Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation

Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation - History




			Read the latest AwardeeLinks issue for January to June 2010. Get to know what our awardees have been doing and which project partnerships are in the buzz by checking the CURRENTS section. Visit the SPARKS section to know more about 2009 Awardees Yu Xiaogang, Ma Jun, and Antonio Oposa Jr. and how they address environmental issues from their part of the world. Hear from India's Kiran Bedi and Sri Lanka's Ananda Galappatti as they share their personal experiences in being a TV judge, and in learning from one's daughter IN THEIR OWN WORDS. Leave us your comments, questions, and suggestions through the recently added *Write to us!* e-Newsletter add-on!

Magsaysay Awardees working on the Environment


			ANGEL ALCALA - 1992 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Public Service from the Philippines. A marine ecologist by training, Dr. Angel Alcala has been working to rehabilitate and restore the vitality of the Philippines' coral reefs. He established the country's first marine sanctuary, and proved that with community involvement and support marine life can be preserved and enriched, alongside increased catch for the fishermen. read more...

			CHANDI PRASAD BHATT - 1982 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Community Leadership from India. Chandi Prasad Bhatt organized the Dasholi Gram Swarajya Mandal (Society for Village Self-Rule), which offered jobs in Indian village and small-scale forest-based industries. In 1973, he developed a peaceful and personal way to prevent the destructive felling of trees. read more...

			LIANG CONGJIE - 2000 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Public Service from China. As founder of Friends of Nature, he alerted society to the environmental catastrophe created by China's industrial revolution, working with the groups who could effectively espouse change: central government, media, and the studentry. read more...

			MAHESH CHANDER MEHTA - 1997 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Public Service from India. Mahesh Chander Mehta champions environmental law in India, successfully fightingt an astonishing 40-odd cases in the public interest. read more...

			ANTONIO OPOSA JR. - 2009 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee from the Philippines. Antonio Oposa Jr. believes that the worsening situation of the marine ecosystem, particularly in the Visayan Sea ecoregion, can be reversed, for the sake of future generations. This passionate conviction is manifested in his spirited crusade as an environmental lawyer and activist. read more...

			RAJENDRA SINGH - 2001 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Community Leadership from India. Rajendra Singh settled in Alwar, Rajasthan, a district where the degraded environment had rendered the land barren and the people destitute. read more...

			SEIEI TOYAMA - 2003 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Peace and International Understanding from Japan. A former professor and a Japanese authority on desert agriculture, Seiei Toyama decided to spend his retirement years reversing the increasing desertification of Inner Mongolia, and thus preserve the numerous communities being destroyed by yearly sandstorms coming from the Gobi desert. read more...

			TANG XIYANG - 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Peace and International Understanding from China. During China's Cultural Revolution, many years of forced labor in the countryside led Tang Xiyang to the beauty and healing power of nature; thereafter he began his lifelong advocacy for the protection and conservation of the environment. read more...

			YU XIAOGANG - 2009 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee from China. Yu Xiaogang is a leading figure in the debate on dams and their social impact. China boasts of a staggering eighty-five thousand dams or 46 percent of all such structures in the world. Clearly, hydropower is vital for China's economic development. read more...