And the 2009 Right Livelihood Awards have been announced with four recipients. The Canadian scientist David Suzuki will receive the Honorary Award for his lifelong environmental advocacy. The other honorees are Congo activist Rene Ngongo, who has fought for preserving the Congo’s rainforests; New Zealand anti-nuclear activist Alyn Ware; and Catherine Hamlin, an Australian doctor who has treated African women suffering from childbirth injuries for over fifty years. The Right Livelihood Awards are awarded annually and are widely known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize.”