based magazine The Ecologist, won the prize for Europe for her campaign to stop construction of Europe's largest open-cast gold mine, slated to be built in Romania. She was also involved in a successful grassroots movement to stop development of a so-called "Dracula Theme Park" in Transylvania, a project that would have destroyed an ancient oak forest reserve next to a medieval citadel. Agronomist Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, 58, from Papay, Haiti, won the prize for islands and island nations. He founded the Peasant Movement of Papay in 1973 to teach the people of Haiti the principles of sustainable agriculture and anti-erosion techniques in a country that is literally washing away because of extreme deforestation. --More 2333 Local Time 2033 GMT
