Amazon Indigenous Woman Wins Environment Prize
2023-04-25
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1Alessandra Korap, a Munduruku Indigenous woman from the Brazilian Amazon, has been awarded a 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize.
2The respected award honors six activists from six continents who work on grassroots efforts to help the environment.
3The prize was established in 1989.
4The Goldman Prize defines grassroots leaders as those involved in local efforts, where positive change is created through community or citizen involvement.
5Korap is a member of the Munduruku people of the Amazon rain forest.
6She saw roads, farms and cities coming closer to her village throughout the 1980s.
7The settlers, loggers and miners posed a threat to the 14,000 Munduruku people, who lived along the Tapajos River.
8She and other women worked to organize protests against the outsiders.
9They presented information to the Brazilian government about illegal agreements that gave the developers access to native land.
10The work led to the Brazilian government creating a protected area in the rain forest.
11Korap's work earned the Goldman Prize on Monday.
12She said the prize, which comes with a monetary award, will "draw attention" to the protected rainforest area, which is her group's "top priority, along with the expulsion of illegal miners."
13In Brazil, there continue to be problems defending native land from miners.
14Some, however, hope that will change with the work of the country's Ministry of Indigenous Peoples.
15But Korap is still concerned that Brazil's economy depends on exports such as beef and soybeans that require more and more land.
16She says the new president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks about protecting land but he also negotiates economic agreements with other nations.
17Other prize winners are:
18Tero Mustonen, a university professor and activist in Finland. Mustonen led a group to purchase a piece of land damaged by industrial activity.
19Delima Silalahi, a Batak woman from North Sumatra, Indonesia. She organized native groups to fight for their rights to protect forests.
20Chilekwa Mumba, an organizer from Zambia who helped people from an area hurt by copper mining.
21Zafer Kizilkaya of Turkey, a conservationist and photographer who worked to create the first community-managed protected area in the Mediterranean Sea.
22Diane Wilson, an American shrimp boat captain who won a legal case against a plastics company who discharged plastic waste into the Gulf of Mexico in Texas.
23I'm Dan Friedell.
1Alessandra Korap, a Munduruku Indigenous woman from the Brazilian Amazon, has been awarded a 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize. 2The respected award honors six activists from six continents who work on grassroots efforts to help the environment. The prize was established in 1989. The Goldman Prize defines grassroots leaders as those involved in local efforts, where positive change is created through community or citizen involvement. 3Korap is a member of the Munduruku people of the Amazon rain forest. She saw roads, farms and cities coming closer to her village throughout the 1980s. The settlers, loggers and miners posed a threat to the 14,000 Munduruku people, who lived along the Tapajos River. 4She and other women worked to organize protests against the outsiders. They presented information to the Brazilian government about illegal agreements that gave the developers access to native land. 5The work led to the Brazilian government creating a protected area in the rain forest. 6Korap's work earned the Goldman Prize on Monday. She said the prize, which comes with a monetary award, will "draw attention" to the protected rainforest area, which is her group's "top priority, along with the expulsion of illegal miners." 7In Brazil, there continue to be problems defending native land from miners. Some, however, hope that will change with the work of the country's Ministry of Indigenous Peoples. 8But Korap is still concerned that Brazil's economy depends on exports such as beef and soybeans that require more and more land. She says the new president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks about protecting land but he also negotiates economic agreements with other nations. 9Other prize winners are: 10Tero Mustonen, a university professor and activist in Finland. Mustonen led a group to purchase a piece of land damaged by industrial activity. 11Delima Silalahi, a Batak woman from North Sumatra, Indonesia. She organized native groups to fight for their rights to protect forests. 12Chilekwa Mumba, an organizer from Zambia who helped people from an area hurt by copper mining. 13Zafer Kizilkaya of Turkey, a conservationist and photographer who worked to create the first community-managed protected area in the Mediterranean Sea. 14Diane Wilson, an American shrimp boat captain who won a legal case against a plastics company who discharged plastic waste into the Gulf of Mexico in Texas. 15I'm Dan Friedell. 16Dan Friedell adapted this story for Learning English based on a report by the Associated Press. 17________________________________________________________________ 18Words in This Story 19grassroots -adj. something small or at a very local level 20positive -adj. for the benefit of many, something good 21logger -n. a person who earns money by cutting trees and selling the wood 22pose -v. to present or to make known 23access -n. a place of entry 24priority -n. something that is important 25expulsion -n. the act of sending someone or something away 26_________________________________________________________________ 27We want to hear from you. Have you heard about any of these conservation or environmental activism projects before today? 28Here is how our comment system works: 29Each time you return to comment on the Learning English site, you can use your account and see your comments and replies to them. Our comment policy is here.