Wanze Eduards and Hugo Jabini

Wanze Eduards and Hugo Jabini - winners 2009 of the Goldman Environmental Prize

Wanze Eduards and Hugo Jabini, members of a Maroon community originally established by freed African slaves in the 1700s, successfully organized their communities against logging on their traditional lands, ultimately leading to a landmark ruling for indigenous and tribal peoples throughout the Americas to control resource exploitation in their territories.