Garth Owen-Smith, of Namibia, who won the Goldman Environmental Prize for Africa in 1993 with Dr. Margaret Jacobsohn for their pioneering work in community-based natural resource management, has died. He was 76. In the early 1980s, Owen-Smith and Jacobsohn, an anthropologist, began a lifelong effort to link wildlife conservation with the needs of the local…
By Jackie Krentzman In 1978, Lois Gibbs was a young mother with two young children living in Niagara Falls, New York, in a neighborhood called Love Canal. She began hearing reports of chemical waste being dumped nearby and discovered that her son’s elementary school was built on a toxic waste dump that was leaching chemicals.…
This October, the Goldman Environmental Prize partnered with the organization AIDA to convene 23 Prize winners from South America, Central America, the Caribbean, and Mexico in Bogotá, Colombia, to learn and deepen their connection to other environmental defenders. At the conference, Prize winners received training on security issues, shared opportunities for collaboration, and exchanged knowledge…