Anne Kajir Receives Environmental Prize

Anne Kajir, who has been working at the Environmental Law center, supported entirely by the RFF FUND, receiving the prestigious GOLDMAN Environmental Prize in  2006.

Anne Kajir uncovered evidence of widespread corruption and complicity in the Papua New Guinea government, which allowed rampant illegal logging that is destroying the largest remaining intact block of tropical forest in the Asia-Pacific Region.
In 1997, her first year practicing law, Anne Kajir successfully defended a precedent setting-appeal in the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea that forced the logging interests to pay damages to indigenous landowners.

We are happy for her, for the Environmental Law Center and the group of young lawyers who work in a difficult environment against the powerful forces of destruction of the forest. A big piece of forest is saved.

This is the very essence of our existence as Rainforest Foundation Fund.

Photo courtesy of The Goldman Environmental Prize