Defending rivers is defending our own life – Minnesota Press

“To defend the rivers is to defend our own life”: Mari Luz Canaquiri, the guardian of the Marañón River who achieved a historic failure in Peru and won the “Green Nobel” By: Alejandra Martins-,BBC News Mundo Mari Luz Canaquiri was born and lives on the shores of what she considers a sacred being. That is for her and her people in Peru the Marañón River, which flows along more than 1700 km from the Andes Mountain Range to join the Amazon. Canaqui…

The Goldman Prize is a prize awarded annually as a reward to defenders of nature and the environment, divided into 6 categories depending on the geographical area: Africa, Asia, Europe, island nations, North America, Central America and South America (which in this occasion was for Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari for his defense of the Marañón River).The award was instituted in 1990 by philanthropists Richard N. Goldman (1920-2010) and Rhoda H.