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Ndyakira Ntamuhiira Amooti ( – 25 August 1999) was a Ugandan children's writer, journalist and environmentalist, awarded the Global 500 Roll of Honour and winner of the Goldman Environment Prize.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Alphabetical list of recipients )〕 ==Life and career== Amooti worked as a journalist for the Kampala newspaper ''The New Vision'' from 1986. He lived in a village in the Ibanda District. He reported on various environmental issues, such as endangered mountain gorillas, the forests of Bwindi, on illegal mining and poaching. He also called attention on the business of smuggling of rare animals for the purpose of exposition or laboratory experiments, in particular endangered chimpanzees and parrots.〔 In 1993 he was awarded the Global 500 Roll of Honour of the United Nations Environment Programme.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Global 500 Forum )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Adult Award Winner in 1993: Ndyakira Ntamuhirra Amooti (d. 1999) )〕 He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1996.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Africa 1996. Ndyakira Amooti. Wildlife & Endangered Species )〕 He later focused on forest protection and on the environment of Lake Victoria.〔 He published the children's book ''What a Country Without Animals!'' in 1998,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Books authored by Ndyakira Amooti )〕 and has also published the books ''What a Country Without Birds'', ''What a Country Without Grasslands'' and ''What a Country Without Wetlands''. The books are about environmental issues, written for children from nine to twelve years old, and the story's principal character is the young man "Kazoora". Amooti died from leukemia in 1999, 43 years old. In accordance with his wishes, he was buried without a coffin; his body was wrapped in a palm-leaf mat.〔 〕 He is regarded as a pioneer in the awareness of environmental issues in Uganda. At the World Wetlands Day in 2008, Amooti was honored with a memorial lecture.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ndyakira Amooti」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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