Prize Impact
Since 1990, the Goldman Environmental Prize has…
- Touched the lives of more than 103 million people
- Saved almost 54 million hectares of land
- Saved over 20 million hectares of rainforest
- Saved over 50 million hectares of wildlife habitat
- Preserved drinking water for more than 9.5 million people
- Saved more than 2.5 million animals
- Planted 6.5 million trees
- Saved more than 44.5 million trees
- Protected more than 93 million people from exposure to toxins, pollutants or nuclear waste
*This information is based on data gathered from the Prize winners over the last decade.
- AFRICA, Gabon
- Marc Ona Essangui Congo rainforest protection
- ASIA, Bangladesh
- Rizwana Hasan Ship breaking
- EUROPE, Russia
- Olga Speranskaya Toxics in former Soviet republics
- ISLANDS, Indonesia
- Yuyun Ismawati Sustainable waste management
- NORTH AMERICA, USA
- Maria Gunnoe Mountaintop removal coal mining
- SOUTH & CENTRAL AMERICA, Suriname
- Hugo Jabini & Wanze Eduards Tribal and indigenous peoples land rights

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