Each year, people from across the environmental movement await the announcement of the Goldman Environmental Prize. This year, the organization honored six individuals who, with their communities, made great strides in campaigns around the world.
In particular, we honor the choice by Goldman to grant Alessandra Korap Munduruku, who organized community efforts to stop mining development by British mining company Anglo American in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest.
In May 2021, the company formally committed to withdraw 27 approved research applications to mine inside Indigenous territories, including the Sawré Muybu Indigenous Territory, which contains more than 400,000 acres of rainforest. The decision protects a critically threatened area of the Amazon—the world’s largest rainforest and a globally significant carbon sink—from further mining and deforestation.
-Goldman Environmental Prize website
Please take a moment and watch the video Goldman prize organizers produced for the occasion. It lifts up not only the incredible work of Alessandra, but her whole community who was able to overcome the odds and halt Anglo American mining in their tracks.
