
The Goldman Environmental Prize
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The world's foremost award honoring grassroots environmental activists. 🌎🏆 #GoldmanPrize
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This week at #UNOC3, the The Goldman Environmental Prize and @soalliance gathered to celebrate ocean champions across generations and geographies. 🌊 The event brought together SOA’s 2025 Ocean Leaders Fellows and #GoldmanPrize winners from around the world. 📸 Ocean House, Joe Short Photography






In a photo-rich interview with Yale Environment 360, 2025 #GoldmanPrize winner Batmunkh Luvsandash answers questions about his childhood in Mongolia, his career as an engineer, and his collaborative #conservation work with The Nature Conservancy. 🍃 e360.yale.edu/features/batmu…

🎙️ Climate Curious TEDxLondon speaks w/ #GoldmanPrize winners Besjana Guri & Olsi Nika about their campaign to protect Europe's last wild river from development. 💧 #Albania #Vjosa International Rivers ECOALBANIA bit.ly/4ej3sR5

"We haven't won yet, and they haven't defeated us either," #GoldmanPrize winner Alok Shukla (India, 2024) shared in a conversation with community members about their continued work to protect #Chhattisgarh's Hasdeo Aranya forest from #coal mining. 🌳 groundreport.in/latest/goldman…

#GoldmanPrize winner Batmunkh Luvsandash shares with Living On Earth, "We Mongolian people are a nomadic people that treat their land as sacred ground... we value those things that are invaluable, and...preserve them for the future generations." 🍃 tinyurl.com/3pyuyd47



In a commentary in @Mongabay, Ecuadorian lawyer, activist, and 2008 #GoldmanPrize winner Pablo Fajardo (Pablo Fajardo M.) argues that "the #climate crisis cannot be solved without confronting the corporate power structures driving it." 🌏 news.mongabay.com/2025/06/at-cop…

This month, 2022 #GoldmanPrize winner Niwat Roykaew & 1,500 residents of Chiang Rai, Thailand, marched to ask the governments of China, Thailand & Myanmar to stop mining and industrial development on the #Kok, #Mekong & neighboring rivers. International Rivers thereporters.co/environment/05…

Waste pickers flooded the center of #Bogota, Colombia, with 15 tons of recyclable plastic bottles to protest decreased income. 🗑️🌎 2013 #GoldmanPrize winner Nohra Padilla (Nohra Padilla) shared, "without our work landfills would be saturated." Read more 👉 bit.ly/46hutSR



#GoldmanPrize winner Semia Gharbi believes that one country's #waste shouldn't be another country's problem. 🗑️ IPEN: toxics-free Watch a short film about her work to reverse the illegal shipment of waste into #Tunisia: bit.ly/4cKysJ9

🌊 Last month, the #GoldmanPrize convened past Prize recipients at #UNOC3 to share ideas on ocean conservation. 🎙️Hear more about the experience on the Blue Frontier Campaign podcast, where Goldman Prize Executive Director Michael Sutton shares his reflections. bluefront.org/podcast/the-un…



✨ New blog! ✨ Read a Q&A with Semia Gharbi, zero waste advocate, environmentalist, and 2025 #GoldmanPrize winner from Tunisia. IPEN: toxics-free #BreakFreeFromPlastic bit.ly/44dyvul

"Ecosystems are not objects, as they have been treated until now, they have their own life and human beings are part of them. Without them we cannot live." Teresa Vicente, 2024 #GoldmanPrize winner from Spain, speaks about the #RightsofNature. Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature - GARN bit.ly/44c3SW7