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The United Nations Environment Programme

United Nations Environment Programme

The United Nations Environment Programme coordinates United Nations environmental activities, assisting developing countries in implementing environmentally sound policies and practices. It was founded as a result of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in June 1972 and has its...

(UNEP) established the Global 500 Roll of Honour in 1987 to recognize the environmental achievements of individuals and organizations around the world.

"The winners of UNEP's Global 500 Roll of Honour are members of a broad and growing environmental movement that is flourishing around the world. They have taken the path that most of us hesitate to take for want of time or caring. In honouring the Global 500 laureates, UNEP hopes that others will be inspired by their extraordinary deeds." Klaus Toepfer - UNEP's Executive Director 2001

The last Global 500 Roll of Honour awards were made in 2003. A successor system of UNEP awards called Champions of the Earth

Champions of the Earth

The United Nations Environment Programme established Champions of the Earth in 2004 as an annual awards programme to recognize outstanding environmental leaders at a policy level...

started in 2005.

Awardees

Since the inception of the award in 1987, over 719 individuals and organizations, in both the adult and youth categories, have been honoured with the Global 500 award. Among prominent winners are:

Wangari Maathai
Wangari Maathai
Wangari Muta Mary Jo Maathai was a Kenyan environmental and political activist. She was educated in the United States at Mount St. Scholastica and the University of Pittsburgh, as well as the University of Nairobi in Kenya...

, founder of the Green Belt Movement, a Kenyan grassroots environmental organisation. She later won the Nobel Peace prize.
Anil Agarwal
Anil Agarwal (environmentalist)
Anil Agarwal was an Indian journalist and environmentalist who founded the Centre for Science and Environment in 1980....

, the prominent environmentalist from India
Sir David Attenborough
David Attenborough
Sir David Frederick Attenborough OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS, FZS, FSA is a British broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years...

, producer of environmental television programmes
Dhrubajyoti Ghosh, prominent environmentalist/ecologist from India
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Gro Harlem Brundtland is a Norwegian Social democratic politician, diplomat, and physician, and an international leader in sustainable development and public health. She served three terms as Prime Minister of Norway , and has served as the Director General of the World Health Organization...

, former Prime Minister of Norway
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...

, former President of the United States. He later won the Nobel Peace prize.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Jacques-Yves Cousteau was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water...

, French marine explorer
Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall
Dame Jane Morris Goodall, DBE , is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 45-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National...

of the United Kingdom whose research on wild chimpanzees and olive baboons provided insight into the lives of non-human primates
Chico Mendes
Chico Mendes
Francisco Alves Mendes Filho, better known as Chico Mendes , was a Brazilian rubber tapper, trade union leader and environmentalist. He fought to preserve the Amazon rainforest, and advocated for the human rights of Brazilian peasants and indigenous peoples...

, the Brazilian rubber tapper who was murdered during his fight to save the Amazon rainforest
Amazon Rainforest
The Amazon Rainforest , also known in English as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America...
George Monbiot
George Monbiot
George Joshua Richard Monbiot is an English writer, known for his environmental and political activism. He lives in Machynlleth, Wales, writes a weekly column for The Guardian, and is the author of a number of books, including Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain and Bring on the...

, British journalist and researcher
Nikita Moiseyev
Nikita Moiseyev
Nikita Nikolayevich Moiseyev was a prominent Russian mathematician, full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR ....

a prominent Russian scientist, leading expert on consequences of nuclear war - "nuclear winter
Nuclear winter
Nuclear winter is a predicted climatic effect of nuclear war. It has been theorized that severely cold weather and reduced sunlight for a period of months or even years could be caused by detonating large numbers of nuclear weapons, especially over flammable targets such as cities, where large...

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Ken Saro-Wiwa
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Kenule "Ken" Beeson Saro Wiwa was a Nigerian author, television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goldman Environmental Prize...

, the environmental and human rights activist from Nigeria who was executed for leading the resistance of the Ogoni People against the pollution of their Delta homeland
Harada Masazumi, Japanese medical researcher heavily involved in the study of Minamata disease
Minamata disease
', sometimes referred to as , is a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning. Symptoms include ataxia, numbness in the hands and feet, general muscle weakness, narrowing of the field of vision and damage to hearing and speech. In extreme cases, insanity, paralysis, coma, and death...
the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF)
Gabriel Lewis-Charles, the prominent environmentalist from St Lucia

1987

Sekkou Zouha, Zhen-Lin Zhang, Bruno P. Zehnder, Marinos Yeroulanos, Worldwide Fund for Nature, World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts

World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts

The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts is a global association supporting the female-oriented and female-only Scouting organizations in 145 countries. It was established in 1928 and has its headquarters in London, England. It is the counterpart of the World Organization of the Scout...

, Paul Winter

Paul Winter

Paul Winter is an American saxophonist , and is a six-time Grammy Award nominee.- Biography :Paul Winter attended Altoona Area High School and graduated in 1957...

, Wildlife Clubs of Kenya, Joe Walulya-Mukasa, Aminata Wade, Lily Venizelos

Lily Venizelos

Lily Venizelos is the founder and president of MEDASSET . Ever since 1983 she has committed herself to protecting the sea turtles that occur in the Mediterranean.- History :...

, Tsitsi Vangili, UNEPCOM, George H. Tomlinson, Anitra Thorhaug, Peter S. Thacher, Maurice Strong

Maurice Strong

Maurice F. Strong, PC, CC, OM, FRSC is a Canadian entrepreneur and a former under-secretary general of the United Nations. Strong's first name is pronounced "Mor'ris" with the accent on the first syllable....

, Marion Stoddart, Stichting Werkgroep Behoud Tropisch Regenwoud, Chodchoy Sophonpanich, Ben Soans, Ully Sigar, Jill Sheppard, Philip Shabecoff

Philip Shabecoff

Philip Shabecoff was a reporter for the New York Times from 1959 to 1991, who has since specialized on environmentalism.- New York Times career :...

, Sahabat Alam, Omda Sabil, Margaret Robertson, Robert Redford

Robert Redford

Charles Robert Redford, Jr. , better known as Robert Redford, is an American actor, film director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival. He has received two Oscars: one in 1981 for directing Ordinary People, and one for Lifetime...

, Peter Raven, Gabor Racz, Carlos Pizani, Claiborne Pell

Claiborne Pell

Claiborne de Borda Pell was a United States Senator from Rhode Island, serving six terms from 1961 to 1997, and was best known as the sponsor of the Pell Grant, which provides financial aid funding to U.S. college students. A Democrat, he was that state's longest serving senator.-Early years:Pell...

, Bernard Lédéa Ouédraogo, The Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy is a US charitable environmental organization that works to preserve the plants, animals, and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive....

, National Geographic Society

National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society , headquartered in Washington, D.C. in the United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world. Its interests include geography, archaeology and natural science, the promotion of environmental and historical...

, Wlodzimierz Michajlow, Chico Mendes

Chico Mendes

Francisco Alves Mendes Filho, better known as Chico Mendes , was a Brazilian rubber tapper, trade union leader and environmentalist. He fought to preserve the Amazon rainforest, and advocated for the human rights of Brazilian peasants and indigenous peoples...

, Igor Mann, George Livanos

George Livanos

Georges P. Livanos was born in 1926 in New Orleans. His father was Peter Livanos. During the World War II, Georges Livanos served in the American army in Japan....

, Guy Lionnet

Guy Lionnet

Guy Lionnet was born in Mauritius and settled in Seychelles as a young professional while the country was still a British colony. He was Seychelles' first non-British Director of Agriculture and has contributed much to conservation in Seychelles as chairman of many conservation agencies including...

, Geoffrey Lean, Thomas Landgren, King Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation, Sophia Wambui Kiarie, Mugamir Eisa Khalifa, Mohamed Kassas

Mohamed Kassas

Mohamed Kassas is an Egyptian botanist and conservationist. He is professor emeritus for Botany at the University of Cairo.He studied at the University of Cairo, where he received a B.Sc. in 1944 and a M.Sc. in 1947, and at the University of Cambridge...

, Mr. G. V. and Mrs. K. Karlekar, Abdullahi Karani, Petar Jovanovic, Instituto Forestal Latinoamericano, Satu Huttunen, Soichiro Honda

Soichiro Honda

was a Japanese engineer and industrialist, and founder of Honda Motor Co., Ltd..Honda was born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan on November 17, 1906. He spent his early childhood helping his father, Gihei, a blacksmith, with his bicycle repair business. At the time his mother, Mika, was a weaver. At...

, Sir Edmund Hillary

Edmund Hillary

Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE , was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953 at the age of 33, he and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest – see Timeline of climbing Mount Everest...

, Rene Daniel Haller, Grupo de los Cien, Green Great Wall Group

Green Wall of China

The Green Wall of China, also known as the Green Great Wall or Great Green Wall , will be a series of human-planted forest strips in the People's Republic of China, designed to hold back the expansion of the Gobi Desert...

, Green Belt Movement

Green Belt Movement

The Green Belt Movement is an indigenous grassroots non-governmental organization based in Nairobi, Kenya that takes a holistic approach to development by focusing on environmental conservation, community development and capacity building...

(Wangari Maathai

Wangari Maathai

Wangari Muta Mary Jo Maathai was a Kenyan environmental and political activist. She was educated in the United States at Mount St. Scholastica and the University of Pittsburgh, as well as the University of Nairobi in Kenya...

), Juan Grau, Joseph Glascott, Grigory Galazii, Fundación para la Defensa de la Naturaleza, Fundación para la Defensa del Ambiente (FUNAM), Fundación Natura, Vladimir Flint, Environmental Management Journal, Diario El Comercio, Bedrettin Dalan

Bedrettin Dalan

Bedrettin Dalan is a Turkish engineer, former politician and the first mayor of Greater Istanbul. He is the founder of İSTEK Vakfı, a foundation for education and culture, and Yeditepe University in Istanbul.-Biography:...

, Luc Cuyvers, Herman Contraries Manfredi, College of African Wildlife Management

College of African Wildlife Management

The College of African Wildlife Management commonly known as Mweka College or just Mweka, is located near the Village of that name on the southern slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, above the city of Moshi, about 14 kilometres north of its centre.The locality also gives its name to the Mweka...

, Brian Clark, China Environmental News (CEN), Caribbean Conservation Association, Charles Caccia

Charles Caccia

Charles L. Caccia, PC was a Canadian politician.Caccia was a Liberal member of the Canadian House of Commons. He represented the Toronto riding of Davenport between 1968 and 2004.Caccia was born in 1930 in Milan, Italy...

, Gro Harlem Brundtland

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Gro Harlem Brundtland is a Norwegian Social democratic politician, diplomat, and physician, and an international leader in sustainable development and public health. She served three terms as Prime Minister of Norway , and has served as the Director General of the World Health Organization...

, Bob Brown

Bob Brown

Robert James Brown is an Australian senator, the inaugural Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens and was the first openly gay member of the Parliament of Australia...

, Lester R. Brown

Lester R. Brown

Lester Russel Brown is a United States environmental analyst, founder of the Worldwatch Institute, and founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute, a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, D.C...

, Francis Boateng, Chandiprasad Bhatt, Bellerive Foundation, Bamburi Portland Cement Ltd.

Bamburi Cement

Bamburi Cement is one of sub-saharan Africa's largest cement producers founded by Felix Mandl. The company is listed on the Nairobi Stock Exchange and its name is abbreviated to BCC....

, David Attenborough

David Attenborough

Sir David Frederick Attenborough OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS, FZS, FSA is a British broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years...

, Asociación Peruana para la Conservación de la Naturaleza, George W. Archibald, Arab Office for Youth and Environment (AOYE), Azaria Alon, Anil Agarwal

Anil Agarwal (environmentalist)

Anil Agarwal was an Indian journalist and environmentalist who founded the Centre for Science and Environment in 1980....

1988

Nicholas Zalaoras, World Organisation of the Scout Movement, World Assembly of Youth

World Assembly of Youth

The World Assembly of Youth is the coordinating body of national youth councils and organisations of over one-hundred national youth organizations from around the world. It was founded in 1949 in London, England....

(WAY),
David B. Wingate

David B. Wingate

Dr David Balcombe Wingate OBE, born October 11, 1935, is an ornithologist, naturalist and conservationist. He was born in Bermuda.In 1951 he helped Robert Cushman Murphy and Louis S...

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Gilbert F. White

Gilbert F. White

Gilbert Fowler White was a prominent American geographer, sometimes termed the "father of floodplain management" and the "leading environmental geographer of the 20th century"...

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Richard A. Vollenweider,
Turkish Association for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources,
Foune Traore,
Edward L. Towle,
Sione Latuila Tongilava,
Normita Thongtham,
Anna Teixeira,
Chamlong Srimuang

Chamlong Srimuang

Major General Chamlong Srimuang is a controversial Thai activist and former politician. A former general, he was a leader of the "Young Turks" military clique, founded and led the Phalang Dharma party, served for six years as governor of Bangkok, led the anti-military uprising of May 1992, and...

,
Irina Vasilevna Springuel,
James G. Speth,
Victoria Sotiriadou,
Song Hak Yun,
Vladimir Evgenievich Sokolov,
Otto Soemarwoto

Otto Soemarwoto

Prof. Otto Soemarwoto was a professor of plant physiology at Padjadjaran University and was director of the National Biology Institute from 1964 to 1972; he also served as director of the Institute of Ecology from 1972 until 1991...

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Shanyi Village,
Seychelles Islands Foundation

Seychelles Islands Foundation

Seychelles Islands Foundation manages and protects the World Heritage Sites of Aldabra and Vallee de Mai. The foundation was established as a public trust in 1979, with the President of Seychelles as patron...

,
Colette Serruya,
Pablo Sánchez

Pablo Sánchez

Pablo Andrés Sánchez is a retired Argentine footballer, who played as a midfielder. During his professional career, he was nicknamed Vitamina.-Playing career:...

,
Rauno Ruuhijarvi,
F. Sherwood Rowland,
Celso Roque,
Bruce Rich

Bruce Rich

Bruce Rich is an American writer and lawyer who has published extensively on the environment in developing countries and development in general. He is the author of a critique and history of the World Bank, and was awarded the United Nations Global 500 Award for environmental achievement for his...

,
Terence Evezard Reilly,
Valentin Rasputin

Valentin Rasputin

Valentin Grigoriyevich Rasputin is a Russian writer. He was born and lived much of his life in the Irkutsk Oblast in Eastern Siberia. Rasputin's works depict rootless urban characters and the fight for survival of centuries-old traditional rural ways of life...

,
Dina Iosifovna Protsenko,
Karl Partsch,
Park Ro-Kyeong,
Krishnakumar Panday,
María Teresa Ortiz,
Perez Olindo,
Shigeyuki Okajima,
Oficina Nacional de Evaluación de Recursos Naturales (ONERN),
Hideo Obara,
Natural Resources Defense Council

Natural Resources Defense Council

The Natural Resources Defense Council is a New York City-based, non-profit, non-partisan international environmental advocacy group, with offices in Washington DC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Beijing...

(NRDC),
Pisit Na Patalung,
Norman Myers

Norman Myers

Norman Myers BA PhD , is a British environmentalist specialisting in biodiversity. He is an influential figure among policy and institutional circles, although much of his more prominent work - such as on environmental refugees' - is widely viewed as lacking academic credibility...

,
T. Muller,
Bruno Messerli,
Abdelwaheb Marrakchi,
Marevivo,
Pierre Malychef,
Andrew and Kate Lipkis,
Shuangliang Li,
Aila Inkero Keto,
Shecou-Bah Kabba,
Peter Jones,
David Edward James,
INUIT Regional Conservation Strategy for the Arctic,
International Youth Federation (IYF),
Institute of Desert Research,
Victoria Husband,
Martin Wyatt Holdgate,
Catherine Hicks

Catherine Hicks

Catherine Mary Hicks is an American stage, film, television actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Annie Camden on the long-running television series 7th Heaven and as Karen Barclay in Child's Play.-Personal life:...

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Ivan L. Head,
Paul Harrison (pantheist)

Paul Harrison (pantheist)

Paul Harrison is an award-winning environmental writer, author of several books and reports on environment and development, and the founder and president of the World Pantheist Movement....

,
Miguel Grinberg,
Greenpeace International,
Murray Gell-Mann

Murray Gell-Mann

Murray Gell-Mann is an American physicist and linguist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles...

,
Theodor Geisel

Dr. Seuss

Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer, poet, and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books written under the pen names Dr. Seuss, Theo LeSieg and, in one case, Rosetta Stone....

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Maumoon Abdul Gayoom

Maumoon Abdul Gayoom

Maumoon Abdul Gayoom was President of the Maldives from 1978 to 2008. After serving as Minister of Transport, he was nominated as President by the Majlis of the Maldives and succeeded Ibrahim Nasir on November 11, 1978. He eventually became the longest-ruling head of government in Asia...

,
Franjo Gasparovic,
Garoua College of Wildlife,
Anwar Fazal

Anwar Fazal

Anwar Fazal is a grassroots environmental activist. He was trained at the University of Malaya in Economics and Education...

,
Joseph C. Farman,
Olfat Dessouky El-Sebaie,
Gerald Durrell

Gerald Durrell

Gerald "Gerry" Malcolm Durrell, OBE was a naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author and television presenter...

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Paljor Dorje,
Dominica Conservation Association,
Andreas Demetrion Demetropoulos,
Sheila Gwennifer Davis,
Czech National Union of Nature,
Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water...

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Conservation International

Conservation International

Conservation International is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, which seeks to ensure the health of humanity by protecting Earth's ecosystems and biodiversity. CI’s work focuses on six key initiatives that affect human well-being: climate, food security, freshwater...

,
Gabriel L. Charles,
Cetacean Society International,
Centre for Science and Environment

Centre for Science and Environment

Centre for Science and Environment is a not-for-profit public interest research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi, India. Established in 1980, CSE has been working on various environment-development issues in India, pushing for policy changes wherever required and better implementation...

,
Catherine Caufield,
Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...

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Mohammad Ilyas Burney,
Idelisa Bonnelly de Calventi,
Michel Batisse,
Mohamed Siad Barre,
Irma Allen,
Saeed Mohamed Al-Haffar,
Badria Abdullah Al-Awadi,
Adebayo Adeola,
Yasin El Hag Abdin,
Beyene Abadi

1989

Nancy Pearlman,
Julia Hailes

Julia Hailes

Julia Hailes , is an author who first came to prominence in 1988, when she wrote The Green Consumer Guide which sold a million copies worldwide. She subsequently wrote The New Green Consumer Guide published in 2007. She has authored or co-authored nine books...

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Friends of Trees of Living Beings,
Nijaz Abadzic,
Martin Abraham

Martin Abraham

Martin Abraham is a Czech footballer, who is currently playing for SV Wehen Wiesbaden.-Career:Abraham has previously played for AC Sparta Prague, FK Mladá Boleslav, Slovan Liberec, 1. FC Slovácko, Roubina Dolní Kounice and FC Zeman Brno...

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Ahmed Abdel Rahman Al-Agib,
Abdulbar Al-Gain,
Jassim Mohammad Al-Hassan,
Gaetano Allotta,
Amasachina Self-Help Association,
Amigos Da Natureza,
Les Amis de la Terre,
Australian Commission for the Future Ltd.,
Rita Barron,
Parbati Baruah,
Kamal H. Batanouny,
Purevjavyn Bayarsaikhan,
Alexander Bonilla,
Francois Bourliere,
Paul Adrian Brodeur,
Kenneth A. Brynaert,
Paul John Butler,
CARE-International

CARE (relief)

CARE is a broad-spectrum secular relief, humanitarian, and development non-governmental organization fighting global poverty. It is non-political, non-sectarian and operates annually in more than 70 countries across the globe.One of the organization’s primary focuses in its fight to eradicate...

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Chengdu Zoo,
Anthony Brian Cleaver,
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is the national government body for scientific research in Australia...

(CSIRO),
Whina Cooper

Whina Cooper

Dame Whina Cooper ONZ DBE , was born Hohewhina Te Wake, daughter of Heremia Te Wake of the Te Rarawa iwi, at Te Karaka, Hokianga,...

,
Michel Courtot,
Rogelio Cova,
Maitraye Devi,
Dogal Hayati Koruma Dernegi (DHKD),
Nikolai Nikolaevich Drozdov,
Milo Dunphy,
Educational Communications,
Anne Howland Ehrlich,
Paul R. Ehrlich

Paul R. Ehrlich

Paul Ralph Ehrlich is an American biologist and educator who is the Bing Professor of Population Studies in the department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University and president of Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology. By training he is an entomologist specializing in Lepidoptera , but...

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Fatma El-Gohary,
Anton Eliassen,
John Elkington

John Elkington

John Elkington is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable development. He is currently the Founding Partner & Executive Chairman of , a future-focused business working at the intersection of the sustainability, entrepreneurship and innovation movements...

,
Environmental Committee of Limassol

Limassol

Limassol is the second-largest city in Cyprus, with a population of 228,000 . It is the largest city in geographical size, and the biggest municipality on the island. The city is located on Akrotiri Bay, on the island's southern coast and it is the capital of Limassol District.Limassol is the...

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Environmental Education Leading Group of Chaozhou City

Chaozhou

Chaozhou is a city in eastern Guangdong province of the People's Republic of China. It borders Shantou to the south, Jieyang to the southwest, Meizhou to the northwest, the province of Fujian to the east, and the South China Sea to the southeast...

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Bu Eroh,
Barbara Y. E. Pyle

1990

Arthur H. Westing,
Mallika Wanigasundara,
Maria Aida Velasquez,
UNESCO Club of the University of Yaounde

University of Yaoundé

The University of Yaoundé is a leading university in Cameroon, located in Yaoundé.It was built with the help of France and opened in 1962 as the Federal University of Yaoundé, dropping the "Federal" in 1972 when the country was reorganized....

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The Una Emeralds Society,
Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990...

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Phra Ajahn Pongsak Tejadhammo,
Bassirou Tall,
Sayyid Shabib Bin Taimour,
Godofredo Stutzin,
Snake in the Grass Moving Theatre,
John Sinclair

John Sinclair (environmentalist)

John Sinclair received the Global 500 Roll of Honour award in 1990, and was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1993....

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Kantilal Jivan Shah,
Roque Sevilla,
Klaus Scharmer,
Chae Shik Rho,
Fiona Reynolds

Fiona Reynolds

Dame Fiona Claire Reynolds, DBE is the Director-General of the National Trust. She was awarded the DBE in the New Year Honours 2008 for "services to Heritage and conservation".-Early life:...

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Iosefatu Reti,
Raulino Reitz,
Population and Community Development Association

Population and Community Development Association

The Population and Community Development Association is a non-governmental organization in Thailand. Its goal is to reduce poverty through both development initiatives and family planning programs. Originally called the Community-Based Family Planning Service, it was founded by Mechai Viravaidya...

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Vasiliy Peskov

Vasiliy Mihaylovich Peskov

Vasiliy Mikhailovich Peskov , is a Russian writer, journalist, photographer, traveller and ecologist. He has worked in the Russian tabloid newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda since 1956. From 1975 until 1990 he conducted the TV programme "In the World of Animals" on Soviet TV.In 1964, he was awarded a...

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Paulinho Paiakan,
Gunavantrai Oza,
Michael A. N. Odula,
Mark Dokotela Ncube,
National Mobilization Programme,
Christine Milne

Christine Milne

Christine Anne Milne is an Australian Senator and deputy leader of the Australian Greens.Christine Milne first came to public attention for her role in opposing the building of the Wesley Vale pulp mill near Bass Strait in North Western Tasmania on the basis of its allegedly harmful environmental...

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Anna H. Merz,
David McTaggart

David McTaggart

David Fraser McTaggart was a Canadian-born environmentalist who played a central part in the foundation of Greenpeace International....

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Elizabeth May

Elizabeth May

Elizabeth Evans May, OC, MP is an American-born Canadian Member of Parliament, environmentalist, writer, activist, lawyer, and the leader of the Green Party of Canada. She was the executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada from 1989 to 2006. She became a Canadian citizen in 1978.May's...

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Jom Malai,
James Lovelock

James Lovelock

James Lovelock, CH, CBE, FRS is an independent scientist, environmentalist and futurologist who lives in Devon, England. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the biosphere is a self-regulating entity with the capacity to keep our planet healthy by controlling...

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Joseph T. Ling,
Dean Lindo

Dean Lindo

Dean Lindo is a Belizean lawyer and politician. He was one of the founding members of the United Democratic Party of Belize and was its leader from 1974 to 1979.Lindo is a member of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn....

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Sietz A. Leeflang,
Philippe Lebreton,
Laurel Springs School

Laurel Springs School

Laurel Springs School is a WASC-accredited K–12 distance learning school in Ojai, California, United States. Laurel Springs School offers personalized resources, customizable curricula, individualized teacher services, college advising and other services to families attending public and private...

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Winfried Lang,
Roberto M. Klein,
Kitakyushu City,
Philip Rivogbe Kio,
Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad,
Milton M. Kaufmann,
Kazi Zaker Hussain,
Riel Huaorani,
High Country News

High Country News

High Country News is a twice-monthly magazine published in Paonia, Colorado that primarily focuses on public policy, environmental issues, and culture in the Western United States. Founded in 1970 in Wyoming by rancher and environmentalist, Tom Bell, High Country News is a non-profit 501 corporation...

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Heheng Village

Heheng

Heheng is a village in Jiangyan city, China. It was awarded Global 500 Roll of Honour by the United Nations Environment Programme in 1990 because of its success in protecting the environment while increasing the grain yield, and its wide use of marsh biogas ponds.-External...

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Mish Hashimoto,
Niki Goulandris

Niki Goulandris

Niki Goulandris is a Greek philanthropist and an accomplished botanical painter.She is currently vice-president of the Goulandris Natural History Museum and Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art, former deputy minister for Social Services , honorary deputy president of Hellenic Radio and Television ,...

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Michael Glantz,
Dhrubajyoti Ghosh,
Kathryn S. Fuller

Kathryn S. Fuller

Kathryn S. Fuller is the Chair of the non-profit charity, the Ford Foundation, an occupation she has held since May, 2004.Fuller graduated from Pembroke College in Providence, RI in 1968, and from the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, TX in 1976...

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Ivan Fonseca,
José Jaime Flota,
Fabio Jose Feldmann,
Jairo Escobar,
Hussain Muhammad Ershad,
Mark Edwards,
Ecology Law Quarterly,
Rene Dumont

René Dumont

René Dumont was a French engineer in agronomy, a sociologist, and an environmental politician.He was born in Cambrai, Nord, in the north of France. His father was a professor in agriculture and his grandfather was a farmer. He graduated from the INA P-G, as an engineer in agronomy...

,
Barbara d'Achille,
Club des Amis de la Nature,
Erlangen

Erlangen

Erlangen is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria, Germany. It is located at the confluence of the river Regnitz and its large tributary, the Untere Schwabach.Erlangen has more than 100,000 inhabitants....

,
Chatichai Choonhaven,
Chongololo And Conservation Clubs of Zambia,
Children's Alliance for the Protection of the Environment,
Reid A. Bryson,
Bombay Natural History Society

Bombay Natural History Society

The Bombay Natural History Society, founded on 15 September 1883, is one of the largest non-governmental organizations in India engaged in conservation and biodiversity research. It supports many research efforts through grants, and publishes the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. Many...

,
Enrique Beltran

Enrique Beltrán

Enrique Beltrán Castillo was one of Mexico's first conservationists. A student of Alfonso Herrera at the UNAM in the 1920s, Beltrán was appointed by Herrera "to head two marine commissions , that were established to study and improve the use of Mexico's coastal fisheries."In 1932, Beltrán received...

,
David James Bellamy,
Jean M. Belanger,
Adel Awad,
Arthur Beresford Archer,
Roula Angelakis-Malakis,
Mary Zanoni Allegretti,
Alcoa of Australia Limited

Alcoa

Alcoa Inc. is the world's third largest producer of aluminum, behind Rio Tinto Alcan and Rusal. From its operational headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Alcoa conducts operations in 31 countries...

,
Michael Alexandrovitch Zablotsky,
Ram Prit Yadav,
Michael Werikhe

Michael Werikhe

Michael Werikhe , also known as “the Rhino Man” was a Kenyan conservationist. He became famous through his long fundraising walks in East Africa and overseas. He started his campaign after learning how drastically Black Rhinos had decreased in Africa. Wherever he walked, his arrival was greeted...

,
David Alexander Weir,
Robert T. Watson,
Stephen S. Wanje,
Valentin V. Voloshin,
Ven Kirantidiye Pannasekera

Ven Kirantidiye Pannasekera

Ven Kirantidiye Pannasekera was a pioneer in environmental conservation activism starting from 1981.He started an organization named Friends of Nature to help protect the Sinharaja Forest of Sri Lanka. He was able to form the "Sri Lanka Environmental Congress" by gathering all the scattered...

,
Vlassis Vellopoulos,
Josef Velek

Josef Velek

Josef Velek, ing. was a Czechoslovak journalist, author and environmentalist.-Biography:Velek was born November 30, 1939 in Klínec, Czech Republic....

,
Krisna Tamrakar,
Robert Swan

Robert Swan

Robert Charles Swan, OBE, FRGS is the first person to walk to both Poles.He was born on 28 July 1956 in Durham, England and attended Aysgarth School and then Sedbergh School before completing a BA degree in Ancient History at St Chad's College, Durham University. He is currently an advocate for...

,
David T. Suzuki,
Thodoros Skoulikidis,
Andrew Augustus Simmons,
Sawroop Krishna Sharma,
Leonard Schwartz,
Pierre Schram,
Richard Sandbrook,
Jose Manuel Salazar,
Felix Augustine Ryan,
Felix Yakovlevich Rovinsky,
Basil Allen Rossi,
Anita Roddick

Anita Roddick

Dame Anita Roddick, DBE was a British businesswoman, human rights activist and environmental campaigner, best known as the founder of The Body Shop, a cosmetics company producing and retailing beauty products that shaped ethical consumerism...

,
Robert Richter,
G. Radhamohan,
Pokret Gorana Srbije,
Philippine Foundation of Rural Broadcasters,
Pemasky - Kuna Wildlands Project,
David William Pearce,
Chang-Keun Park,
Ontario Public Interest Research Group

Ontario Public Interest Research Group

Ontario Public Interest Research Group is a campus-based student activist non-profit organization based in Ontario, Canada.OPIRG is broken into eleven distinct chapters, and serves as a hub organization, allowing the organizing committees of the local chapters to exchange ideas, better educate...

,
Joseph R. O'Neal,
Nyakima Gitiri Women's Group,
Pamuchigere Nembire,
Brian Morton,
Raúl Montenegro

Raúl Montenegro

Raúl Montenegro is an Argentine biologist, environmentalist and activist. He has worked as a professor at the University of Córdoba , and at several other educational institutions. In 1982, he founded FUNAM, a grassroots environmental organization, and became its president in 1995...

,
Edgardo Mondolfi,
Mario J. Molina

Mario J. Molina

Mario José Molina-Pasquel Henríquez is a Mexican chemist and one of the most prominent precursors to the discovering of the Antarctic ozone hole. He was a co-recipient Mario José Molina-Pasquel Henríquez (born March 19, 1943 in Mexico City) is a Mexican chemist and one of the most prominent...

,
Harekala Moideen,
Daniel arap Moi

Daniel arap Moi

Daniel Toroitich arap Moi was the President of Kenya from 1978 until 2002.Daniel arap Moi is popularly known to Kenyans as 'Nyayo', a Swahili word for 'footsteps'...

,
Carlos Minc Baumfeld,
Margaret Mee

Margaret Mee

Margaret Ursula Mee, MBE was a British botanical artist who specialized in plants from the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. She was also one of the first environmentalists to draw attention to the impact of large-scale mining and deforestation on the Amazon Basin.-Early life:Margaret Ursula Brown was...

,
Donald McMichael,
Uri Marinov,
Nicos Margaris,
Pierre Gustave Lequeux, Leichtmetallgesellschaft Mbh (LMG),
Hugh Lamprey

Hugh Lamprey

Hugh Lamprey was a British ecologist and bush pilot.He became famous for his UN report on desertification in the African Sahel region, where he stated that "the desert southern boundary has shifted south by an average of 90 to 100 kilometres in the last 17 years"...

,
Alphonse Lafontaine,
Sook Pyo Kwon,
Shomb Sultan Khan,
Luis Sumar Kalinowski,
Roger James

Roger James

Roger James is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.James debuted during Port Adelaide's inauguaral season in the AFL and made a name for himself as a tough midfielder...

,
Hiroyuki Ishi,
Alexander Sergeevich Isaev,
Institute of Tropical Forestry,
Sidney Holt

Sidney Holt

Sidney J. Holt is an important founder of fisheries science. He is best known for the book On the Dynamics of Exploited Fish Populations which he published with Ray Beverton in 1957. The book is a cornerstone of modern fisheries science and remains much used today. Holt served with the FAO in 1953...

,
David L. Holm,
Andrew D. Holleman,
Thilo Walter Hoffman,
Gome Gnohite Hilaire,
Hetian County Government,
Richard A. Hellman,
John Fagan Handley,
Youssef Halim,
Edgardo Gómez,
Germán García-Duran,
Joaquín Fonseca,
Florence Fisher,
Gert Roland Fischer

1991

Xiao Zhang Zhuang Village,
Jun Ui,
Crispin Tickell

Crispin Tickell

Sir Crispin Tickell, GCMG, KCVO, MA , DSc , FRSGS , FRIBA , FZS, FRI , FCIWEM is a British diplomat, environmentalist, and academic.-Background:...

,
Starkist Seafood Company,
Tiahoga Ruge,
Eduardo Del Rio (Rius),
Yung-Hee Rho,
M. K. Ranjitsinh,
Maritza Pulido-Santana,
Jonathon Porritt

Jonathon Porritt

Jonathon Espie Porritt, CBE, is an English environmentalist and writer. Porritt appears frequently in the media, writing in magazines, newspapers and books, and appearing on radio and television regularly.-Early life and family background:...

,
Nicholas Polunin,
Roger Payne

Roger Payne

Roger Searle Payne is a biologist and environmentalist famous for the 1967 discovery of Whale song among Humpback whales. Payne later became an important figure in the worldwide campaign to end commercial whaling.Payne studied at Harvard University and Cornell...

,
Geoffrey Palmer,
Adama Ouedraogo,
Vereniging Ode, Organisatie Voor,
Nyamuniwa Nyamunda,
Seub Nakhasathien

Seub Nakhasathien

Seub Nakhasathien was a Thai conservationist who was well-known for his efforts to conserve and protect the nature in Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary and Chiew Larn.-Early life:...

,
Ahmad Abu Musa,
Claude Michel

Claude Michel

Claude Michel , known as Clodion, was a French sculptor in the Rococo style. He was born in Nancy. Here and probably in Lille he spent the earlier years of his life. In 1755 he came to Paris and entered the workshop of Lambert Sigisbert Adam, his maternal uncle, a clever sculptor...

,
Norman James Melrose,
Peter Matthiessen

Peter Matthiessen

Peter Matthiessen is a two-time National Book Award-winning American novelist and non-fiction writer, as well as an environmental activist...

,
Malayan Nature Society,
Robert Glenn Ketchum

Robert Glenn Ketchum

Robert Glenn Ketchum is a landscape and nature photographer whose work has a strong environmental advocacy message.-Life and career:...

,
Yolanda Kakabadse

Yolanda Kakabadse

Yolanda Kakabadse Navarro is a conservationist from Ecuador.After studies in Educational psychology at the Catholic University of Quito, she became involved in environmental issues. She was a founder of the Fundación Natura in Quito and was its executive director from 1979 to 1990. At the Rio...

,
Gochoogin Jamts,
Hoogovens Aluminium,
Donald James Henry,
Parviez Hassan,
Julian Gonsalves

Julian Gonsalves

Julian Gonsalves is an Indian environmentalist.Gonslaves is originally from the region of Goa, in western India and he received a PhD in sustainable agriculture from the Cornell University....

,
Bjorn Olov Gillberg,
I. T. Frolov,
Walter Atilio Fontana,
Alegría Fonseca Barrera,
Fleurir Maurice Committee M.G.T.O.,
Philip Martin Fearnside,
Malin Falkenmark,
Environment Telephone of Vereniging,
Herbert Jose de Souza,
Keith Frederick Corbett,
Conservation Council of New Brunswick,
Chul-Whan Cha,
Lynton Keith Caldwell,
Jim Brandenburg

Jim Brandenburg

Jim Brandenburg is an environmentalist and nature photographer and filmmaker based near Ely, Minnesota. His career includes over 10 years as a newspaper photojournalist, over 30 years as a contract photographer for the National Geographic Society, and commissions from such groups as the United...

,
Gertrude Duby Blom,
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands,
BAUM

Baum

Baum is a German surname meaning "tree" and may refer to:* Antoine Baumé, , French chemist* Bernie Baum, American song writer* Eric Baum, American computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher...

,
Biplab Bhushan Basu,
Joaquín Araujo,
Murlidhar,
Mohamed Zahir

Mohamed Zahir

Major General Mohamed Zahir is the former Chief of Defence Force of the Maldives National Defence Force of the Republic of Maldives...

, Vivian John Wilson, Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, name also written Davi Kobenawä Yanomamö is a shaman and Portuguese-speaking spokesperson of the Yanomami Indians in Brazil...

1992

Abdullatif K. Youssef,
Women of Mupata Village,
Erna Witoelar,
Pravit Tomyavit,
The Xian Eco-Animal Breeding Farm,
Dutch Cyclists Union (Fietsersbondenfb),
Bjoern Strandli,
Sri Lanka Journalists Forum,
Southern Women against Toxics,
Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel

Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel

The Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel , or SPNI, is an Israeli non-profit environmental organization working to preserve plants, animals, and natural environments that represent bio-diversity, by protecting the lands and waters needed for their survival, and is Israel's oldest and...

,
Eung-Bai Shin,
Daphne Sheldrick

Daphne Sheldrick

Dame Daphne Sheldrick, DBE is a Kenyan author, conservationist and expert in animal husbandry, particularly the raising and reintegrating of orphaned elephants into the wild for over 30 years....

,
Shanglijia Village,
Mukhtar Shakhanov,
Anesia do Amaral Schmidt,
Taisitiroo Satoo,
M. A. Partha Sarathy,
Saenaua Women's Association,
V. I. Joy Royes,
Charlotte Rajeriarison,
Vo Quy

Vo Quy

Dr. Võ Quý is a Vietnamese zoologist and professor at the Vietnam National University, Hanoi. He specialises in studying birds and was a recipient of the 2003 Blue Planet Prize....

,
Quercus,
Suryo Wardhoyo Prawiroatmodjo,
Participatory Development Forum (PDF),
Paasban / Family Planning Association

Family Planning Association

FPA is a UK registered charity working to enable people to make informed choices about sex and to enjoy sexual health. It is the national affiliate for the International Planned Parenthood Federation in the United Kingdom. It celebrated its 80th anniversary in 2010...

,
NIKA - Magazine of the Czech Union for Nature and Conservation,
Nigerian Conservation Foundation

Nigerian Conservation Foundation

The Nigerian Conservation Foundation is a prominent environmental non-governmental organization which works to preserve the natural resources and biodiversity of Nigeria. The Foundation was founded in 1980 and has worked since then on a number of resource management and conservation projects...

,
Josip Movčan

Josip Movcan

Josip Movčan, B.Sc. / Forestry Mr. Movčan studied forestry at the University of Sopron in Hungary, Department of Forestry. Later he graduated at the Zagreb University, Department of Forestry...

,
Hasna J. Moudud,
Veer Bhadra Mishra

Veer Bhadra Mishra

Veer Bhadra Mishra is the founding president of the Sankat Mochan Foundation.He is a former professor of Hydraulic engineering and former Head of the Civil Engineering Department at the ITBHU Varanasi. He is also the Mahant of the Sankat Mochan Hanuman temple, Varanasi at Varanasi founded by...

,
Shirley McGreal,
Mary McGillicuddy-Sheehy,
Colleen McCrory

Colleen McCrory

Colleen McCrory was a Canadian environmental activist.She was born in New Denver, British Columbia. McCrory founded the Valhalla Wilderness Society, a British Columbia environmental group, in 1975....

,
J. Michael McCloskey,
Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA),
Gladys Khangwayini Mashinini,
Torsten Malmberg,
Susan Mahon,
Mateo J. Magarinos De Mello,
Thomas E. Lovejoy,
U. B. Lindstrom,
Oliver Henry Knowles,
Ashok Khosla / Development Alternatives,
Hayrettin Karaca,
Zhang Jia-Shun,
Kazuo Hishida,
Jorge Ignacio Hernández Camacho,
Edwige Guillon,
Legeia González L.,
Golden Hope Plantations Berhad,
Herbert Girardet

Herbert Girardet

Herbert Girardet is co-founder of the World Future Council. His ten books include Earthrise , The Gaia Atlas of Cities , Creating Sustainable Cities , Cities, People, Planet , Shaping our Future , and Surviving the Century...

,
Perin Savakshaw Fitter,
Ranjen Lalith Fernando,
Salwa Osman Ebeid,
Earthwatch Radio, Francesco di Castri, Tuenjai Deetes

Tuenjai Deetes

Tuenjai Deetes received the Global 500 Roll of Honour in 1992, and was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1994. Deetes has been working with the Thai hill tribes since the early 1970s. She co-founded the Hill Area Development Foundation in 1986.-References:...

, Rose Cotta, CODDEFFAGOLF, Maria V. Cherkasova, Jorge Cappato, Robert Peter Burton, Michael Bloomfield, George Benneh, Charley Barretto, Brigitte Bardot

Brigitte Bardot

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot is a French former fashion model, actress, singer and animal rights activist. She was one of the best-known sex-symbols of the 1960s.In her early life, Bardot was an aspiring ballet dancer...

, Baha'i Vocational Institute For Women, Association Nationale des Pionniers de Reboisement, Pablo Amaringo

Pablo Amaringo

Pablo Cesar Amaringo was an acclaimed Peruvian artist, renowned for his intricate, colourful depictions of his visions from drinking the entheogenic plant brew, ayahuasca. He was first brought to the West's attention by Dennis McKenna and Luis Eduardo Luna, who met Pablo in Pucallpa while...

, Miguel Alvarez del Toro

Miguel Alvarez del Toro

Miguel Carlos Francisco Alvarez del Toro was a Mexican Biologist who worked in the state of Chiapas as head of the Institute of Natural History. He married Clementina Pérez.He was the first Mexican conservationist....

, Roland Albignac, Ahmed Abdel-Wahab Abdel-Gawaad, Dharman Wickremeratne

1993

Youth Nature Conservationist Centre - WOLVES,
Aika Tsubota,
Macon L. Terry,
Nafisa Shah

Nafisa Shah

Dr. Nafisa Shah is a Member of National Assembly from Pakistan Peoples Party , Chair of the National Commission for Human Development , General Secretary of the and a member of parliamentary standing committees on Finance, Minorities, Economic Affairs and Statistics. She frequently writes for...

,
Nyahode Union Learning Centre,
Inter College,
Chandra Degia and Jimmy Brown,
Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Severn Cullis-Suzuki is a Canadian environmental activist, speaker, television host and author. She has spoken around the world about environmental issues, urging listeners to define their values, act with the future in mind, and take individual responsibility.-Biography:Cullis-Suzuki was born and...

,
ARCHIPEL,
Time Magazine,
The Tengtou Village,
Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva , is a philosopher, environmental activist, and eco feminist. Shiva, currently based in Delhi, has authored more than 20 books and over 500 papers in leading scientific and technical journals. She was trained as a physicist and received her Ph.D...

,
Phornthep Phornprapha,
Esther Peter-Davis,
Otil a Beluad, Nancy Lee Nash, Theodore Monod

Théodore Monod

Théodore André Monod was a French naturalist, explorer, and humanist scholar.-Exploration:...

, M. C. Mehta,
Jesús Estudillo López, Susan Lakhan, Valery P. Kukhar,
Ian Bruce Carrick Kiernan,
Calestous Juma

Calestous Juma

Calestous Juma is an internationally recognized authority in the application of science and technology to sustainable development worldwide. He is Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, Technology and Globalization Project at Harvard Kennedy School...

,
Akbar Sara Hussain, Jeff Gibbs, Birute Galdikas

Birute Galdikas

Birutė Marija Filomena Galdikas, OC , is a primatologist, conservationist, ethologist, and author of several books relating to the endangered orangutan, particularly the Bornean orangutan. Well known in the field of modern primatology, Galdikas is recognized as a leading authority on orangutans...

, Hafidi My El-Mehdi,
Freddy Ehlers, Ecover

Ecover

Ecover is a Belgium based company manufacturing and internationally trading domestic ecological cleaning products, of which it is the world's most well-known brand....

, Tsevegyn Davaajamts, CHASKI Children's Magazine,
Luis Bustamante, Tom Burke

Tom Burke (environmentalist)

Tom Burke is an Environmental Policy Adviser to Rio Tinto and a Visiting Professor at Imperial and University Colleges, London. He is Chairman of the Editorial Board of ENDS Magazine....

, Roselie Bertell, Mark Attwater, Ndyakira Ntamuhirra Amooti

1994

The Municipal Ecologic Brigade, Kids for Coral, Omar Castillo Gallegos, Fundación Ecológica Arcoiris, CenterStage Children's Theatre Troupe, Zulekha Ali,
Zhongwei Gusha Forestry Farm, Edgar Wayburn

Edgar Wayburn

Edgar Wayburn was an environmentalist who was elected president of the Sierra Club five times in the 1960s. One of America's legendary wilderness champions, Dr...

, Leonie Vejjajiva, Bernadette Vallely, Brenda and Robert Vale, The Chosun Ilbo

The Chosun Ilbo

The Chosun Ilbo is one of the major newspapers in South Korea. With a daily circulation of over 2,200,000, the Chosun Ilbo has undertaken annual inspections since Audit Bureau of Circulations was established in 1993...

, Josef Tamir, Richard Evans Schultes

Richard Evans Schultes

Richard Evans Schultes may be considered the father of modern ethnobotany, for his studies of indigenous peoples' uses of plants, including especially entheogenic or hallucinogenic plants , for his lifelong collaborations with chemists, and...

, Nicanor Perlas

Nicanor Perlas

Nicanor Jesus "Nicky"/"Nick" Pineda Perlas, III is a Filipino activist and a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award in 2003. He was a Philippine presidential aspirant for the 2010 presidential elections but lost to Liberal Party's President Benigno C...

, Gonzalo Palomino, Garth Owen-Smith

Garth Owen-Smith

Garth Owen-Smith is a Namibian environmentalist. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1993, jointly with Margaret Jacobsohn, for their efforts on conservation of wildlife in Namibia, where illegal hunting was threatening species such as elephants and black rhinos.- References :...

and Margaret Jacobsohn

Margaret Jacobsohn

Margaret Jacobsohn is a Namibian environmentalist. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1993, jointly with Garth Owen-Smith, for their efforts on conservation of wildlife in rural Namibia.She was awarded the Global 500 Roll of Honour in 1994....

, Nikita Nikolaevich Moiseyev

Nikita Moiseyev

Nikita Nikolayevich Moiseyev was a prominent Russian mathematician, full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR ....

, Lillehammer Olympic Organizing Committee and Project for an Environment-Friendly Olympics

1994 Winter Olympics

The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event celebrated from 12 to 27 February 1994 in and around Lillehammer, Norway. Lillehammer failed to win the bid for the 1992 event. Lillehammer was awarded the games in 1988, after having beat...

, Marie-Paul Labey, Osamu Kobayashi, Joseph Makabuza Kabirizi, Roefie Hueting

Roefie Hueting

Roefie Hueting is a Dutch economist , pianist and leader of the Down Town Jazz Band.He has analyzed the environment from the neoclassical point of view of scarcity and developed the concept of Sustainable National Income...

, John Houghton

John T. Houghton

As co-chair of the IPCC, he defends the IPCC process, in particular against charges of failure to consider non-CO2 explanations of climate change. In evidence to, the Select Committee on Science and Technology in 2000 he said:...

, Gustav Harmer, Masazumi Harada

Masazumi Harada

is a Japanese doctor and medical researcher. His most famous work has been into the effects of Minamata disease, a type of severe mercury poisoning that occurred in the city of Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture during the 1950s and 1960s...

, Molly R. Gaskin, Fundación Peruana para la Conservación de la Naturaleza, Paul Ekins

Paul Ekins

Paul Ekins is a prominent British academic in the field of sustainable economics. He is a former member of the Green Party.-Political career:...

, Karen Eckert, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh is the husband of Elizabeth II. He is the United Kingdom's longest-serving consort and the oldest serving spouse of a reigning British monarch....

, The Ghandruk Conservation and Development Committee, Yul Choi

Yul Choi

Yul Choi is a South Korean activist, environmentalist and organizer. He chaired the Korean Anti-Pollution Movement from 1988, and led the Korean Federation for Environmental Movement from 1993. He was awarded the Global 500 Roll of Honour in 1994 and the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1995...

, Jesus Arias Chavez, Raffi Cavoukian, José Pedro Castro, Sama Siama Banya, Seth Sunday Ajayi, Lorraine Adams

Lorraine Adams

Lorraine Adams is an American journalist, and novelist.She was a staff writer for the Washington Post, and the Dallas Morning News.She lives in Washington, D.C.-Awards:* 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship* 2006 VCU First Novelist Award...

1995

Young Pioneers Environmental Monitoring Station of Daxinglu Primary School, Second Creek Environment Project, Humphrey Bheki Mvula, Green Machine Nature Conservation Club, Robert D. Dyer, Association for the Protection of the Environment, Alwan-Al-Teif, Yokkaichi und Bürgermeister Kanshi Kato, Kyung-Sun Won, Ron G. Watkins, Trees for Africa, Television Trust for the Environment

Television Trust for the Environment

Television Trust for the Environment is an independent, international not-for-profit organisation founded 27 years ago by Central Television, UNEP and WWF...

(TVE), Safina Z. Siddiqi, George B. Schaller, Serigne Samb, Queen Noor of Jordan, Ricardo A. Navarro, George Monbiot

George Monbiot

George Joshua Richard Monbiot is an English writer, known for his environmental and political activism. He lives in Machynlleth, Wales, writes a weekly column for The Guardian, and is the author of a number of books, including Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain and Bring on the...

, Anna and Livio Michelini, Tamas Lantos, M. Krishnan, Janis and Bob Jones, Robert John Filmer, Bernardo P. Ferraz, Marti Boada, The Bangkok Post, Father Balemans

1996

Fatih Yilmaz

Fatih Yılmaz is a Turkish football player, who last played for Eintracht Braunschweig.-Career:Yilmaz began his career in his hometown for VfB Hannover-Wülfel and joined 2005 in the youthteam of Hannover 96. He played for Hannover 96 between 2007 and signed than in summer of this year with...

,
Wahn Lee,
A High School Student Group of Junior Journalists for Environment,
Herederos del Planeta,
Nergis Yazgan,
Tatyana Fyodorovna Stepanenko,
Ken Saro-Wiwa

Ken Saro-Wiwa

Kenule "Ken" Beeson Saro Wiwa was a Nigerian author, television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goldman Environmental Prize...

,
Environment 2000 Foundation,
Sonia Regina de Brito Pereira,
Bahuddin Hi Pabbite,
Akio Morishima,
Danuse Kvasnickova,
Veit Koester,
Rampa and Tom Hormel,
Carlos Roberto Hasbun,
Tansu Gurpinar,
Garanti Bank T.A.S.

Garanti Bank

Garanti Bank is the second largest-private bank in Turkey with US$90 billion in assets as of December 31, 2010. On November 2nd, 2010 BBVA , Spain's second largest bank, acquired 24.9% stake in Garanti Bank for $5.8 billion. Garanti provides retail, commercial, corporate and private banking...

,
Miguel A. Reynal,
Earth Love Fund,
Paul Josef Crutzen,
Lalita Balakrishnan

1997

Young Leaders, Health Messengers Association, Carolina Garcia Travesi, Oposa Group, Xialu Township, Jan C. Van der Leun, Ube City, Swire Group

Swire Group

The Swire Group is a transnational corporation headquartered in the Swire House in the City of Westminster, London, England. It controls a range of wholly owned businesses, including deep-sea shipping, cold storage, road transport, and agricultural activities. The current chairman is James...

, The Nation (Thailand)

The Nation (Thailand)

The Nation is a broadsheet, English-language daily newspaper founded in 1971 and published in Bangkok, Thailand, and is owned by the Nation Multimedia Group.The Nation is a member of the Asia News Network...

, Kook-Hyun Moon, Theo Manuel,
Sang-Hyun Kim

Sang-Hyun Kim

Sang-Hyun Kim is a former boxer from South Korea.In 1978, he won the Orient and Pacific Boxing Federation light welterweight title....

,
Edward Solon Hagedorn,
Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall

Dame Jane Morris Goodall, DBE , is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 45-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National...

,
Zsuzsa Foltanyi,
Lilian Corra,
Ki-Chel Choi,
Joon-Yuep Cha,
Centro Salvadoreño de Tecnología Apropiada,
BBC World Service Education Department

BBC World Service

The BBC World Service is the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasting in 27 languages to many parts of the world via analogue and digital shortwave, internet streaming and podcasting, satellite, FM and MW relays...

,
Siti Aminah, Jon Tinker

1998

Red Scarf Environmental Protection Action Group,
Akima Paul, Leave It To Us Junior Board, Hellenic Marine Environment Protection,
Ecole Propre/Ecole Verte, P. B. K. L. Agyirey-Kwakye,
Yiannakis D. Potamitis, Œuvre de Bienfaisance pour Haiti (OBH),
Zygfryd Nowak, Don Merton

Don Merton

Donald Merton, QSM was a New Zealand conservationist best known for saving the black robin from extinction. He also discovered the lek breeding system of the kakapo....

, Anne Mearns, Yongshun Ma, Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov, Feodor Konyukhov, Jae-Bum Kim, Greening Australia

Greening Australia

Greening Australia is an Australian environmental organisation, founded in 1982, the International Year of the Tree, to protect, restore and conserve Australia's native vegetation...

, Yasuo Goto, Sylvia Earle

Sylvia Earle

Sylvia Alice Earle is an American oceanographer. She was chief scientist for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from 1990–1992. She is a National Geographic explorer-in-residence, sometimes called "Her Deepness" or "The Sturgeon General".-Education and career:Earle received a...

, Valeriy Demyanenko, Melih Boydak, Stephen O. Andersen, Mike Anane, Aga Akbar

1999

Water Partnership Project, Eastville Primary School & John Graham Primary School, Kruti Parekh, Junior Eco-Club, Toyota, Masayuki Tanaka

Masayuki Tanaka

is a Japanese vocalist. He was born in Imari, Saga Prefecture. He is one of the two original vocalists of the band , known for their anime soundtracks such as where Tanaka provided the vocals in the chorus of its opening theme...

, Verna Simpson, Russian Association of the Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON), Pennsylvania Senior Environment Corps (PaSEC), Makoto Numata, Capt. C. P. Krishnan Nair

C. P. Krishnan Nair

Capt. Chittarath Poovakkatt Krishnan Nair is an Indian businessman, who founded Leela Lace Ltd., a textile company in 1957 and later became the Founder-Chairman of the Leela Group of Hotels, established in 1986...

, Sampson Osew Larbi, Global Environmental Action, Kenneth L. Chamberlain, Vilmar Sidnei Demamam Berna, All-China Women's Federation

All-China Women's Federation

The All-China Women's Federation is an organization of women established in China in March 1949. It was constructed as a mass organization supported by the Communist Party of China, and based on Marxist theory...

, Bebe Arcifa Khan-Ajodha

2000

Globetree Foundation, BUNDjugend

BUNDjugend

BUNDjugend is the youth organisation of the Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland . As an environmental youth organization BUNDjugend is fighting for the protection of nature and environment. BUNDjugend was founded in 1984 and is divided into different state organizations...

, Conservation Volunteers Australia

Conservation Volunteers Australia

Conservation Volunteers Australia is an Australian not-for-profit conservation organisation that attracts and coordinates volunteers for environmental restoration projects.- History :...

, Carlos de Prada, Mei Ng, Reuben Americo Marti, Las Pinas, Robert M. Hager, Fuji Xerox Australia

Fuji Xerox

is a joint venture partnership between the Japanese photographic firm Fuji Photo Film Co. and the American document management company Xerox to develop, produce and sell xerographic and document-related products and services in the Asia-Pacific region...

, Chief Larry Philip Fontaine, Chumbe Island Coral Park Ltd (CHICOP)

Chumbe Island

Chumbe Island is a small privately-owned island a few kilometres off of the main island of Zanzibar, known for its ecological innovation and exceptional coral reefs....

, Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage Trust, Asbjorn Bjorgvinsson, Anyamathanha Nepabunna Community

2001

Yayasan Anak Warisan Alam (YAWA, Malasia), Jean-Dominic Lévesque-René (Canada), Khohlooa, Matholoana and Lesotho Herdboys, Jose Marti Pioneer Organization

José Martí Pioneer Organization

Cuba's José Martí Pioneer Organization was established in 1961, created as a replacement for the banned Asociación de Scouts de Cuba.The organization gets its name from Cuban writer and nationalist hero José Martí....

, Evergreen Club of Ghana, Arunee Dejdamrongsakkul (Thailand), Triciclo (Italy), Sydney Olympic Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games and the Olympic Coordinating Authority

2000 Summer Olympics

The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

, Oscar Ravera (Italy), Jung Hee Park (Republic of Korea), Sven-Olof Lindblad (Switzerland), Loren Legarda

Loren Legarda

Loren Legarda is a Filipino broadcast journalist, environmentalist, and politician of Visayan ancestry, notable as the only female to top two senatorial elections . During the 2004 Philippine general election, she ran for the position of Vice-President as an Independent with Fernando Poe, Jr...

, Jiro Kondo

Jiro Kondo

is a Japanese Egyptologist, and has worked in tombs KVA and KV22 in the Valley of the Kings and with ARTP. He is a Professor of Archaeology at Waseda University, Tokyo.-References:...

, Chan Eng Heng

Chan Eng Heng

Dr. Chan Eng Heng, a professor at Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, is a conservationist who has been recognized by the United Nations for her efforts to protect sea turtles.In 2001, Chan and her husband Liew Hock Chark became Global 500 Laureates....

and Liew Hock Chark (Malasia), Frederick Gikandi

Ngomongo Villages

Ngomongo Villages is a well-known sustainable eco-cultural tourist village located in Mombasa, Kenya.Once a sun baked, arid, barren and rocky base of a former limestone mine, the floor of this quarry was barely five feet above the slightly salty water table. Dr...

(Kenya), Environmental Investigation Agency

Environmental Investigation Agency

The Environmental Investigation Agency is an NGO founded in 1984 by Dave Currey, Jennifer Lonsdale and Allan Thornton, three environmental activists in the United Kingdom. Its stated goal is to investigate and expose crimes against wildlife and the environment...

(EIA), Dalian Municipal Government

Dalian

Dalian is a major city and seaport in the south of Liaoning province, Northeast China. It faces Shandong to the south, the Yellow Sea to the east and the Bohai Sea to the west and south. Holding sub-provincial administrative status, Dalian is the southernmost city of Northeast China and China's...

, Cubasolar Cuban Society for the Protection of Renewable Energy

2002

H. R. H. Princess Basma bint Ali

Princess Basma bint Talal

Princess Basma bint Talal of Jordan is the only daughter of the late King Talal I bin Abdullah and Queen Zain Al-Sharaf Talal of Jordan, sister of the late King Hussein I of Jordan and paternal aunt to the current King of Jordan, HM King Abdullah II...

, Amazon Conservation Team

Amazon Conservation Team

The Amazon Conservation Team is a non-profit organization that works in partnership with indigenous people of tropical America in conserving the biodiversity of the Amazon Rainforest as well as the culture and land of its indigenous people....

(ACT), Aohanqi Chifeng City of Inner Mongolia

Chifeng

Chifeng , also known as Ulanhad, is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China. It borders Xilin Gol to the north and west, Tongliao to the northeast, Chaoyang prefecture of Liaoning province to the southeast, and Chengde prefecture of Hebei province to the...

, Fondo Ecuatoriano Populorum Progressio (Equador), Shenzhen

Shenzhen

Shenzhen is a major city in the south of Southern China's Guangdong Province, situated immediately north of Hong Kong. The area became China's first—and one of the most successful—Special Economic Zones...

, Tabigat Ecological Union (Kazakhstan), Eco-Walk Children of Baguio City

Baguio City

The City of Baguio is a highly urbanized city in northern Luzon in the Philippines. Baguio City was established by Americans in 1900 at the site of an Ibaloi village known as Kafagway...

, Joventude Ecologica Angolana (JEA, Angola)

2003

Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association

Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association , in short BELA , one of the leading nonprofit organization of lawyears, established in 1992 to provide judicial assistance in saving environment, and achieved the 'Global 500 Roll of Honour' under United Nations Environmental Program in 2003...

(BELA), Serge M. Antoine, Bindeshwar Pathak

Bindeshwar Pathak

Bindheshwar Pathak is an Indian sociologist. He is the founder of Sulabh International, an India-based social service organization which works to promote human rights, environmental sanitation, non-conventional sources of energy, waste management and social reforms through education...

, Najib Saab (Lebanon), Women Environment Preservation Committee (WEPCO, Kathmandu), Boureima Wankoye (Niger), Annelisa Kilbourn (Britain, 1967–2003), Salle Pedagogique des Zones Arides (Algeria).