Prize Honors Conservation Activists
April 23, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute
A nomadic herdsman in Mongolia and an Irish farmer are two winners of this year’s Goldman Environmental Prize, which honors grass-roots environmental activists around the world, reports The Wall Street Journal.
Six activists will receive the award, which has a $125,000 cash value, today in San Francisco. The prizes were established in 1990 by Richard Goldman, a San Francisco philanthropist, and his late wife, Rhoda Goldman.
Tsetsegee Munkhbayar, from Mongolia, led protests against gold-mining practices that dried out hundreds of miles of rivers in his arid country. Willie Corduff, from Ireland, received the prize for helping prevent a Shell-led consortium from building a natural-gas pipeline across his property and several other farms.
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