Goldman Environmental Prize

 

Broadcast: May 9, 2003
By Caty Weaver¹

This is the VOA Special English Environment Report.
Seven activists³ are this year's winners of the Goldman Environmental Foundation awards. The winners received their one-hundred-twenty-five-thousand dollar prizes at a ceremony1 in San Francisco, California.
The Goldman Environmental Prize is the world's largest program that honors local environmental activists. Each year, experts choose the winners from six parts of the world.
This year, two people share the prize for Islands and Island Nations. Eileen Kampakuta Brown and Eileen Wani Wingfield are Aborigines2, the native people of Australia. They lead a campaign to block the building of a nuclear waste center in the desert in southern Australia where they live.
Julia Bonds of the United States is the winner of the Goldman Prize for North America. She has worked to stop the mountaintop removal method of coal mining in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia. Mizz Bonds is the daughter of a coal miner.
For Africa, the Goldman Prize winner is forest protection activist² Odigha Odigha of Nigeria. Mister Odigha helped establish a temporary ban on the cutting down of trees in Cross River State.
An activist from the Philippines won the Goldman Prize for Asia. Von Hernandez organized campaigns to end the burning of waste. Such burning releases poisons into the air. The Philippines became the first country to ban the activity.
Maria Elena Foronda Farro is a community organizer in Peru3. She won the Goldman Prize for Central and South America for her efforts to stop pollution by Peru's fishmeal4 industry. She formed alliances5 among community activists, fishmeal producers and the government to make the industry operate more cleanly.
The Goldman Prize for Europe went to Pedro Arrojo-Agudo of Spain. Mister Arrojo leads efforts to change government policies on water management in Spain. He seeks to end the system of blocking and re-directing the flow of Spanish rivers.
Richard and Rhoda Goldman created the Goldman Environmental Prize in nineteen-ninety. The purpose of the Goldman Foundation awards is to show the difference that each person can make to help the environment.
This VOA Special English Environment Report was written by Caty Weaver.

1. ceremony [5serIm[nI] n. 典礼，仪式
2. aborigines [7Ab[5rIdVInI:z] n. 土著，原居民
3. Peru [p[5ru:] n. 秘鲁
4. fishmeal n. 鱼粉
5. alliance [[5laI[ns] n. 联盟，联合

1 weaver   

n.织布工；编织者

参考例句：

• She was a fast weaver and the cloth was very good.她织布织得很快，而且布的质量很好。
• The eager weaver did not notice my confusion.热心的纺织工人没有注意到我的狼狈相。

2 activist   

n.活动分子，积极分子

参考例句：

• He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
• He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。

3 activists   

n.（政治活动的）积极分子，活动家( activist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
• Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》