The award honors grassroots activists around the world who are dedicated to protecting the environment and promoting sustainability
Munduruku leader Alessandra Korap poses at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, April 19, 2023. Korap, from the Brazilian Amazon, has been awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her work fighting against illegal mining and large-scale projects aimed at facilitating soybean exports in the Tapajos River Basin. — When Alessandra Korap was born in the mid-1980s, her Indigenous village nestled in the Amazonin Brazil was a haven of seclusion.
The influx posed a grave threat to Korap’s Munduruku people, 14,000-strong and spread throughout the Tapajos River Basin, in Para and Mato Grosso states. Soon illegal mining, hydroelectric dams, a major railway and river ports for soybean exports choked their lands — lands they were still struggling to have recognized.
Korap’s defense of her ancestral territory was recognized with the Goldman Environmental Prize on Monday. . Still, the Munduruku people celebrated a victory in 2021 when the British mining company Anglo American gave up trying to mine inside Indigenous territories in Brazil, including Sawre Muybu.
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