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"Green Nobel" to Zambian
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by publicreader | April 23, 2007 at 03:44 am
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The Goldman Environmental Prize was awarded this year to a Zambian whose lifework is protection of elephant populations from poachers. Through an innovative program combining health care, loans, and showing the population that they can profit by keeping elephants alive, Hammerskjoeld Simwinga helps to curb an epidemic of poaching.
The programs have been particularly empowering for women:
"We deliberately pushed our resources to the womenfolk in the community because we knew that working with the women was the strongest part of persuasion," he told Reuters news agency.
The Goldman Prize is the richest environmental award in the world and pays $125,000.
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at 03:57 on April 23rd, 2007
publicreader, thanks for bringing this to our attention! Congrats to Zambia.