make preferableRussian-Armenian environmentalist Suren Gazaryan has become a 2014 Goldman Environmental Prize Winner.
The “environmental Oscar” was awarded to Gazaryan for his campaign to preserve the Black Sea coast, RFE/RL reported.
“An internationally recognized bat expert and zoologist, Suren Gazaryan led multiple campaigns exposing government corruption and illegal use of federally protected forestland along Russia’s Black Sea coast,” wrote the Goldman Environmental Prize official website.
The Goldman Environmental Prize is awarded every year to six activists; one from each continent.
Suren Gazaryan has received political asylum in Estonia.
