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For all Press Enquiries, please contact Annabel Lea, WFN Manager at annabel@whitleyaward.org T: +44 (0) 207 602 3443. The most recent Whitley Awards Ceremony took place on 21st May 2008. The opportunity to interview our Whitley Award Finalists and Winners for press and radio is available every year both before and after the Whitley Award Ceremony in May. We are always happy to hear from journalists and writers, and calls from editors wishing to feature our winners are particularly welcome.
2008 2008 Whitley Award Winners - 21st May 2008 Dr. Rodrigo Hucke-Gaete (Chile) Wins Gold Award (£60,000) Blue Whales: The Giants of Marine Conservation, Chile Dr. Çağan Şekercioğlu (Turkey) Wins Gold Award (£60,000) Community-based conservation, restoration and bird-tourism at Kuyucuk Lake, Turkey Dr. Deepak Apte (India) Wins Whitley Award (£30,000) Giant Clams and local livelihoods: India’s first network of marine protected areas, Lakshadweep, India Denny Kurniawan (Borneo) Wins Whitley Award (£30,000) Grassroots action for the management of tropical peat forest in Sebangau National Park, Borneo Patrícia Medici (Brazil) Wins Whitley Award (£30,000) The Lowland Tapir Conservation Initiative: Expanding from the Atlantic Forest to the Pantanal, Brazil Ernesto Ráez-Luna (Peru) Wins Whitley Award (£30,000) Ecosystem approach to conservation of the headwaters of theAmazonian, Tambopata, Peru. Marleny Rosales-Meda (Guatemala) Wins Whitley Award (£30,000) Sustainable forest use and subsistence hunting for indigenous MayaQ´eqchi´ communities, Lachuá, Guatemala Jean Wiener (Haiti) Wins Whitley Award (£30,000) Education, capacity building and action for people and environment, Haiti Liu Yi (China) Wins Whitley Award (£30,000) The China Mangrove Protection Project, China Zahirul Islam (Bangladesh) Wins Associate Award (£10,000) Sea turtle conservation through working with the communities of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh Carlos Peres (Brazil) Wins Associate Award (£10,000) Trade-offs between biodiversity & land value in the ‘Arc of Deforestation’, Amazonian frontier, Brazil
2007 10th May 2007 DR. FERNANDO TRUJILLO (COLOMBIA) WINS WHITLEY GOLD 10th May 2007 DR. KAREN AGHABABYAN (ARMENIA) WINS WHITLEY AWARD 10th May 2007 DR. LUIS AGUIRRE (BOLIVIA) WINS WHITLEY AWARD 10th May 2007 SANDRA BESSUDO (COLOMBIA) WINS WHITLEY AWARD 10th May 2007 ERIKA CUELLAR (BOLIVIA) WINS WHITLEY AWARD 10th May 2007 DR. GUO YU MIN (CHINA) WINS WHITLEY AWARD 10th May 2007 DR. BOHDAN PROTS (UKRAINE) WINS WHITLEY AWARD 10th May 2007 EMILIAN STOYNOV (BULGARIA) WINS WHITLEY AWARD 10th May 2007 DR. CRISTIAN BONACIC (CHILE) WINS COMMENDATION 10th May 2007 SILVIO MARCHINI (BRAZIL) WINS COMMENDATION
2006 10th May 2006 DR. PATRICIA MAJLUF (PERU) WINS WHITLEY GOLD AWARD 10th May 2006 DR. GERARDO CEBALLOS (MEXICO) WINS WHITLEY AWARD SPONSORED BY THE WILLIAM BRAKE CHARITABLE TRUST 10th May 2006 MANFRED EPANDA AIME (CAMEROON) WINS WHITLEY AWARD SPONSORED BY THE SIGRID RAUSING TRUST 10th May 2006 PEDRO VAZ PINTO (ANGOLA) WINS WHITLEY AWARD SPONSORED BY THE FRIENDS OF THE WFN 10th May 2006 NGUYEN THI PHUONG DUNG (VIETNAM) WINS RUNNER UP PRIZE AT THE WHITLEY AWARDS 2006 10th May 2006 SUPRABHA SESHAN (INDIA) WINS WHITLEY AWARD SPONSORED BY WWF-UK 10th May 2006 DMITRY LISITSYN (RUSSIA) WINS WHITLEY AWARD FOR RIVERS & WETLANDS 10th May 2006 SERGEY BEREZNUK (RUSSIA) WINS WHITLEY AWARD SPONSORED BY THE RUFFORD MAURICE LAING FOUNDATION 10th May 2006 ALEXANDER ARBACHAKOV (RUSSIA) WINS WHITLEY AWARD SPONSORED BY STING & TRUDIE STYLER
2005 20th April 2005 DR CHARUDUTT MISHRA (INDIA) WINS WHITLEY GOLD AWARD Read more... 20th April 2005 NICOLE AUIL (BELIZE) WINS WHITLEY AWARD FOR RIVERS & WETLANDS 20th April 2005 DR. HEM BARAL (NEPAL) WINS WHITLEY AWARD IN MEMORY OF DANIEL KELLY SPONSORED BY THE RMLF 20th April 2005 DIDIHER CHACON-CHAVERRI (COSTA-RICA) WINS WHITLEY AWARD FOR PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT SPONSORED BY WWF-UK 20th April 2005 ALBERTO GOMEZ-MEJIA (COLOMBIA) WINS WHITLEY AWARD SPONSORED BY THE WILLIAM BRAKE CHARITABLE TRUST 20th April 2005 GONZALO MEREDIZ-ALONSO (MEXICO) WINS WHITLEY AWARD SPONSORED BY STING & TRUDIE STYLER 20th April 2005 ANDRES NOVARO (ARGENTINA) WINS WHITLEY AWARD SPONSORED BY THE SIGRID RAUSING TRUST 20th April 2005 ROMULUS WHITAKER (INDIA) WINS WHITLEY AWARD SPONSORED BY THE FRIENDS OF THE WFN 20th April 2005 DR GRAHAM McCULLOCH (BOTSWANA) WINS RUNNER-UP PRIZE AT THE WHITLEY AWARDS 2005 2004 17th August 2004 NEW BIRD SPECIES DISCOVERED IN THE PHILIPPINES
30th April 2004 HRH THE PRINCESS ROYAL SALUTES WINNERS OF THE 'GREEN' OSCARS |
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