Goldman Environmental Prize

About Goldman Environmental Prize: 

• The Prize recognizes individuals for sustained and significant efforts to protect and enhance the natural environment, often at great personal risk.
• It is also known as the Green Nobel.
• It recognizes grassroots environmental heroes from roughly the world’s six inhabited continental regions: Africa, Asia, Europe,Islands & Island Nations, North America and South & Central America
• The Goldman Prize views “grassroots” leaders as those involved in local efforts, where positive change is created through community or citizen participation.
• The first Goldman Environmental Prize ceremony took place on April 16, 1990. It was timed to coincide with Earth Day.

Key facts about Hasdeo Aranya region

• It is a sprawling forest in the northern part of Chhattisgarh which is known for its biodiversity and also its coal deposits.
• The forest falls under Korba, Surajpur and Sarguja districts with sizeable tribal population.
• The Hasdeo River, a tributary of Mahanadi, flows through it.
• It is the largest un-fragmented forests in Central India consisting of pristine Sal (Shorea robusta) and teak forests.

Q1: What is sustainable development?

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Source: Indian forest activist Alok Shukla awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize