{"id":36452,"date":"2025-04-29T19:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T17:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=36452"},"modified":"2025-04-29T19:35:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T17:35:54","slug":"2025-goldman-environmental-prize-winners-serve-as-powerful-reminders-of-what-is-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=36452","title":{"rendered":"2025 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners ‘Serve as Powerful Reminders of What Is Possible’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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. . SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT . .<\/p>\n

An article by Jessica Corbett from Common Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n

Seven grassroots Earth defenders from around the world were announced on Monday as the 2025 Goldman Environmental Prize winners.<\/p>\n

“It’s been a tough year for both people and the planet,”\u00a0said\u00a0Jennifer Goldman Wallis, vice president of the Goldman Environmental Foundation, in a statement. “There’s so much that worries us, stresses us, outrages us, and keeps us divided. However, for me, these environmental leaders and teachers\u2014and the global environmental community that supports them\u2014are the antidote.”<\/p>\n

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\n2025 Goldman Prize winner Carlos Mallo Molina (right) and the Innoceana team work on scuba gear.\u00a0(Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize)<\/center><\/p>\n

“If we apply the same passion and logic that we use in the protection of our own families to our broader communities and ecosystems, then we will win,” she continued. “In these difficult times for environmental activists, these seven individuals serve as powerful reminders of what is possible through determination, resilience, and hope.”<\/p>\n

Since 1989, the foundation has awarded the annual\u00a0prize\u00a0to individuals from the world’s six inhabited continental regions “for sustained and significant efforts to protect and enhance the natural environment, often at great personal risk.”<\/p>\n

Africa: Semia Gharbi of Tunisia<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gharbi, a 57-year-old scientist and environmental educator,\u00a0led\u00a0a campaign against a corrupt waste trafficking scheme between Italy and Tunisia that led to the arrest of over 40 people from both countries and stronger European Union export rules.<\/p>\n

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Despite the vested interests of companies and governments, Can we make progress toward sustainable development?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Asia: Batmunkh Luvsandash of Mongolia<\/strong><\/p>\n

After being born to a nomadic herder family and working as an electrical engineer for construction and mining projects, 81-year-old Luvsandash\u00a0used\u00a0his expertise to fight to protect 66,000 acres of Dornogovi province from extractive activities.<\/p>\n

Europe: Besjana “Besi” Guri and Olsi Nika of Albania<\/strong><\/p>\n

The efforts of Guri, a 37-year-old who trained as a social worker, and Nika, a 39-year-old biologist and aquatic ecologist, to safeguard the Vjosa River from a hydropower dam development led to Albania and Europe’s first new national park protecting a wild river and its tributaries.<\/p>\n

Islands: Carlos Mallo Molina of the Canary Islands<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mallo Molina, a 36-year-old born in mainland Spain, left his job as a civil engineer specializing in port construction to\u00a0launch\u00a0the conservation group Innoceana, which fought to protect the Canary Islands’ marine ecosystem from the proposed Fonsal\u00eda Port.<\/p>\n

North America: Laurene Allen of the United States<\/strong><\/p>\n

Allen, a 62-year-old clinical social worker,\u00a0campaigned\u00a0for the closure of the Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics plant in Merrimack, New Hampshire, and continues to fight for cleanup efforts and stricter regulations regarding per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), commonly called “forever chemicals” because they persist in the environment and people’s bodies for long periods.<\/p>\n

South and Central America: Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari of Peru<\/strong><\/p>\n

Canaquiri Murayari is the 56-year-old\u00a0president\u00a0of the Kukama women’s organization Asociaci\u00f3n de Mujeres Huaynakana Kamatahuara Kanawon, which\u00a0won\u00a0a landmark Rights of Nature court ruling that granted legal personhood to the Mara\u00f1\u00f3n River.<\/p>\n

This year’s prize winners are set to be celebrated on Monday at an in-person and livestreamed\u00a0ceremony\u00a0in San Francisco, California, at 5:30 pm Pacific Daylight Time.<\/p>\n

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