[Goldman Environmental Prize winner] Mr Munkhbayar successfully pressured 35 of 37 mining operations working in the Onggi river basin to stop, permanently, ruining the river with their mining and exploration activities...His group took the companies to court, and three gold mines harming the river and Red Lake were involved...[other winners include]: Willie Corduff (Ireland, oil and mining) [who] has led a fight since 1996 to protect the picturesque area [of Rossport] from an approved Shell oil pipeline. Sophia Rabliauskas (Canada, forests)...Julio Cusurichi Palacios (Peru, forests)...