Evaristo Nugkuag Ikanan (born 1950) is a Peruvian activist for environmental and indigenous people causes. He is a member of the

Aguaruna people The Aguaruna (or Awajún, their endonym) are an indigenous people of the Peruvian jungle. They live primarily on the Marañón River in northern Peru near the border with Ecuador and several of the Marañón's tributaries, the rivers Santiago, N ...

. He organized the ''Alliance of the Indian Peoples of the Peruvian Amazon'' (AIDESEP) and ''Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica'' " COICA" to serve indigenous people. In 1986, he was awarded the

Right Livelihood Award The Right Livelihood Award is an international award to "honour and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today." The prize was established in 1980 by German-Swedish philanthropist Jakob v ...

for "organising to protect the rights of the Indians of the Amazon basin."

Awards

*1986

*1991

Goldman Environmental Prize The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots environmental activists, one from each of the world's six geographic regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, and South and Central America. ...

References

Indigenous activists of the Americas Indigenous people of the Amazon Peruvian environmentalists 1950 births Living people Goldman Environmental Prize awardees {{environmentalist-stub