Winners of ‘Green Nobel’ fight deforestation, coal power
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation As a teenage mother and activist, Liz Chicaje would travel by boat and foot across Peru’s Amazon rainforest with her young daughter campaigning to protect the ancestral lands of the Bora Indigenous people from illegal logging and mining. To preserve the forest that the Bora and other Indigenous people depend on […]
Amazon ancestral land not up for sale, says ‘Green Nobel’ winner
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation As a girl growing up in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, Nemonte Nenquimo would listen to stories passed down from her ancestors about how the Waorani Indigenous people preserved their forests and defended their lands from settlers and oil companies. Those tales of survival and resistance later inspired Nenquimo to become a leader […]
Palm oil development leaves Liberians poorer, says winner of ‘Green Nobel’
Dakar, SenegalThomson Reuters Foundation Palm oil plantations in Liberia are billed as bringing jobs and development but actually leave locals poorer, said a Liberian lawyer who won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize on Monday. The US-based Goldman Environmental Foundation gives the prize – often known as the Green Nobel – to six grassroots activists each […]