Save the date! 🌎🏆 The 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize winners will be announced on Monday, April 20.

#GoldmanPrize winners prove that you don’t have to cross oceans to find environmental leadership—you might find it next door. Meaningful change is always within reach.

#ChangeStartsWhereYouStand

Prize Winners Today: Defending Vulnerable Ecosystems with Cath Wallace Since winning the Goldman Prize in 1991, New Zealand activist Cath Wallace has continued to advocate for Antarctica and environmental accountability.

#GoldmanPrize winner Cath Wallace began her environmental advocacy in the 1980s. She hasn’t slowed down since. 🌏

Visit the Goldman Environmental Prize blog to read our conversation with Cath, 1991 Prize winner from New Zealand.

Prize Winners Today: Protecting Costa Rica’s Sharks with Randall Arauz Goldman Prize winner Randall Arauz knows what it takes to move the needle on marine conservation in Costa Rica: effective policy change, shifting public opinion, and persistence.

🌊 Meet Randall Arauz: conservationist, scuba diver, and 2010 #GoldmanPrize winner

We sat down with Randall to explore the current state of #shark conservation in Costa Rica, his fight to close legal loopholes, and what’s next for marine protection efforts. 🦈

💧 And at the frontlines? Women. Protectors. Visionaries.
They are not only defending Nature — they are reshaping law, justice, and the future.

👉 Share this to celebrate their courage and spread the movement. #WaterRights #GoldmanPrize @goldmanprize.bsky.social

🌊✨ In two consecutive years, the Goldman Prize — known as the "Green Nobel" — has honored two women fighting for the #RightsofNature and the rights of water bodies

👉 Share this to celebrate their courage and spread the movement. #WaterRights #GoldmanPrize

How a road engineer became an ocean activist & won the world’s top environmental prize Carlos Mallo Molina has been awarded the 2025 Goldman Environmental Prize for protecting the marine biodiversity of Tenerife, the most populated of the Canary Islands. On this episode of Mongabay’s po...

🏆 Carlos Mallo Molina traded road building for ocean saving. He helped stop a highway threatening Tenerife’s marine life & won the 2025 Goldman Prize. Now he’s turning the site into an ocean education center.

🎧 Hear his story on Mongabay:
#GoldmanPrize #OceanActivism #OceanOptimism

A Whirlwind Week with the 2025 Goldman Environmental Prize The Goldman Environmental Prize just completed a wonderful week of celebration and community. Here are a few top moments.

The Goldman Environmental Prize is closing out two busy weeks of celebration for the 2025 #GoldmanPrize winners. ✨🌍🙏

As part of #SFClimateWeek, @climateone.org hosted 2025 #GoldmanPrize winners Carlos Mallo Molina and @laureneallen.bsky.social in an intimate conversation at San Francisco's Commonwealth Club.

"The environment knows no boundaries or political borders." 🌍

Semia Gharbi, 2025 #GoldmanPrize winner from Tunisia, shares a powerful message at the Goldman Environmental Prize ceremony.

👉 Learn more about her work as an environmental leader: bit.ly/4cKysJ9

This 1,000-mile river suffered decades of oil spills. Now it’s a legal person, things could change | CNN Peru’s Marañón River was made a legal person, granting it the rights to be free-flowing and free of contamination. Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari, who was central to the campaign, has won the Goldman Env...

“The work that I’m doing is not only for my community, it’s for the world."

@cnn.com explores the story of Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari, river defender, Indigenous leader, grandmother, and now a 2025 #GoldmanPrize winner.

Batmunkh Luvsandash reflects on winning the 2025 #GoldmanPrize and his partnership with @nature.org.

Learn more about Batmunkh's conservation work in Mongolia: bit.ly/3DHiGRZ

This past week, the seven 2025 Goldman Prize winners gathered with past Prize recipients to exchange stories and best practices over a lively #EarthDay lunch.

They are all part of the global #GoldmanPrize community. 🌍

Winners of annual Goldman Environmental Prize to be honored in S.F. Amid what the Goldman Environmental Foundation called a a "tough year for both people and the planet," seven people were honored for environmental work.

@sfchronicle.com highlights the 2025 #GoldmanPrize winners—grassroots environmental leaders from around the world.

The Goldman Environmental Prize was created in 1989 by San Francisco civic leaders Rhoda & Richard Goldman, whose legacy lives on.

"Our planet thrives when the ocean thrives and, together, we can make this happen." 🐳🌊

Carlos Mallo Molina accepts the 2025 Goldman Environmental Prize. He is the first #GoldmanPrize winner from the Canary Islands.

Learn more about his work: bit.ly/442bSJF

Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari accepts the 2025 #GoldmanPrize for South & Central America. 🌎🍃

Discover more about Mari Luz's work to protect Peru's rivers and forests: bit.ly/3Gy0Wte

"This prize is a reminder that when people come together, they can make the impossible possible." 🏆

—Besjana Guri, 2025 #GoldmanPrize winner from Albania

Discover her story: bit.ly/4jIA6x8

How a Former Herder Protected Mongolia's Vast Grasslands Batmunkh Luvsandash has fought to protect more than a million acres of steppe lands in his native Mongolia. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he explains how, by drawing on the knowledge of l...

Read a Q&A with 2025 #GoldmanPrize winner Batmunkh Luvsandash and @yalee360.bsky.social. 🍃

Born to a nomadic herder family, Batmunkh has protected tens of thousands of acres of grasslands in Mongolia from mining degradation. 👏

Congratulations to the 2025 @goldmanprize.bsky.social winners! 🏆🌎

These grassroots heroes prove that when ordinary people take action, they have the power to turn apathy into positive change for the #environment. #GoldmanPrize

✨ Discover their stories: www.goldmanprize.org/2025/

La peruana Mari Luz Canaquiri y otros activistas ganan el Goldman La peruana Mari Luz Canaquiri así como otros seis activistas han sido galardonados con el Premio Goldman, considerado el Nobel medioambiental

🌱 La peruana Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari, “guardiana del río Marañón”, gana el Goldman de medioambiente #GoldmanPrize por su lucha en defensa del río junto a #mujeres indígenas kukama

"Vjosa Wild River National Park is a new model of how nature should be preserved as a whole and not in bits and pieces." —Olsi Nika, 2025 #GoldmanPrize winner from Albania #SaveVjosa

👉 Learn about his work: bit.ly/4jIA6x8

Batmunkh Luvsandash Goldman Environmental Prize winner Batmunkh Luvsandash’s activism helped creat a 66,000-acre protected area in Mongolia’s Dornogovi province.

It's an honor to recognize Batmunkh with the 2025 #GoldmanPrize. 💚 Watch a video about his work.

Rights of Nature Defender Wins Goldman Prize for Precedent-Setting Work Protecting an Imperiled River - Inside Climate News “We do this not only for us, but for all of humanity and all beings.” For Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari of Peru, a winner of this year’s prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize, everything in nature has...

“We do this not only for us, but for all of humanity and all beings." 🌎

Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari, 2025 #GoldmanPrize winner from Peru, shares her story with @insideclimatenews.org. @katiesurma.bsky.social

@laureneallen.bsky.social reflects on winning the 2025 #GoldmanPrize. 🏆

Learn more about Laurene's work as a community leader and environmental advocate: bit.ly/3YIcccO

Each year, volunteers help make the #GoldmanPrize San Francisco ceremony a success. 👏

Your commitment embodies the spirit of the Goldman Prize—championing a better, more sustainable world.

Thank you! 💚

Congratulations to the inspirational semia gharbi on winning the 2025 #GoldmanPrize, which represents Africa's green "Nobel Prize" for her work in #environmentalprotection!
Keep inspiring, Semia!

Introducing the 2025 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners The 2025 Goldman Environmental Prize winners prove that when it comes to protecting our planet, the doing makes the difference.

Inspiration is everywhere. ✨

The Goldman Environmental Prize brings to light the efforts of people from all corners of the globe who are protecting our Earth. 🌏

Meet the 2025 #GoldmanPrize winners.

💙 Join an online panel co-hosted by the #GoldmanPrize and International Rivers this afternoon, Wednesday, April 23, at 2:00 pm PDT.

You'll hear firsthand from 2025 Goldman Prize winners Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari (Peru) and Besjana Guri and Olsi Nika (Albania).

👉 bit.ly/3E46oUd

📸 // Adrian Guri

Grassroots activists who took on corruption and corporate power share 2025 Goldman prize Seven winners of environmental prize include Amazonian river campaigner and Tunisian who fought against organised waste trafficking

The 2025 #GoldmanPrize winners "underscore the courage and tenacity of local activists," writes the @theguardian.com. 🌏

Learn more about this year's grassroots environmental heroes.

Grassroots activists who took on corruption and corporate power share 2025 Goldman prize Seven winners of environmental prize include Amazonian river campaigner and Tunisian who fought against organised waste trafficking

Inspiring activists that we should all take direction from. Their successes show that when people come together, we can take on biggest corporate giants and stop the exploitation of people and the planet. Congratulations to all the winners! 🙌

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