Whitley Award Winners
We have given £23 million to support the work of more than 200 grassroots conservation leaders, benefiting wildlife and communities in over 80 countries across the Global South.
2024 Winners
2024 Gold Award
2023 Winners
Albert Salemgareyev
Kazakhstan
Building trust in data: Finding solutions for saiga antelope and people in West Kazakhstan
2023 Gold Award
2022 Winners
Pablo Hoffmann
Brazil
Rooting for the Future: Nurturing Wild Plant Diversity in the Araucaria Forest Region
Estrela Matilde
Sao Tome and Principe
Stemming the Tide of Plastic Pollution: An Island-Wide Effort to Save Sea Turtles
Micaela Camino
Argentina
Empowering communities to defend their human rights and conserve Argentina’s Dry Chaco
Dedy Yansyah
Indonesia
Last Stand for the Sumatran Rhino: Looking out for Leuser’s Ecosystem Engineers
2022 Gold Award
2021 Winners
Iroro Tanshi
Nigeria
Bats from the brink: Participatory action to save the short-tailed roundleaf bat
2021 Gold Award
2020 Winners
2020 Gold Award
2019 Winners
2019 Gold Award
2018 Winners
Dominique Bikaba
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ensuring the survival of DRC’s eastern lowland gorillas
Shahriar Caesar Rahman
Bangladesh
Tortoises in trouble: community conservation of Asia’s largest tortoise
2018 Gold Award
2017 Winners
Ximena Velez-Liendo
Bolivia
An uphill climb: enabling coexistence of Andean bears and farmers in the Bolivian mountains
Alexander Blanco
Venezuela
Nest protectors: conserving Venezuela’s magnificent Harpy Eagles as a rainforest flagship
Indira Lacerna-Widmann
Philippines
Partnering with prisoners to safeguard the Critically Endangered Philippine Cockatoo
2017 Gold Award
Zafer Kizilkaya
Turkey
Guardians of the sea: securing and expanding marine reserves along the Turkish coastline
2016 Winners
2016 Gold Award
2015 Winners
2015 Gold Award
2014 Winners
2014 Gold Award
2013 Winners
Zafer Kizilkaya
Turkey
Guardians of the sea: securing and expanding marine reserves along the Turkish coastline
2013 Gold Award
2012 Winners
2012 Gold Award
2011 Winners
Hotlin Ompusunggu
Borneo, Indonesia
Dentistry and Deforestation: local community health through forest stewardship
2011 Gold Award
2010 Winners
2009 Associate Award Winners
2009 Winners
2009 Gold Award
2008 Associate Award Winners
2008 Winners
2008 Joint Gold Award
Cagan Sekercioglu
Turkey