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Activist's Work To Protect Cook Islands Wins Goldman Environmental Prize

NPR
Published April 29, 2019 at 1:40 PM EDT
Jaqueline Evans is a winner of a 2019 Goldman Environmental Prize for her work advocating for the protection of 763,000 square miles of ocean around the Cook Islands in the South Pacific. (Courtesy of the Goldman Environmental Prize)
Jaqueline Evans is a winner of a 2019 Goldman Environmental Prize for her work advocating for the protection of 763,000 square miles of ocean around the Cook Islands in the South Pacific. (Courtesy of the Goldman Environmental Prize)

Jaqueline Evans is a winner of a 2019 Goldman Environmental Prize for her work advocating for the protection of 763,000 square miles of ocean around the Cook Islands in the South Pacific.

Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson talks with Evans about her grassroots activism.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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