And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
The Green Sink
http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/1993/101-3/forum.html#green
Voices in the Wilderness
http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/1993/101-3/forum.html#voices
Voices in the Wilderness
Severe poverty, death threats, and imprisonment are just some of the
obstacles overcome by this year's winners of the Gold-man Environmental
Prize, the largest international award program for grassroots
environmentalists.
The Goldman Prize, awarded for "sustained and important efforts to preserve
or enhance the environment," includes a $60,000 award to allow the
recipients to pursue their visions of a renewed and protected environment
without financial constraints. The prize jury includes members of the
Goldman Environmental Foun-dation and individuals such as Secretary of
Interior Bruce Babbit and Joan Martin-Brown, director of the Washington,
DC, office of the United Nations Environment Programme. A network of 19
internationally known environmental organizations including the Sierra
Club, National Au-dubon Society, National Geographic Society, Environmental
Defense Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, and a confidential panel
of environmental ex-perts from more than 30 nations nominates the winners,
one from each of the six inhabited continents.
Asia: Dai Qing. The daughter of a revolutionary martyr, Qing, a former
missile technician and one-time intelligence agent, is now a journalist in
Beijing. Qing has openly and ardently opposed China's Three Gorges dam. The
project, scheduled for China's Yangtze River, would force the resettlement
of 1.2 million people, drown more than 100 sites of archaeological
importance, and submerge a stretch of canyons known as Three Gorges. Taking
great personal risk, Qing inspired dam opposition by compiling and
publishing Yangtze! Yangtze! a collection of essays by prominent Chinese
scholars critical of the dam. As a result, the project was shelved, at
least temporarily.
Europe: Sviatoslav Igorevich Zabelin. In response to concern about the
severe environmental problems facing the predemocratic Soviet Union,
Zabelin co-founded the Socio-Ecological Union (SEU), a coalition of 250
grassroots environmental organizations working in 11 of the 15 former
republics. Since 1991 Zabelin has been the chief assistant to Alexei
Yablokov, advisor to Boris Yeltsin on ecology and health, working to draft
environmental legislation to prevent exploitation of Russia's natural
resources as the nation opens its borders to corporations from around the
world.
North America: JoAnn Tall. Though suffering from debilitating rheumatoid
arthritis, Tall has spent years working from the Pine Ridge Reservation in
South Dakota to organize Native Ameri-can people to prevent environmental
abuses by corporations and governments on tribal lands. Tall co-founded the
Native Resource Coalition in 1989 to educate indigenous communities about
environmental threats. Some of her successful efforts include stopping
nuclear weapons testing in the Black Hills and preventing location of a
hazardous waste site on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations.
Africa: Garth Owen-Smith and Margaret Jacobsohn. Working from a remote area
of newly independent Namibia known as "World's End," Smith and Jacobsohn
have devised and implemented a unique two-way conservation system to combat
poaching of black rhino and desert elephant populations using unarmed local
herdsmen as guards. In contrast to the increasingly militarized response to
poaching in other areas, the peaceful "community-based conservation
development" plan is considered a model for African communities and has
resulted in an increase in wildlife populations.
South/Central America: Juan Mayr. Despite working under volatile and
dangerous conditions, including death threats, Mayr, a photographer turned
journalist, has been successful in forging an environmental alliance
between Colombian guerillas, peasants, and the Kogi, a pre-Colombian
community. The Fundacion Pro Sierra de Santa Marta works to protect the
world's highest coastal mountain (18,947 feet above sea level) and its
mi-crocosm of biological diversity in which arctic, tundra, rainforest, and
desert environments are imperiled.
Australia/Oceania: John Sinclair. For 20 years, Sinclair has helped define
public interest law in Australia by challenging the government on
environmental protection, particularly in regard to Fraser Island, the
world's largest sand island, located off the coast of Queensland. Sinclair
has succeeded in halting the environmentally damaging practices on the
island of sand mining and logging the island's rainforest and in the
process has raised public awareness of the island's importance. To date
most of the island has been declared a national park, and in 1992 it was
designated a World Heritage Site.
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