• Rashida Bee and Champa Devi Shukla (India, 2004) use their Prize funds to establish the Chingari Award to honor women activists in India that challenge corporate interests.

• As a result of public interest gathered around Julio Cusurichi Palacios (Peru, 2007) winning the Prize, a provision to protect illegally logged mahogany is added to Peru’s free trade agreement with the U.S.

• China cancels plans to dam Tiger Leaping Gorge, one of the world’s deepest river canyons, following Prize winner Yu Xiaogang’s (China, 2006) work to expose negative impacts of dam building on communities and ecosystems.