{"id":5825,"date":"2022-05-25T19:09:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T19:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelfoundation.org\/?p=5825"},"modified":"2022-05-25T19:09:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T19:09:14","slug":"goldman-environmental-prize-honors-indigenous-land-defenders-in-ecuador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/2022\/05\/25\/goldman-environmental-prize-honors-indigenous-land-defenders-in-ecuador\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldman Environmental Prize Honors Indigenous Land Defenders from Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On May 25, 2022, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldmanprize.org\/blog\/introducing-the-2022-goldman-environmental-prize-winners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Goldman Environmental Prize<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> honored Alex Lucitante and Alexandra Narvaez, grantees of Channel partners <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelfoundation.org\/grants\/global-greengrants\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Global Greengrants<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelfoundation.org\/grants\/cultural-survival\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Cultural Survival<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. <\/span><!--more--><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Goldman Prize, which has become the world\u2019s most recognized and celebrated environmental prize since it was first awarded in 1990, is awarded to leaders making a difference in advancing environmental rights in their communities and regions. This year\u2019s prize for Latin America recognizes the Ecuadorians\u2019 leadership in the community of Sinangoe\u2019s struggle to protect their ancestral territory in Ecuador from gold mining. The roughly 200 <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Cof\u00e1n people<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> of Sinangoe depend on the forest and rivers in and around their territories for food, drinking water, and sacred medicinal plants as detailed in a Business Insider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/indigenous-guard-members-in-ecuador-win-goldman-environmental-prize-2022-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> about the winners.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This award is also exciting for former Channel partner <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelfoundation.org\/grants\/digital-democracy\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Digital Democracy<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, which worked closely with the people of Sinangoe when illegal miners began crossing into their territory to prospect for gold. With support from Digital Democracy, in 2017 the community created La Guardia de Asentamiento Ancestral Cofan de Sinangoe (La Guardia) to patrol their territory, collect evidence with GPS, drones, and camera traps, and confront and evict the illegal miners. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">La Guardia is also a grantee of Channel partner Cultural Survival through their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.culturalsurvival.org\/programs\/advocacy\/koef\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keepers of the Earth Fund<\/a>, which is an Indigenous-led fund designed to support Indigenous People\u2019s community advocacy and development projects.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This is an incredible win for Indigenous people everywhere who are risking their lives to defend their lands, cultures, and climate.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 25, 2022, the Goldman Environmental Prize honored Alex Lucitante and Alexandra Narvaez, grantees of Channel partners<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[140,18,118,121],"class_list":["post-5825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","tag-aiwrl","tag-cultural-survival","tag-gg","tag-lac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}