Marc Ona
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Marc Ona is president and founder of the environmental NGO Brainforest and president of Environment Gabon. Gabon
is a country in West Central Africa
and Marc Ona, who uses a wheelchair for mobility, is leading efforts to expose agreements behind a Chinese mining project that threatens equatorial rainforest ecosystems. The proposed Belinga development, a $3.5 billion project that includes a mine, a dam, railroads and a port, has been secretly negotiated. Local communities were not consulted and are unaware of the effect that the project would have on their environment. In 2009 Ona won the Goldman Environmental Prize
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Gabon
Gabon , officially the Gabonese Republic is a state in west central Africa sharing borders with Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, and with the Republic of the Congo curving around the east and south. The Gulf of Guinea, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean is to the west...
is a country in West Central Africa
Central Africa
Central Africa is a core region of the African continent which includes Burundi, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda....
and Marc Ona, who uses a wheelchair for mobility, is leading efforts to expose agreements behind a Chinese mining project that threatens equatorial rainforest ecosystems. The proposed Belinga development, a $3.5 billion project that includes a mine, a dam, railroads and a port, has been secretly negotiated. Local communities were not consulted and are unaware of the effect that the project would have on their environment. In 2009 Ona won the Goldman Environmental Prize
Goldman Environmental Prize
The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots environmental activists, one from each of the world's six geographic regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, and South and Central America. The prize includes a no-strings-attached award of...
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