{"id":22976,"date":"2024-05-01T06:44:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T01:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22976"},"modified":"2025-04-06T23:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T17:51:09","slug":"goldman-environmental-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/goldman-environmental-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldman Environmental Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Goldman Environmental Prize:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Prize recognizes individuals for sustained and significant efforts to <strong>protect and enhance<\/strong> the <strong>natural environment,<\/strong> often at great personal risk.<\/li>\n<li>It is also known as the <strong>Green Nobel.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It recognizes <strong>grassroots environmental heroes<\/strong> from roughly the world\u2019s six inhabited continental regions: Africa, Asia, Europe,Islands &amp; Island Nations, North America and South &amp; Central America<\/li>\n<li>The Goldman Prize views \u201cgrassroots\u201d leaders as those <strong>involved in local efforts<\/strong>, where positive change is created through community or citizen participation.<\/li>\n<li>The first Goldman Environmental Prize ceremony took place on <strong>April 16, 1990<\/strong>. It was timed to coincide with <strong>Earth Day.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key facts about Hasdeo Aranya region<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a sprawling forest in the <strong>northern part of Chhattisgarh<\/strong> which is known for its biodiversity and also its coal deposits.<\/li>\n<li>The forest falls under Korba, Surajpur and Sarguja districts with sizeable tribal population.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Hasdeo River<\/strong>, a <strong>tributary of Mahanadi<\/strong>, flows through it.<\/li>\n<li>It is the largest un-fragmented forests in Central India consisting of <strong>pristine Sal<\/strong> (Shorea robusta) and <strong>teak forests.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is sustainable development?<\/h3>\n<p>Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/indian-forest-activist-alok-shukla-awarded-the-goldman-environmental-prize\/article68124978.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Indian forest activist Alok Shukla awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goldman Environmental Prize recognizes individuals for sustained and significant efforts to protect and enhance the natural environment, often at great personal risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}