Marina Rikhvanova
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In 2008, Russian ecologist Marina Rikhvanova was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize at a ceremony at San Francisco’s Opera House. Rikhvanova, 46, is leader of the Baikal Ecological Wave (BEW) organization which protects Siberia’s Lake Baikal from ecological damage. Lake Baikal, the world’s biggest reservoir of fresh water, is currently under threat from pollution relating to the oil and nuclear energy industries.[1]