Pisit Charnsnoh
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Pisit Charnsnoh from the Trang Province
, Thailand
, cofounded the Yadfon Association in 1985. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize
in 2002, for his efforts on protecting the coastal ecosystems of Thailand. Charnsnoh is on the board of the international Seattle-based Mangrove Action Project, and is affiliated with the Industrial Shrimp Action Network.
Trang Province
Trang is one of the southern provinces of Thailand, at the western shore of the Malay Peninsula to the Andaman Sea. Neighboring provinces are Krabi, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Phatthalung and Satun....
, Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
, cofounded the Yadfon Association in 1985. He 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 2002, for his efforts on protecting the coastal ecosystems of Thailand. Charnsnoh is on the board of the international Seattle-based Mangrove Action Project, and is affiliated with the Industrial Shrimp Action Network.