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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: May 01, 2015
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• Category : Diaspora News
• Description : Reuters
  April 22, 2015 7:43 PM
  
  Photo: Jean Wiener is seen on a beach off the northwest coast of Haiti, near the recently established Marine Protected Area in Caracol Bay. (Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize)
• Location : Miami, FL, United States
• Website : http://www.voanews.com/content/reu-haitian-jean-weiner-goldman-prize/2731108.html

Overview

• MIAMI—A Haitian marine biologist who successfully fought to create a national park to protect a large swath of Haiti's north coast has won a prominent U.S. environmental activism prize.
  
  Jean Wiener was awarded a Goldman Environmental Foundation prize for his efforts to establish the Caribbean nation's first Marine Protected Areas while working with local communities to promote sustainable fishing practices and preserve mangrove forests.
  
  In awarding the $175,000 prize, the Goldman foundation highlighted Wiener's efforts in overcoming extreme poverty and political instability in Haiti, a country with few full-time environmentalists and almost no government programs to protect natural resources.
  
  Wiener, 50, is being honored along with five other prize winners at a ceremony in Washington on Wednesday for a campaign he led to create the Three Bays National Park, covering 75,000 square km (30,000 square miles) stretching from the city of Cap Haitien to the border with the Dominican Republic.
  
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