a sustainable water future based on conservation, recycling and informed agricultural choices.
91 eileen Kampakuta Brown 92 eileen Wani Wingfield | AuSTRALiA
Led the campaign to block construction of a nuclear waste dump 50 years after nuclear bomb tests caused birth defects, cancer and the poisoning of the environment and wildlife.
93 Julia Bonds | uNiTED STATES
A coal miner’s daughter determined to end mountaintop removal coal mining that contaminates drinking water, destroys rivers and forests, increases asthma rates, and forces families to abandon their homes. (d. 2011)
94 maria elena foronda farro | PERu
fostered partnerships between community groups, fishmeal producers and the government to institute environmentally sound and profitable business practices in lieu of dumping untreated industrial waste into streams and out of smokestacks.
80 fatima Jibrell | SOMALiA
She saved northeastern Somalia from the massive logging of old-growth acacia trees by persuading the regional government to create and enforce a ban on exports of charcoal made from the trees.
81 Pisit Charnsnoh | THAiLAND
His work has led to the restoration and protection of the mangroves and improved yields for local fishers. As a result, the Thai government has allowed local sustainable management of environmental resources.
82 Jadwiga lopata | POLAND
As Poland prepared to join the European union, she created an eco-tourism program that promoted the environmental, economic and health advantages of small family farms over large-scale factory agriculture.
83 alexis massol-González | PuERTO RiCO
A civil engineer, he established Puerto Rico’s first community-managed forest reserve, bosque del Pueblo (People’s forest), where shade-grown coffee and eco-tourism bring income to the community.
84 Sarah James 85 norma Kassi 86 Jonathon Solomon | uSA & CANADA
Gwich’in tribal leaders who defended the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling that targets the heart of the refuge’s wildlife habitat and coastal plain. (Solomon d. 2006)
87 Jean la rose | GuYANA
A key leader in the Amerindian struggle for full rights to traditional lands, she coordinated the first indigenous land-rights lawsuit in Guyana to protect streams, rainforests and endangered indigenous communities harmed by mining.
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95 rudolf amenga-etego | GHANA
Public interest lawyer who gained international recognition for suspending a major water privatization project that would have further impeded access to clean drinking water, a crisis linked to high rates of disease in low-income communities.
96 rashida Bee 97 Champa devi Shukla | iNDiA
On the 20th anniversary of the 1984 union Carbide gas leak that killed 20,000 and injured more than 150,000 in bhopal, they led a class action suit demanding cleanup and compensation for affected individuals.
98 manana Kochladze | GEORGiA
Her tenacity in the face of widespread government corruption and multinational industry interests won critical concessions to protect local villagers and the environment in the former Soviet republic from the baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil export pipeline.
99 demetrio do amaral de Carvalho | EAST TiMOR
founding father and environmental hero of the newly formed nation, he spearheaded the progressive inclusion of environmental justice tenets in East Timor’s constitution.
100 margie eugene-richard | uNiTED STATES
Secured agreement from Shell Chemical to reduce its toxic emissions by 30 percent, contribute $5 million to a community development fund, and finance relocation of her Old Diamond neighbors in Louisiana.
101 libia Grueso | COLOMbiA
Social worker and activist, secured more than 5.9 million acres in territorial rights for the country’s Afro-Colombian communities despite life-threatening circumstances.
102 Corneille e.n. ewango | DEMOCRATiC REPubLiC Of THE CONGO
Chief botanist of the Okapi faunal Reserve, Ewango stayed during the civil war to protect the reserve’s rare animals and plants and confronted military commanders to stop poaching.
103 Kaisha atakhanova | KAZAKHSTAN
A biologist, Atakhanova successfully challenged a government plan to import and store foreign radioactive waste.
104 Stephanie danielle roth | ROMANiA
An environmental-journalist-turned-activist, Roth was the driving force behind an international campaign to halt construction of Europe’s largest open cast gold mine.
105 Chavannes Jean-Baptiste | HAiTi
in a land devastated by deforestation, Jean-baptiste taught his fellow peasant farmers the principles of sustainable agriculture, drip irrigation and erosion prevention techniques such as tree planting.
106 isidro Baldenegro lópez | MEXiCO
baldenegro was jailed for 15 months for organizing protests against illegal logging in the Sierra Madre Mountains. He continues his struggle to defend the forests, lands and rights of indigenous people.
107 father José andrés Tamayo Cortez | HONDuRAS
Despite death threats and harassment, father Tamayo organized and led marches to pressure the government to stop the illegal logging that plagues communities in central Honduras.
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108 Silas Kpanan’ayoung Siakor | LibERiA
At great personal risk, Siakor released evidence that former President Charles Taylor used profits from illegal logging to pay for a brutal civil war, leading to a united Nations Security Council ban on the export of Liberian timber.
109 yu xiaogang | CHiNA
Yu created groundbreaking watershed management programs to aid communities displaced by dam con-struction. His work led to social impact assessments being included in large development projects.
110 olya melen | uKRAiNE
As a young lawyer, Melen successfully stopped construction on a deep-water shipping channel that would have destroyed fragile ecosystems in the heart of the Danube Delta, one of the most valuable wetlands in the world.
111 anne Kajir | PAPuA NEW GuiNEA
Kajir won a precedent-setting lawsuit on landholder rights against a global timber company that conducted large-scale, illegal logging in the largest remaining intact block of tropical forests in the region.
112 Craig e. Williams | uNiTED STATES
Williams formed a nationwide grassroots coalition against the incineration of chemical weapons stored in the united States, and convinced the Pentagon to halt incineration plans at four major chemical weapons stockpiles.
113 Tarcísio feitosa da Silva | bRAZiL
feitosa documented extensive illegal logging and helped a grassroots environmental coalition create the world’s largest group of protected tropical forest regions. Together with indigenous lands, a 240,000- square-kilometer corridor of forest was protected.
114 Hammerskjoeld Simwinga | ZAMbiA
in an area where illegal wildlife poaching decimated the wild elephant population and left villagers living in extreme poverty, Simwinga created an innovative program that successfully restored wildlife and transformed the poverty-stricken area.
115 Ts. munkhbayar | MONGOLiA
Munkhbayar successfully worked with government and grassroots organizations to shut down destructive mining operations along Mongolia’s scarce waterways.
116 Willie Corduff | iRELAND
in the small farming community of Rossport, Corduff and a group of committed activists and landowners successfully forced Shell Oil to halt construction on an illegally-approved pipeline through their land.
117 orri vigfússon | iCELAND
vigfússon brokered huge international fishing rights buyouts with governments and corporations in the North Atlantic, effectively stopping destructive commercial salmon fishing in the region.
118 Sophia rabliauskas | CANADA
Rabliauskas succeeded in securing interim protection for the boreal forests of Manitoba, effectively prevent-ing destructive logging and hydro-power development while the government and international agencies deliberate on the future of the region.
119 Julio Cusurichi Palacios | PERu
in the remote Peruvian Amazon, Cusurichi secured a national reserve to protect both sensitive rainforest ecosystems and the rights of indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation from the devastating effects of logging and mining.
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120 feliciano dos Santos | MOZAMbiQuE
using traditional music, grassroots outreach and innovative technology to bring sanitation to the most remote corners of Mozambique, Santos empowered villagers to participate in sustainable development and rise up from poverty.
127 marc ona essangui | GAbON
in Gabon, a country without a culture of civic engagement, Ona led efforts to publicly expose the unlawful agreements behind a huge mining project threatening the sensitive ecosystems of Gabon’s equatorial rainforests.
121 marina rikhvanova | RuSSiA
As Russia expanded its petroleum and nuclear interest, Rikhvanova worked to protect Siberia’s lake baikal, one of the world’s most important bodies of fresh water, from environmental devastation brought on by these polluting industries.
128 Syeda rizwana Hasan | bANGLADESH
To reduce the impact of bangladesh’s environmentally-devastating ship breaking industry, environmental attorney Hasan led a legal battle resulting in increased regulation and heightened public awareness about ship breaking.
122 ignace Schops | bELGiuM
Raising more than $90 million by bringing together private industry, regional governments, and local stakeholders, Schops led the effort to establish belgium’s first and only national park, protecting one of the largest open green spaces in the country.
129 olga Speranskaya | RuSSiA
Russian scientist Speranskaya transformed the NGO community in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia into a potent, participatory force working to identify and eliminate the Soviet legacy of toxic chemicals in the environment.
123 rosa Hilda ramos | PuERTO RiCO
in the shadow of polluting factories in Cataño, Ramos led the movement to permanently protect the Las Cucharillas Marsh, one of the last open spaces in the area and one of the largest wetlands ecosystems in the region.
130 yuyun ismawati | iNDONESiA
As waste management problems mount throughout indonesia, ismawati implements sustainable community-based solutions that provide employment opportunities to low-income people and empower them to improve the environment.
124 Jesús león Santos | MEXiCO
in Oaxaca, where unsustainable land-use practices have made it one of the world’s most highly-eroded areas, León led a land renewal program that employs ancient indigenous practices to transform depleted soil into arable land.
131 maria Gunnoe | uNiTED STATES
in the heart of Appalachia, where the coal industry wields enormous power over government and public opinion, lifelong resident Gunnoe fights against environmentally-devastating mountaintop removal mining and valley fill operations.
125 Pablo fajardo mendoza 126 luis yanza | ECuADOR
in the Ecuadorian Amazon, fajardo and Yanza led one of the largest environmental legal battles in history against oil giant Chevron, demanding justice for the massive petroleum pollution in the region.
132 Wanze eduards 133 Hugo Jabini | SuRiNAME
Eduards and Jabini successfully organized their communities against logging on their traditional lands, leading to a landmark ruling for indigenous and tribal peoples.
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137 Humberto ríos labrada | CubA
Scientist and biodiversity researcher, Ríos worked with farmers to increase crop diversity and develop low-input agricultural systems, encouraging Cuba’s shift away from agricultural chemical dependence.
134 Thuli Brilliance makama | SWAZiLAND
Swaziland’s only public interest environmental attorney, Makama won a landmark case to include environmental NGO representation in the Swaziland Environment Authority, reinforcing the right to public participation in environmental decision making.
135 Tuy Sereivathana | CAMbODiA
Tuy worked to mitigate human-elephant conflict in Cambodia by introducing innovative low-cost solutions, empowering local communities to cooperatively participate in endangered Asian elephant conservation.
136 małgorzata Górska | POLAND
Górska led the fight to protect Poland’s Rospuda valley, one of Europe’s last true wilderness areas, from a controversial highway project that would have destroyed the region’s sensitive ecosystems.
138 lynn Henning | uNiTED STATES
A family farmer in rural Michigan, Henning exposed the egregious polluting practices of CAfOs—concentrated animal feeding operations—gaining the attention of the federal EPA and prompting state regulators to issue hundreds of citations for water quality violations.
139 randall arauz | COSTA RiCA
Drawing international attention to the inhumane and environmentally-catastrophic shark finning industry, Arauz led the campaign to halt the practice in Costa Rica, making his country the new international model for shark protection.
143 Prigi arisandi | iNDONESiA
Arisandi, a biologist, initiated a local movement to stop industrial pollution from flowing into a river that provides water to three million people.
140 raoul du Toit | ZiMbAbWE
Du Toit coordinated conservation initiatives that have helped to develop and maintain the largest remaining black rhino population in Zimbabwe.
141 dmitry lisitsyn | RuSSiA
Lisitsyn fought to protect Sakhalin island’s critical endangered ecosystems while also demanding safety measures from one of the world’s largest petroleum development projects.
142 ursula Sladek | GERMANY
in response to Germany’s expanded reliance on nuclear energy, Sladek created her country’s first cooperatively-owned renewable power company.
144 Hilton Kelley | uNiTED STATES
Now leading the battle for environmental justice on the Texas Gulf Coast, Kelley fights for communities living in the shadow of polluting industries.
145 francisco Pineda | EL SALvADOR
Living under the constant threat of assassination, Pineda led a citizens’ movement that stopped a gold mine from destroying El Salvador’s dwindling water resources.
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149 father edwin Gariguez | PHiLiPPiNES
A Catholic priest, Gariguez led a grassroots movement against a large-scale nickel mine to protect Mindoro island’s biodiversity and its indigenous people.
146 ikal angelei | KENYA
Risking her life, Angelei fought the construction of the massive Gibe 3 Dam that would block access to water for indigenous communities around Lake Turkana.
147 ma Jun | CHiNA
Ma exposed over 90,000 air and water violations by local and multinational companies operating in China through an online database and pollution map, bringing unprecedented environmental transparency and empowering Chinese citizens to demand justice.
148 evgenia Chirikova | RuSSiA
Challenging rampant political corruption, Chirikova mobilized her fellow citizens to demand the rerouting of a highway that would bisect Russia’s protected Khimki forest.
150 Caroline Cannon | uNiTED STATES
Cannon gave her native community in Point Hope an unprecedented voice in a battle to keep the Arctic Ocean safe from offshore drilling and successfully halted numerous oil and gas leases in the region.
151 Sofía Gatica | ARGENTiNA
A mother whose infant died as a result of pesticide poisoning, Gatica organized local women to stop indiscriminate spraying of toxic agrochemicals in neighboring soy fields.
152 Jonathan deal | SOuTH AfRiCA
With no prior experience in grassroots organizing, Deal led a successful campaign against fracking in South Africa to protect the Karoo, a semi-desert region treasured for its agriculture, beauty and wildlife.
153 azzam alwash | iRAQ
Giving up a comfortable living and family life in California, Alwash returned to war-torn iraq to lead local communities in restoring the once-lush marshes that were turned to dust bowls during Saddam Hussein’s rule.
154 rossano ercolini | iTALY
An elementary school teacher, Ercolini began a public education campaign about the dangers of incinerators in his small Tuscan town that grew into a national Zero Waste movement.
155 aleta Baun | iNDONESiA
by organizing hundreds of local villagers to peacefully occupy marble mining sites in weaving protests, baun stopped the destruction of sacred forestland on Mutis Mountain on the island of Timor.
156 Kimberly Wasserman | uNiTED STATES
Wasserman led local residents in a successful campaign to shut down two of the country’s oldest and dirtiest coal plants — and is now transforming Chicago’s old industrial sites into parks and multi-use spaces.
157 nohra Padilla | COLOMbiA
unfazed by powerful political opponents and a pervasive culture of violence, Padilla organized Colombia’s marginalized waste pickers to make recycling a legitimate part of waste management.
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161 rudi Putra | iNDONESiA
A biologist by training, Rudi Putra is dismantling illegal palm oil plantations that are causing massive deforestation in northern Sumatra’s Leuser Ecosystem, protecting the habitat of the critically endangered Sumatran rhino.
158 desmond d’Sa | SOuTH AfRiCA
Desmond D’Sa rallied south Durban’s disenfranchised communities to successfully shut down a toxic waste dump that was exposing nearby residents to dangerous chemicals and robbing them of their constitutionally protected right to a safe and clean environment.
159 ramesh agrawal | iNDiA
With a small internet café as his headquarters, Ramesh Agrawal organized villagers to demand their right to information about industrial development projects and succeeded in shutting down one of the largest proposed coal mines in Chhattisgarh.
160 Suren Gazaryan | RuSSiA
An internationally recognized bat expert and zoologist, Suren Gazaryan led multiple campaigns exposing government corruption and illegal use of federally protected forestland along Russia’s black Sea coast.
162 Helen Holden Slottje | uNiTED STATES
using a clause in the state constitution that gives municipalities the right to make local land use decisions, Helen Slottje provided pro-bono legal assistance, helping towns across New York defend themselves from oil and gas companies by passing local bans on fracking.
163 ruth Buendía mestoquiari | PERu
Overcoming a history of traumatic violence, Ruth buendía united the Asháninka people in a powerful campaign against large-scale dams that would have once again uprooted indigenous communities still recovering from Peru’s civil war.
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Agrawal, Ramesh . . . . . . . . . . . . .india . . . . . . . . . . . . .2014
Akre, Jane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .united States . . . . . . .2001
Alomang, Yosepha . . . . . . . . . . . .indonesia . . . . . . . . . .2001
Alwash, Azzam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2013
Amenga-Etego, Rudolf . . . . . . . . .Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . 2004
Amooti, Ndyakira . . . . . . . . . . . . .uganda . . . . . . . . . . .1996
Angelei, ikal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . .2012
Anjain, Jeton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Marshall islands . . . . .1992
Arauz, Randall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Costa Rica . . . . . . . . .2010
Arisandi, Prigi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .indonesia . . . . . . . . . .2011
Arrojo-Agudo, Pedro . . . . . . . . . . .Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . 2003
Atakhanova, Kaisha . . . . . . . . . . .Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . .2005
Ataniyazova, Oral . . . . . . . . . . . . .uzbekistan . . . . . . . . 2000
baldenegro López, isidro . . . . . . . .Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . .2005
ballantine, bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .New Zealand . . . . . . . .1996
baun, Aleta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .indonesia . . . . . . . . . .2013
bee, Rashida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .india . . . . . . . . . . . . 2004
bonds, Julia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .united States . . . . . . 2003
brown, bob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Australia . . . . . . . . . . .1990
brown, Eileen Kampakuta . . . . . .Australia . . . . . . . . . . 2003
buendía Mestoquiari, Ruth . . . . . .Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2014
bustillos, Edwin . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . .1996
Cannon, Caroline . . . . . . . . . . . . .united States . . . . . . .2012
Carter, Nick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . .1997
Castillo, Aurora . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .united States . . . . . . .1995
Catsadorakis, Giorgos . . . . . . . . . .Greece . . . . . . . . . . . .2001
Charnsnoh, Pisit . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Thailand . . . . . . . . . . .2002
Chirikova, Evgenia . . . . . . . . . . . .Russia . . . . . . . . . . . .2012
Choi, Yul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .South Korea . . . . . . . .1995
Coon Come, Matthew . . . . . . . . . .Canada . . . . . . . . . . . .1994
Corduff, Willie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ireland . . . . . . . . . . . .2007
Cox, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Western Samoa . . . . . .1997
Cusurichi Palacios, Julio . . . . . . . .Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2007
De Carvalho, Demetrio do Amaral .East Timor . . . . . . . . 2004
Deal, Jonathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .South Africa . . . . . . . .2013
Deetes, Tuenjai . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Thailand . . . . . . . . . . .1994
Díaz Peña, Elías . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Paraguay . . . . . . . . . 2000
Dingit, Loir botor . . . . . . . . . . . . .indonesia . . . . . . . . . .1997
dos Santos, feliciano . . . . . . . . . .Mozambique . . . . . . . 2008
D’Sa, Desmond . . . . . . . . . . . . . .South Africa . . . . . . . .2014
du Toit, Raoul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . .2011
Eduards, Wanze . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Suriname . . . . . . . . . .2009
Egnankou, Wadja . . . . . . . . . . . . .ivory Coast . . . . . . . . .1992
Ercolini, Rossano . . . . . . . . . . . . .italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2013
Eugene-Richard, Margie . . . . . . . .united States . . . . . . 2004
Ewango, Corneille E.N. . . . . . . . . .Democratic Republic of the Congo . . . . . . . .2005
fajardo Mendoza, Pablo . . . . . . . .Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . 2008
feitosa da Silva, Tarcísio . . . . . . . .brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . 2006
foronda farro, Maria Elena . . . . . .Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2003
Gariguez, father Edwin . . . . . . . . .Philippines . . . . . . . . .2012
Gatica, Sofía . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Argentina . . . . . . . . . .2012
Gazaryan, Suren . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Russia . . . . . . . . . . . .2014
Gibbs, Lois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .united States . . . . . . .1990
Gibson, Janet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .belize . . . . . . . . . . . . .1990
Giordano, Anna . . . . . . . . . . . . . .italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1998
Górska, Małgorzata . . . . . . . . . . . .Poland . . . . . . . . . . . .2010
Grueso, Libia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Colombia . . . . . . . . . 2004
Gunnoe, Maria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .united States . . . . . . .2009
Hasan, Syeda Rizwana . . . . . . . . .bangladesh . . . . . . . . .2009
Henning, Lynn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .united States . . . . . . .2010
Hernandez, von . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Philippines . . . . . . . . 2003
idechong, Noah . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . .1995
ismawati, Yuyun . . . . . . . . . . . . . .indonesia . . . . . . . . . .2009
Jabini, Hugo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Suriname . . . . . . . . . .2009
Jacobsohn, Margaret . . . . . . . . . . .Namibia . . . . . . . . . . .1993
James, Sarah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .united States . . . . . . .2002
Jean, Christine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .france . . . . . . . . . . . .1992
Jean-baptiste, Chavannes . . . . . . .Haiti. . . . . . . . . . . . . .2005
Jibrell, fatima . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Somalia . . . . . . . . . . .2002
Johnson, Kory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .united States . . . . . . .1998
Kajir, Anne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Papua New Guinea . . 2006
Kamel, Laila iskandar . . . . . . . . . .Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . .1994
Kassi, Norma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Canada . . . . . . . . . . . .2002
Katona, Jacqui . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Australia . . . . . . . . . . .1999
Kelley, Hilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .united States . . . . . . .2011
Kern, Eha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sweden . . . . . . . . . . .1991
Kochladze, Manana . . . . . . . . . . .Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . 2004
Kravcik, Michal . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Slovakia . . . . . . . . . . .1999
Kuroda, Yoichi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . .1991
Kuwaru'wa, berito . . . . . . . . . . . .Colombia . . . . . . . . . .1998
La Rose, Jean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . .2002
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Labudde, Samuel . . . . . . . . . . . . .united States . . . . . . .1991
León Santos, Jésus . . . . . . . . . . . .Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . 2008
Lisitsyn, Dmitry . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Russia . . . . . . . . . . . .2011
Lopata, Jadwiga . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Poland . . . . . . . . . . . .2002
Ma, Jun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .China . . . . . . . . . . . . .2012
Maathai, Wangari . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . .1991
Macas, Luis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . .1994
Makama, Thuli brilliance . . . . . . . .Swaziland . . . . . . . . . .2010
Malakou, Myrsini . . . . . . . . . . . . .Greece . . . . . . . . . . . .2001
Margarula, Yvonne . . . . . . . . . . . .Australia . . . . . . . . . . .1999
Martin, Atherton . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dominica . . . . . . . . . .1998
Martin, bernard . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Canada . . . . . . . . . . . .1999
Massol-González, Alexis . . . . . . . .Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . .2002
Mayr, Juan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Colombia . . . . . . . . . .1993
McCrory, Colleen . . . . . . . . . . . . .Canada . . . . . . . . . . . .1992
Mehta, M.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .india . . . . . . . . . . . . .1996
Melen, Olya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ukraine . . . . . . . . . . 2006
Mischenko, vera . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Russia . . . . . . . . . . . 2000
Montiel flores, Rodolfo . . . . . . . .Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . 2000
Munkhbayar, Ts. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mongolia . . . . . . . . . .2007
Must, Emma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .England . . . . . . . . . . .1995
Navarro, Ricardo. . . . . . . . . . . . . .El Salvador . . . . . . . . .1995
Ngau Laing, Harrison . . . . . . . . . .Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . .1990
Nguiffo, Samuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Cameroon . . . . . . . . . .1999
Nikitin, Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . . .Russia . . . . . . . . . . . .1997
Nugkuag, Evaristo . . . . . . . . . . . . .Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1991
Odigha, Odigha . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . 2003
Olivera, Oscar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . .2001
Ona Essangui, Marc . . . . . . . . . . .Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . .2009
Orrego, Juan Pablo . . . . . . . . . . . .Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . .1997
Owen-Smith, Garth . . . . . . . . . . . .Namibia . . . . . . . . . . .1993
Padilla, Nohra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Colombia . . . . . . . . . .2013
Patkar, Medha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .india . . . . . . . . . . . . .1992
Peal, Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . 2000
Peek, bobby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .South Africa . . . . . . . .1998
Pineda, francisco . . . . . . . . . . . . .El Salvador . . . . . . . . .2011
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2014 nominating organizations
Amazon Watch
The Conservation fund
Conservation Strategy fund
Earth Day Network
Earth island institute
Earthworks
ELAW
Gaia foundation
international Accountability Project
international Development Exchange
international Rivers
The Nature Conservancy
Pacific Environment
Rainforest Action Network
Rainforest foundation uK
Sierra Club
Small Change fund
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Wildlife fund
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