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Nigerian ecologist wins Goldman Prize for community-led bat conservation

Nigerian ecologist Iroro Tanshi wins the Goldman Environmental Prize for leading a community-driven effort to protect endangered short-tailed roundleaf bats in Nigeria’s Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary by preventing wildfires and reshaping local attitudes toward bats through education; the initiative has reduced wildfire risk from 2022 to May 2025, and Tanshi, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington, highlights the global relevance of her work as all six 2026 prize laureates are female.

via BBC|

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Texas Gulf Coast Defender Wins 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize

Grassroots activists who took on British mining giants and a serial plastics polluter are among the six 2023 Goldman prize winners. The winners include Diane Wilson, who won a landmark lawsuit against Formosa Plastics for dumping vast quantities of toxic plastic waste on the Texas Gulf coast, and Chilekwa Mumba, who helped change UK law after the supreme court in London ruled that the British mining company Vedanta Resources could be tried in the UK court system. Other winners include Indigenous women from Indonesia and Brazil who overcame powerful corporations and deep-seated misogyny in their communities to safeguard large swathes of two of the world’s largest rainforests.

via The Guardian|

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