REGIONAL
WINNERS
Asia
| Title: |
The Untold Story
When an environmental catastrophe threatens a city, it is one scoop private news agencies vie to get their hands on. The oil spill along the Karachi coast is just one such story. |
| Journalist: |
Massoud Ansari |
| Nationality: |
Pakistani |
| Publication: |
Newsline |
| Type of Media: |
Monthly News Magazine |
| Date: |
September 2003 |
| Read: |
the-untold-story.htm |
Europe
| Article: |
Breaking up is hard to do
Single-hulled ships are being rushed to the scrapyard in the wake of oil spills such as that of the Prestige. But will breaking them up cause environmental havoc too? |
| Journalist: |
Duncan Graham-Rowe |
| Nationality: |
British |
| Publication: |
Nature, Vol. 429 |
| Type of Media: |
Weekly Science Journal |
| Date: |
24 June 2004 |
| Read: |
breaking-up-is-hard.htm |
English-speaking Africa and the Middle East
| Article: |
Persuading all to hold nature dear
In the run up to the fifth World Parks Congress, Leon Marshall looks at how money, poaching, poverty and history hinder the true importance of conservation. |
| Journalist: |
Leon Marshall |
| Nationality: |
South African |
| Publication: |
Sunday Argus |
| Type of Media: |
Weekly Newspaper |
| Date: |
17 August 2003 |
| Read: |
persuading-all-to-hold-nature.htm |
French-speaking Africa
| Article: |
Congo Brazzaville: oil and gas flarings pollute the coasts
Tar on the beaches, fish with hydrocarbon taste, desiccated plants, populations suffering from respiratory diseases…In Congo Brazzaville, the intensive exploitation of oil at sea seriously pollutes the coasts. This however, seems little worry to the all-powerful oil companies and hardly more the government. |
| Journalist: |
Jean Valère Ngoubangoyi and Esther Pabou Mbaki |
| Nationality: |
Congolese |
| Publication: |
Press Agency Syfia International |
| Type of Media: |
Internet Publication (www.syfia.info) |
| Date: |
2 September 2003 |
| Read: |
congo-brazzaville-oil-and-gas.htm |
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| French version: |
Congo Brazzaville: pétrole et gaz brûlés polluent les Côtes |
| Read: |
congo-brazzaville-oil-and-gas-fr.htm |
Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean
| Article: |
The Outflows of Coatepeque
Coatepeque Lake is undergoing an alarming reduction in water levels, as has not been seen in the past 40 years. Revista Dominical began a series of publications with the aim of understanding the reasons behind this phenomenon, which has placed on alert the local inhabitants of the basin and the State institutions in charge of supervising this water resource. |
| Journalist: |
Tomàs H. Guevara |
| Nationality: |
El Salvadorian |
| Publication: |
La Prensa Gràfica |
| Type of Media: |
Daily Newspaper |
| Date: |
From April 25th (first publication) through May 16th 2004 |
| Read: |
the-outflows-of-coatepeque.htm |
North America, Oceania and the English-speaking Caribbean
| Article: |
State of Denial
California’s environmental legacy of conserving resources at home is on a collision course with its habit of consuming them in record quantities from abroad. And often the losers are impoverished citizens and communities – and spectacular ecosystems - in remote parts of the globe, where money speaks louder than the land. |
| Journalist: |
Tom Knudson |
| Nationality: |
United States |
| Publication: |
The Sacramento Bee |
| Type of Media: |
Daily Newspaper |
| Date: |
27 April 2004 |
| Read: |
state-of-denial.htm |
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