Recipients of the 2010 Goldman Environmental Prize includes Michigan resident Lynn Henning

By The Associated Press


Here is a list of recipients of the 2010 Goldman Environmental Prize announced Monday by the Goldman Environmental Foundation in San Francisco. Each winner gets $150,000.

AFRICA: Thuli Brilliance Makama, of Swaziland. An environmental attorney, she won a three-year legal battle that reinforced the public’s right to participate in environmental decision making in Swaziland.

ASIA: Tuy Sereivathana, of Cambodia. He worked to protect Asian elephants, which were being killed when they searched for food at farms, and taught farmers to ward the elephants off with fences, fireworks and horns.

EUROPE: Malgorzata Gorska, of Poland. She led a legal fight to protect Poland’s Rospuda Valley from a highway project that would have destroyed sensitive ecosystems in one of one of Europe’s last wildernesses.

ISLANDS AND ISLAND NATIONS: Humberto Rios Labrada, of Cuba. A scientist and biodiversity researcher, he promoted sustainable agriculture by working with farmers to increase crop diversity and reduce reliance on pesticides and fertilizer.

NORTH AMERICA: Lynn Henning, of Michigan: A farmer and environmentalist, she led efforts to monitor large industrial farms where animals are kept in close quarters, producing enormous amounts of manure and threatening air and water quality.

SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA: Randall Arauz, of Costa Rica. He led a campaign to halt the practice of killing sharks for their fins, drawing international attention to the issue and making the country a model for shark protection.

Source: Goldman Environmental Foundation.