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Native Arctic Defenders, Somali Woman Among Winners of 2002 Goldman Environmental Prize
World's Largest Award for Grassroots Environmentalists [winners include an ecologist who works with fishers to protect & restore Thailand's coastal ecosystems devastated by industrial fishing & increased logging; a conservationist who has used eco-tourism to preserve Poland's traditional family farms; Gwich'in tribal leaders who have successfully defended the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling; an indigenous Guyanese woman who has overcome harassment to protect Amerindian lands from mining]