Carlos Alberto Ricardo
Beto Ricardo has been a pioneer in advancing the links between human rights and environmental protection for over 25 years.
Medha Patkar
Medha Patkar mobilized massive marches and peaceful protests against the construction of India’s Sardar Sarovar Dam, which displaced thousands of tribal peoples and submerged vast stretches of forests and farmland.
Christine Jean
Christine Jean coordinated a successful countrywide campaign to prevent the damming of the Loire, known as the last wild river in Europe.
Colleen McCrory
Colleen McCrory led an impassioned fight to protect the world’s largest remaining temperate rainforest in British Columbia and the northern boreal forests.
Wadja Egnankou
A scientist from the Ivory Coast, Wadja Egnankou was, for a long time, the lone voice in the struggle to protect the remains of this West African country’s once abundant coastal mangrove forests.
Jeton Anjain
Jeton Anjain organized the evacuation of his Marshall Islands homeland, Rongelap, contaminated by the United States’ 1954 hydrogen bomb tests. He died in 1993 from cancer, most likely caused by testing.