April 20, 2010
Representing a diverse selection of regions and environmental issues, this year’s Goldman Prize recipients are leaders whose critical work is being recognized on the global stage. Learn about each recipient by clicking the links below.
Back row (from left to right): Lynn Henning (USA); Humberto Ríos Labrada (Cuba); Randall Arauz (Costa Rica) Front row: Thuli Makama (Swaziland); Tuy Sereivathana (Cambodia); Małgorzata Górska (Poland)
Michael Sutton, the executive director of the Goldman Environmental Foundation, visited 2014 Goldman Prize winner Rudi Putra in Indonesia this November. He shared observations from the trip in the post below. In 2023, Tero Mustonen received the Goldman Environmental Prize for protecting a distinctive natural habitat in Finland: peatlands. These peat marshes and bogs—sometimes known…
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This fall, Goldman Environmental Prize Program Manager Laura Fernandez had the opportunity to visit Niwat Roykaew and Tuenjai Deetes, Goldman Prize winners from Thailand from 2022 and 1994, respectively. The following is a guest post about her experience. After spending three days in Chiang Mai, Thailand, attending the Asia Environmental Human Rights Defenders Forum, I…
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For 73-year-old Cath Wallace, environmental activism is a lifelong pursuit. Her drive to protect the planet’s most fragile ecosystems is inherent to her identity. A former economics and public policy academic at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, Cath turned to activism in the mid 1970s. Since then, she has dedicated her life to reducing environmental harm and educating others about what we owe the Earth. Cath’s tireless advocacy for Antarctica, carried out in lockstep…
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