{"id":2501,"date":"2026-07-21T10:21:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T01:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.npf.or.jp\/english\/\/.html"},"modified":"2026-07-21T10:21:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T01:21:48","slug":"43rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.npf.or.jp\/english\/peace_prize\/43rd.html","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Benki Piy\u00e3ko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 43rd Niwano Peace Prize was awarded to Mr. Benki Piy\u00e3ko, an Indigenous spiritual leader of the Ashaninka People in Brazil\u2019s Amazon. He is recognized for sustained leadership in defending Indigenous land and culture and for pioneering reforestation and environmental protection over the past fifteen years. Through founding the Yorenka Tasorentsi Institute and the Indigenous Ayahuasca Conference, he has advanced education, community-based ecological restoration, and the transmission of traditional knowledge, mobilizing youth and communities for large-scale reforestation and biodiversity conservation.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPlease watch the digest version of the video of the Presentation Ceremony below.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/leU9mkfGw4I?si=MvvNXC3-cDh2dgm-\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nUnauthorized copying and replication of the contents of this site are prohibited.<\/p>\n<div class=\"detail-photos clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/npf02.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-zgy6aBmm\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1475\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/npf02.jpg\" alt=\"Scenes from the awards ceremony\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/npf03.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-zgy6aBmm\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/npf03.jpg\" alt=\"greeting\" width=\"280\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/npf04.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-zgy6aBmm\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1476\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/npf04.jpg\" alt=\"Certificate of Commendation\" width=\"280\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/npf05.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-zgy6aBmm\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1474\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/npf05.jpg\" alt=\"News of the award appeared in the newspaper.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 43rd Niwano Peace Prize was awarded to Mr. Benki Piy\u00e3ko, an Indigenous spiritual leader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-npp_recipients"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.npf.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.npf.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.npf.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.npf.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.npf.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.npf.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2507,"href":"https:\/\/www.npf.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions\/2507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.npf.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.npf.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.npf.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}