Maria Elena Foronda Farro
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Maria Elena Foronda Farro is a Peruvian sociologist and environmentalist
. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize
in 2003, for her campaigns of improving waste treatment from the country's fishmeal industry.
Environmentalist
An environmentalist broadly supports the goals of the environmental movement, "a political and ethical movement that seeks to improve and protect the quality of the natural environment through changes to environmentally harmful human activities"...
. She was awarded 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...
in 2003, for her campaigns of improving waste treatment from the country's fishmeal industry.