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Mon 04 Apr 2007Tributes to Mayo farmerTributes have been paid in north Mayo to farmer Willie Corduff who is due to be presented with the $125,000 (€91,770) Goldman Environmental Prize in San Francisco, US, tonight.Mr Corduff (53), who was jailed in 2005 over opposition to the Corrib gas pipeline, and Icelandic businessman Orri Vigfusson (64), who campaigned for a ban on wild salmon drift-netting in Ireland, are among six international winners of this year's awards.