2016 Goldman Environmental Prize Award Winners Announced

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The 2016 Goldman Environmental Award winners have been announced and include:

Máxima Acuña (Peru) for standing up for her right to peacefully live off her own property, a plot of land sought by Newmont and Buenaventura Mining to develop the Conga gold and copper mine.

Zuzana Caputova (Slovakia) for her work to shut down a toxic waste dump that was poisoning the land, air and water in her community.

Luis Jorge Rivera Herrera (Puerto Rico) for his work to establish a nature reserve in Puerto Rico’s Northeast Ecological Corridor—an important nesting ground for the endangered leatherback sea turtle—and protect the island’s natural heritage from harmful development.

Edward Loure (Tanzania) for his work to procure land titles for indigenous communities, ensuring the environmental stewardship of more than 200,000 acres of land for future generations.

Leng Ouch (Cambodia) for his work to document illegal logging in Cambodia and expose the corruption robbing rural communities of their land, causing the government to cancel large land concessions.

Destiny Watford (United States) for her work to defeat plans to build the nation’s largest trash-burning incinerator less than a mile away from her high school.

Read about their stories and learn more about the Goldman Environmental Prize here