The Prince of Wales’s Earthshot prize will host its forthcoming annual awards ceremony at a venue owned by the billionaire Ambani family conglomerate(企业集团), drawing criticism from(招致批评) conservationist(环保人士)s over their fossil fuel businesses and their foundation’s controversial mega-zoo(大型动物园).
威尔士亲王的地球奋斗奖即将举行的年度颁奖典礼将在亿万富翁安巴尼家族企业集团旗下的场馆举办，此举招致环保人士批评，矛头指向该集团的化石燃料业务及其基金会备受争议的大型动物园。
A spokesperson for the Earthshot prize, which awards £1m to five winners every year to invest in conservation work, confirmed to the Guardian and the news outlet Mongabay that this year’s ceremony will be held at the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai on 17 November.(地球奋斗奖发言人向《卫报》和Mongabay证实，今年颁奖典礼将于11月17日在孟买Jio世界会议中心举行。)
地球奋斗奖每年向五位获奖者颁发100万英镑用于环保工作，其发言人向《卫报》和新闻机构Mongabay证实，今年的颁奖典礼将于11月17日在孟买的Jio世界会议中心举行。
The venue is part of Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries, which also owns Jamnagar, the world’s biggest oil refinery(炼油厂) in Gujarat on India’s western coast. The group’s philanthropic(慈善的) arm funds the 1,400-hectare (3,500-acre) private zoo Vantara, which was founded by Mukesh’s son Anant Ambani and inaugurate(为…揭幕)d by the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, last year. The zoo is embroiled(卷入) in a long-running controversy over its vast collection of more than 150,000 animals, which reportedly includes some of the world’s most endangered(濒危的) species – from the radiated tortoise, native to Madagascar, to the Spix’s macaw(斯皮克斯金刚鹦鹉), endemic(特有的) to north-eastern Brazil but now considered extinct in the wild(野外灭绝).
该场馆属于穆克什·安巴尼的信实工业旗下，该集团还拥有位于印度西海岸古吉拉特邦的贾姆讷格尔炼油厂，这是全球最大的炼油厂。该集团的慈善机构资助了占地1400公顷（3500英亩）的私人动物园Vantara，该动物园由穆克什之子阿南特·安巴尼创办，印度总理纳伦德拉·莫迪去年为其揭幕。该动物园因收集超过15万只动物而陷入长期争议，据报道其中包括一些世界上最濒危的物种——从原产于马达加斯加的辐射陆龟，到巴西东北部特有但现已被认为野外灭绝的斯皮克斯金刚鹦鹉。