{"id":19385,"date":"2013-04-17T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T08:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=19385"},"modified":"2013-04-17T08:00:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T08:00:43","slug":"s-african-fracking-activist-wins-international-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/17\/s-african-fracking-activist-wins-international-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"S.African Fracking Activist Wins International Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19387\" alt=\"karooland\" src=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/karooland.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/karooland.jpg 750w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/karooland-300x122.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align:center;\">South African Fracking Activist Wins International Prize<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Johnathan Deal has previously written about fracking in South Africa for Green.24 here. This year\u2019s other Goldman Prize winners hail from Iraq, Italy, Indonesia, Columbia and the USA.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19388\" alt=\"johnathandeal\" src=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/johnathandeal.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>Jonathan Deal, the South African grassroots anti-fracking activist and founder of the non-profit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treasurethekaroo.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Treasure Karoo Action Group<\/a> has been awarded the prestigious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldmanprize.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Goldman Environmental Prize<\/a> for 2013.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldmanprize.org\/recipient\/jonathan-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deal<\/a> and the five other recipients of this year\u2019s prize will each receive $150 000 (approximately R1.4m) to use in their endeavours to protect the environment.<\/p>\n<p>Founded by US philanthropists Richard N. and Rhoda H. Goldman in 1989, the Goldman Environmental Prize is awarded annually to recognise and support the work of grassroots environmental activists around the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Watch this video about Deal\u2019s work in South Africa:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">[youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QqqwGCz4xZ4?rel=0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African Fracking Activist Wins International Prize Johnathan Deal has previously written about fracking in South Africa for Green.24 here. This year\u2019s other Goldman Prize winners hail from Iraq, Italy, Indonesia, Columbia and the USA. Jonathan Deal, the South African grassroots anti-fracking activist and founder of the non-profit Treasure Karoo Action Group has been awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for 2013. Deal and the five other recipients of this year\u2019s prize will each receive $150 000 (approximately R1.4m) to use in their endeavours to protect the environment. Founded by<a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/17\/s-african-fracking-activist-wins-international-prize\/\" class=\"read-more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}