WRamesh Agrawal is an Indian social worker, internet café owner and grassroots environmentalist from Chhattisgarh. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2014 for his efforts in organizing protests against certain industrialization plans in the region, and in particular informing citizens about environmental and social consequences of projected large-scale coal mining.
WClaude Alphonso Alvares is an Indian environmentalist based in Goa. Alvares is the editor of the Other India Press and Director of the Goa Foundation, an environmental monitoring action group that has filed successful public interest litigation cases.
WIkal Angelei is a Kenyan politician and environmentalist. She was born in Kitale. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2012, in particular for her voicing of environmental implications of the Gilgel Gibe III Dam, speaking on behalf of Kenyan indigenous communities. She is the founder of the organisation Friends of Lake Turkana which campaigns for environmental justice in the region around the Lake Turkana.
WPedro Arrojo-Agudo is a Spanish physicist, economist, environmentalist, and a professor at the University of Zaragoza. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2003, for his contributions to conservation of water. He was made the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation in October 2020.
WAleta Baun is an Indonesian environmental activist. She has been described as the Indonesian Avatar.
WMollie H. Beattie was an American conservationist, and director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. In 2009, she was designated a Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project.
WJim Bohlen was an American engineer who worked on the Atlas ICBM missile program and later emigrated to Canada after becoming disillusioned with the US government's nuclear policy during the Cold War. He became one of the founders of Greenpeace.
WThomas Fulton Bourdillon was a British-Indian botanist, who worked as a Conservator of Forests in the princely state of Travancore.
WNina Leopold Bradley was an American conservationist, researcher and writer.
WNick Carter was a Zambian environmentalist.
WTuenjai Deetes, formerly Tuenjai Kunjara na Ayudhya, (Thailand) received the Global 500 Roll of Honour in 1992, and was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1994. Deetes has worked with Thai hill tribes since the early-1970s. She co-founded the Hill Area Development Foundation in 1986. She is a former commissioner of the Human Rights Commission until she resigned that post in July 2019.
WMartha Delgado Peralta is an environmentalist and the Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights at the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Delgado Peralta was elected to local congress in 2003. From 2006-2012 she served as Minister of the Environment of Mexico City. During her time as Minister of the Environment she helped to develop environmental policies including Green Plan of Mexico City, the Climate Action Program and a bike sharing program called ECOBICI.
WLoir Botor Dingit was a rattan farmer and Paramount Chief from Indonesia. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1997 for his efforts on forest protection.
WSir Martin Doughty was the Chair of Natural England and a well-known figures in modern British conservation.
WOla Skaalvik Elvevold is a Norwegian environmentalist. He is a former chairman of Natur og Ungdom. Prior to his leadership he had been deputy chairman since 2008.
WBernard Frank was an American forester and wilderness activist. He is known for being one of the eight founding members of The Wilderness Society.
WPaul George, is a Canadian environmentalist living in Gibsons, British Columbia. He is married to Adriane Carr, former leader of the Green Party of British Columbia, for which he ran in 1991, receiving 0.82% of the popular vote in the riding of Surrey-Newton.
WIngeborg Gjærum is a Norwegian environmentalist.
WLouis Russell Glavis (1883–1971) was an American lawyer and an employee of the United States Department of the Interior. He was a prominent figure in the 1910 Pinchot–Ballinger controversy; a political dispute between President Taft's Secretary of Interior, Richard Ballinger and conservationist Gifford Pinchot over Governmental conservation policies.
WLars Haltbrekken is a Norwegian environmentalist and was elected to the Parliament of Norway in 2017 for the Socialist Left Party (Norway). He was chairman of Friends of the Earth Norway from 2005 to 2016 after having been deputy chairman from 2003 to 2005. Haltbrekken was also chairman of Natur og Ungdom in 1995 and 1996. In between the two leaderships he worked primarily trying to prevent natural gas power plants in Norway, and was chairman of Fellesaksjonen mot gasskraftverk. He grew up in Trondheim.
WJohn Hance is thought to be the first non-Native American resident of the Grand Canyon, US. He opened the first tourist trail in the canyon in the late nineteenth century. He started giving tours of the canyon after his attempts at mining asbestos failed, largely due to the expense of removing the asbestos from the canyon. "Captain" John Hance was said to be one of the Grand Canyon's most colorful characters, and it had been declared by one early visitor that "To see the canyon only and not to see Captain John Hance, is to miss half the show." Hance delighted in telling canyon stories to visitors, favoring the whopper of a tale over mere facts. With a straight face, Hance told travelers how he had dug the canyon himself, piling the excavated earth down near Flagstaff. Despite such questionable claims, Hance left a lasting legacy at the Grand Canyon, dying in 1919, the year the Grand Canyon became a National Park. Hance was the first person buried in what would become the Grand Canyon Pioneer Cemetery.
WEinar Bakke Håndlykken is a Norwegian environmentalist and director of Zero Emission Resource Organisation (ZERO). Håndlykken started with environmentalism as a youth in Grenland Natur og Ungdom, and became deputy chairman of the national organisation in 1997 and in 1999 and 2000 he was chairman. He worked for Bellona from 2001 to 2002, when he co-founded ZERO.
WPeter Phillip Hitchcock AM was a renowned Australian champion for nature conservation who played a key role establishing some of Australia's first rainforest protected areas, also overseeing nationally and internationally significant UNESCO World Heritage nominations plus World Heritage protected area management.
WEdward Hoare, formerly of Hoare's Bank, is an English philanthropist and environmentalist.
WBerito Kuwaru'wa is a member of the Colombian U'wa people. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1998 for his role as spokesperson in conflicts between the U'wa people and the petroleum industry.
WStéphane Lhomme is president of Tchernoblaye association, and was speaker of "Sortir du nucléaire" Network during 2002–2010.
WJadwiga Łopata, is an organic farmer living near Cracow, Poland. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2002, for her works on rural protection. She is co-founder and co-director of the International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside (ICPPC).
WSilje Ask Lundberg is a Norwegian environmentalist and chairman of Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature. She is a former leader of Nature and Youth. She grew up in Harstad in Northern Norway. Prior to her leadership she has been deputy chairman and been working for other environmental organisations, such as ZERO and Bellona Foundation.
WJ. Horace McFarland (1859–1948) from McAlisterville, Pennsylvania was a leading proponent of the "City Beautiful Movement" in the United States.
WRené Ngongo is a Congolese biologist, environmentalist and political activist. Ngongo graduated from the University of Kisangani with a bachelor's degree in Biology in 1987. In 1994, he created the NGO OCEAN in order to protect the DRC's natural resources.
WSamuel Nguiffo is a Cameroonian lawyer. He is manager of the Center for Environment and Development in Yaoundé. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1999, for his efforts on protection of the tropical rainforests of Central Africa.
WRainer Nõlvak is an Estonian entrepreneur and nature protector who is the Chairman of the Board of the Estonian Nature Fund.
WEvaristo Nugkuag is an activist for environmental and indigenous people causes. He is a member of the Aguaruna. He organized the Alliance of the Indian Peoples of the Peruvian Amazon (AIDESEP) and Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica "COICA" to serve indigenous people. In 1986, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "organising to protect the rights of the Indians of the Amazon basin."
WMarc Ona Essangui is founder of the environmental NGO Brainforest and president of Environment Gabon, a network of NGOs. Marc Ona Essangui led efforts to expose agreements behind a Chinese mining project in Gabon, a country in West Central Africa, that threatened equatorial rainforest ecosystems. According to Ona Essangui, the proposed Belinga development, a $3.5 billion project, was secretly negotiated. Local communities were not consulted and are unaware of the effect that the project would have on their environment. Ona won the 2009 Africa Goldman Environmental Prize for his work. The project is currently on hold due to a lack of financing. In March 2013, Ona Essangui was sentenced to a six-month suspended prison sentence and an approximately $10,000 USD fine for defamation of Liban Soleman, senior advisor to President Ali Bongo Ondimba.
WJuan Pablo Orrego is a Chilean ecologist, musician and environmentalist. He is the current president of the Ecosistemas (NGO). He is one of the most influential environmental voices in Chile, and Latin America as consequence of his important participation in campaigns against damming projects in Chile that threatened local communities and valuable eecosystems. In 1998, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award "for his personal courage, self-sacrifice and perseverance in working for sustainable development in Chile."
WOrri Vigfússon was an Icelandic entrepreneur and environmentalist. His stated objective was to "restore the abundance of wild salmon that formerly existed on both sides of the North Atlantic".
WAmla Ashok Ruia is an Indian social activist known for her work in water harvesting.
WFuiono Senio was a chief and environmentalist from Falealupo village on the island of Savai'i in Western Samoa.
WCharles Alexander Sheldon was an American conservationist and the "Father of Denali National Park". He had a special interest in the bighorn sheep and spent time hunting with the Seri Indians in Sonora, Mexico, who knew him as Maricaana Caamla. Another favorite haunt was the lakes and rivers which later became Kejimkujik National Park in Nova Scotia where Sheldon built a cabin at Beaverskin Lake.
WPrasiddhi Singh is a social entrepreneur and environmental activist, hailing from the Chengalpattu district of Tamil Nadu. She is well noted for having led the plantation programme of thousands of trees and fourteen forests all across India, with a specific focus in the derogated Tamil region, through the ‘Prasiddhi Forest Foundation’ she has established. In Puducherry, Prasiddhi had regularly been carrying out environmental activities.
WMichael Sladek is a German doctor and bearer of the Federal Cross of Merit.
WFreeman Tilden was one of the first people to set down the principles and theories of heritage interpretation in his 1957 book, Interpreting Our Heritage.
WMarlice Elretha Jansen van Vuuren born 14 May 1976 as Marlice Elrethra van der Merwe, is a Namibian conservationist. Together with her husband she runs the N/a’an ku sê Wildlife Sanctuary in central Namibia.
WHirofumi Yamashita was a Japanese ichthyologist and environmentalist.
WYuan Xikun is a Chinese visual artist and environmental activist. In 2011, Yuan proposed building a giant sculpture composed of sand collected from five of earth's continents and water from its Arctic and Antarctic regions to draw attention to ozone depletion and climate change.
WSviatoslav Zabelin is a Russian environmentalist. He is founder of the environmentalist network Socio-Ecological Union. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1993.