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:"The winners of UNEP's Global 500 Roll of Honour are members of a broad and growing environmental movement that is flourishing around the world. They have taken the path that most of us hesitate to take for want of time or caring. In honouring the Global 500 laureates, UNEP hopes that others will be inspired by their extraordinary deeds." Klaus Toepfer - UNEP's Executive Director 2001 Since the inception of the award in 1987, over 719 individuals and organizations, in both the adult and youth categories, have been honoured with the Global 500 award. Among prominent past winners are: French Marine explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau ; Sir David Attenborough , producer of environmental television programmes; Gro Harlem Brundtland , former Prime Minister of Norway; Anil Aggarwal , the prominent environmentalist from India; Dr. Frederick Gikandi , a Kenyan environmentalist; Ken Saro-Wiwa , the environmental and human rights activist from Nigeria who was executed for leading the resistance of the Ogoni People against the pollution of their Delta homeland; the Worldwide Fund For Nature (WWF), Jimmy Carter , former President of the United States; Jane Goodall of the United Kingdom whose research on wild chimpanzees and olive baboons provided insight into the lives of non-human primates; and the late Chico Mendes , the Brazilian rubber tapper who was murdered during his fight to save the Amazon forest. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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