That’s a wrap! Over the past week, the 2026 #GoldmanPrize winners:
📍 Explored San Francisco
🤝 Networked with past Prize winners, funders, and nonprofit colleagues
🎙️ Shared their stories with media outlets
🍎 Inspired local students
🌊 Enjoyed the California coast
✨ And much more!
Meet the 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize winners! 🏆🌎
Discover their stories: goldmanprize.org/2026
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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
#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.
Goldman Environmental Prize winners are on the ground at #ClimateWeekNYC! 🔥🌎
Our team is excited to be in New York with Francisco Pineda, Marcel Gomes, Makoma Lekalakala, Helen Holden Slottje, Bobby Peek, and Prince Chima Williams—environmental defenders from around the world.
🌊 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. 🦈
Robert Redford's voice, vision, and unwavering commitment to our planet will be deeply missed.
For nearly 20 years, he generously lent his voice as the narrator of Goldman Environmental Prize winner videos, elevating stories of grassroots leaders around the world.
Our statement: bit.ly/41TdaVw
One of the latest Goldman Prize winners on @mongabay.com's podcast:
Carlos Molina was building Canary Islands infrastructure he realized would harm a marine protected area #MPA he loves
So he quit his job and won the argument for conservation & then the 2025 @goldmanprize.bsky.social
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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.
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The 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize winners explored San Francisco, networked with past Prize winners, funders, and nonprofit colleagues and shared their stories with local students.
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Since winning the Goldman Prize in 1991, New Zealand activist Cath Wallace has continued to advocate for Antarctica and environmental accountability.
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.
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...
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The Goldman Environmental Prize just completed a wonderful week of celebration and community. Here are a few top moments.