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Goldman Environmental Prize - 2007 Recipients
This year’s winners [of the Goldman Environmental Prize] are: Sophia Rabliauskas, Canada…working on behalf of the Poplar River First Nation...Hammerskjoeld Simwinga, Zambia...Tsetsegee Munkhbayar, 40, Mongolia [who] successfully worked with government and grassroots organizations to shut down destructive mining operations...Julio Cusurichi, Peru [who]…secured a national reserve to protect both sensitive rain forest ecosystems and the rights of indigenous peoples…from the devastating effects of logging and mining...Willie Corduff, Ireland [who, with others]…successfully forced Shell Oil to halt construction on an illegally-approved pipeline through their land...Orri Vigfússon, Iceland…