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Alternative Nobel for Argentinean Biologist

 

The Cordoba Biologist Raul Montenegro who had already received the Global Prize 500 of the United Nations in Belgium (1989), the Prize for a Future Free of Nuclear in Austria (1992), and even before the Prize to the Scientific Investigation of the University of Buenos Aires (1971), it will be rewarded with the Prize Alternative Nobel (Right Livelihood Award).

The delivery of the Prize will be carried out December 9 in the Swedish Parliament from Stockholm; it will be shared with the Organization Russian Defender of the Human Rights "Brief" and the militant of the Human Rights Bianca Jagger, the singer's of the Rolling Stones former wife Mick Jagger.

Montenegro, current president of the Foundation for the Defense of the Atmosphere (FUNAM) and regular professor of Evolutionary Biology in the National University of Cordoba, obtained his prize for his work to the front of antinuclear activities, the creation of protected natural areas, the discovery and accusation of deposits of toxic residuals, the combat to the chemical contamination and for magnetic fields, the fight against the deforestation and the protection of the water resources, and for his work with the indigenous communities in defense of the atmosphere.

The prize, established in 1980 for the writer and former member of the European Parliament Jacob Von Uexkull that consists of 268.000 dollars, according to Montenegro, it will be used for new pending tasks, as the production of documentaries to diffuse diverse problematic
. 12/04

 


 

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