[Environment Report]:Goldman Environmental Prize


This is the VOA Special English Environment Report.

Seven activists are this year's winners of the GoldmanEnvironmental Foundation awards. The winners received theirone-hundred-twenty-five-thousand dollar prizes at a ceremony in SanFrancisco, California.

The Goldman Environmental Prize is the world's largest programthat honors local environmental activists. Each year, experts choosethe winners from six parts of the world.

This year, two people share the prize for Islands and IslandNations. Eileen Kampakuta Brown and Eileen Wani Wingfield areAborigines, the native people of Australia. They lead a campaign toblock the building of a nuclear waste center in the desert insouthern Australia where they live.

Julia Bonds of the United States is the winner of the GoldmanPrize for North America. She has worked to stop the mountaintopremoval method of coal mining in the Appalachian Mountains of WestVirginia. Mizz Bonds is the daughter of a coal miner.

For Africa, the Goldman Prize winner is forest protectionactivist Odigha Odigha of Nigeria. Mister Odigha helped establish atemporary ban on the cutting down of trees in Cross River State.

An activist from the Philippines won the Goldman Prize for Asia.Von Hernandez organized campaigns to end the burning of waste. Suchburning releases poisons into the air. The Philippines became thefirst country to ban the activity.

Maria Elena Foronda Farro is a community organizer in Peru. Shewon the Goldman Prize for Central and South America for her effortsto stop pollution by Peru's fishmeal industry. She formed alliancesamong community activists, fishmeal producers and the government tomake the industry operate more cleanly.

The Goldman Prize for Europe went to Pedro Arrojo-Agudo of Spain.Mister Arrojo leads efforts to change government policies on watermanagement in Spain. He seeks to end the system of blocking andre-directing the flow of Spanish rivers.

Richard and Rhoda Goldman created the Goldman Environmental Prizein nineteen-ninety. The purpose of the Goldman Foundation awards isto show the difference that each person can make to help theenvironment.

This VOA Special English Environment Report was written by CatyWeaver.

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