environmental journalism
(From PINA Nius Online)
Nadi, Fiji Islands (PINA Nius Online, 27 July 2000) - Two Pacific
Islands editors and two people who helped develop environmental
journalism in the region received International Green Pen Awards
at Nadi yesterday.
France's ambassador, Mr Jean-Pierre Vidon, presented the awards
during ceremonies at the joint Asia-Pacific and Commonwealth
environmental journalism congress at the Fiji Mocambo Hotel. The
congress is hosted by the Pacific Islands News Association's PINA
Pacific Forum of Environmental Journalists.
The International Green Pen Awards are to honour those who have
made great contributions to environmental journalism, said Nina
Ratulele, general secretary of PINA Pacific Forum of
Environmental Journalists.
Honoured at Nadi were:
Mr Yohei Sasakawa, president of the Sasakawa Pacific Island
Nations Fund of Japan. Mr Sasakawa was honoured for initiating,
supporting and promoting over many years the highly successful
and effective environmental journalism exchange programme between
Japan islands and the Pacific Islands. This is run by SPINF in
conjunction with PINA. It has included bringing leading Pacific
Islands environmental journalists to speak at influential
Japanese seminars. This was to help build understanding in Japan
of the impact of climate change on the Pacific Islands.
Mrs Anna Solomon, editor-in-chief of Papua New Guinea Word
Publishing newspaper group. Mrs Solomon is honoured for the the
investigative reporting she has inspired and supported. Her
newspapers have been at the forefront of investigative
environmental journalism that has been conducted despite threats
and efforts to stop it. This reporting has contributed to changes
in policies and laws on forestry and protection of the
environment.
Mr Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal. Mr
Johnson is honoured for working constantly to strip away the
secrecy that surrounded the American atmospheric bomb tests in
the Marshall Islands and their impact on the islands and people
of the Marshall Islands. He has played the key role in building
both local and international awareness of the impact of the
American testing.
Mr Adlai Amor, media director of the World Resources Institute =
and former chairperson of the Asia-Pacific Forum of Environmental
Journalists. Mr Amor, a Filipino, is honoured for dedicating his
life to the development of good environmental journalism in the
Asia-Pacific region. He has worked unstintingly to develop
excellence in environmental journalism, as a journalist, as a
trainer and as a media organisation leader. Workshops he
conducted in the Pacific Islands for PINA led to the formation of
the PINA Pacific Forum of Environmental Journalists.
The Nadi congress finishes Friday. Environmental journalists from
PINA member news organisations in 11 Pacific Islands countries
have joined colleagues from around in the world in participating
in it. - PINA Nius Online.
SOURCE: PINA Nius Online
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