Raoul du Toit, a Zimbabwe-based conservationist who has taken a very direct approach to saving Africa's Critically Endangered black rhino, has been selected as one of the six winners of this year's Goldman Environmental Prize.
The prize, founded by American philanthropist Richard Goldman, is the world's largest award for grassroots environmentalists.
One recipient from each of the world's six inhabited continents will receive the $150,000 (ã92,000) prize.
Mr du Toit's fellow recipients include a biologist who initiated a local movement to stop industrial pollution flowing into an Indonesian river that provides water to three million people, and an activist who has fought to protect a remote island off Russia's far east from being damaged by an oil development project.
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