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Historic First: Women Take All Six 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize Awards
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Published on: 22.04.2026 07:00Author: Sandra WeissYuvelis Morales fights against fracking on the Magdalena River and receives the Goldman Environmental Award. Despite death threats, the 24-year-old is committed to the rights of fishermen, farmers and nature.
Yuvelis Morales Blanco was a university student when the Colombian government announced two fracking projects in Puerto Wilches, department of Santander. The young woman, who lived close to the environmental pollution of the hydrocarbon industry, left her studies to help mobilize the community and, in 2022, managed to stop the introduction of this technique of oil and gas extraction. Two years later, the Constitutional Court confirmed that the p…
This year the Goldman Environmental Prize recognizes the commitment of six activists: for the first time since the establishment of the prize they are all women. They are called Iroro Tanshi (Africa), Theonila Roka Matbob (Islands and Island Nations), Alannah Acaq Hurley (North America), Yuvelis Morales Blanco (South and Central America), Borim Kim (Asia) and Sarah Finch (Europe).
Madrid.- The young Colombian activist Yuvelis Morales, who received last Monday the Goldman Environmental Award corresponding to Central and South America for her campaigns against ‘fracking’ in her country, considers that this struggle “is a commitment not only to the future life, but to the present life of the people”. “The young people we were born in this fossil era made us think that there was nothing else. But if we do not fight now agains…
Historic first: Women take all six 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize awards
US, April 21: For the first time ever, the Goldman Environmental Prize has this year been awarded exclusively to women from around the world for their efforts to fight climate change and protect biodiversity, acording to a report in Al Jazeera. The Goldman Prize, sometimes described as the “Green Nobel,” honours grassroots environmental activists from each of the world’s six primary regions, with each recipient awarded $200,000 in prize money. T…
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