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For all Press Enquiries, please contact Pam Beddard Tel: +44 117 987 0442 Mob/Cell: +44 7767 621207 pam.beddard@btinternet.com or Annabel Lea, WFN Manager at annabel@whitleyaward.org Tel: +44 (0) 207 368 6568. The Whitley Awards Ceremony 2011 took place on Wednesday 11th May at the Royal Geographical Society in London. The event was hosted by writer and broadcaster John McCarthy. The opportunity to interview our Whitley Award Finalists and Winners for press and radio is available every year both before and after the Whitley Awards. We are always happy to hear from journalists and writers, and calls from editors wishing to feature our winners are particularly welcome. 2011 WHITLEY AWARDS 2011 Whitley Award Winners - 11th May 2011 Seven winners competed for the Whitley Gold Award of £60,000 - donated by WWF-UK - and we are delighted to announce the winner is Dr Rachel Graham for her work to protect Belize's sharks, crucial to healthy seas and for the country's economically important tourism industry PHOTOS AVAILABLE NOW (Whitley Award winners receiving their prizes from HRH The Princess Royal, also project photos) Press releases and links to download short films of each winner's work (narrated by Sir David Attenborough) available below. Whitley Gold Award donated by WWF-UK AND the Whitley Award donated by Natasha and George Duffield Rachel Graham – Saving sharks: marine conservation through community outreach and participatory research, Belize. Winner profile and short project film narrated by Sir David Attenborough Whitley Award donated by The Shears Foundation Jana Bedek - Subterranean conservation of the lost cave systems of the Dinaric Arc, Croatia Youtube link to short project film narrated by Sir David Attenborough Whitley Award donated by Goldman Sachs Hotlin Ompusunggu - Dentistry and Deforestation: local community health through forest stewardship, Gunung Palung national park, Borneo. Winner profile and short project film narrated by sir David Attenborough
Whitley Award donated by The William Brake Charitable Trust Luis Rivera – Threatened parrots as flagships for Southern Yungas forests, Bolivia and Argentina. Winner profile and short project film narrated by Sir David Attenborough
Whitley Award donated by The Friends of The WFN Ramana Athreya - Forging alliances with Himalayan tribal communities for wildlife sanctuary management, Arunachal Pradesh, India. Winner profile and short project film narrated by Sir David Attenborough Whitley Award donated by The Scottish Friends of the WFN Elena Bykova - Community action for disappearing Saiga Antelopes of the Ustyurt Plateau, Uzbekistan. Winner profile and short film narrated by Sir David Attenborough Whitley Award donated by The Garfield Weston Foundation Igor Prokofyev – People and bats: Russia’s first community-led Bat Conservation movement, Western Russia. Winner profile and short film narrated by Sir David Attenborough
2010 WHITLEY AWARDS 2010 Whitley Award Winners - 12th May 2010 Eight winners competed for the Whitley Gold Award of £60,000, and we are delighted to announce the winner is Angela Maldonado for her work to improve the lives of local communities and end the illegal trade of night monkeys in the Colombian Amazon. PHOTOS AVAILABLE NOW (Whitley Award winners receiving their prizes from HRH The Princess Royal, also Project photos) Press releases available below for each of the eight Whitley Award winners. Whitley Gold Award AND Whitley Award donated by HSBC Private Bank Whitley Award donated by The Shears Foundation Whitley Award donated by WWF-UK Whitley Award donated by The William Brake Charitable Trust Whitley Award donated by The Friends of WFN Whitley Award donated by The Garfield Weston Foundation Whitley Award donated by Natasha and George Duffield Whitley Award donated by WildInvest 2009 WHITLEY AWARDS 2009 Whitley Award Winners - 13th May 2009 Six Winners competed for the Whitley Gold Award of £60,000, and we are delighted to announce the winner is Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka for her work with local communities and mountain gorillas at Bwindi, Uganda. PHOTOS AVAILABLE NOW (Whitley Award winners receiving their prizes from HRH The Princess Royal, also Project photos) Press releases available below for each of the six Whitley Award winners. Whitley Gold Award AND Whitley Award donated by WWF-UK Whitley Award donated by The Shears Foundation Whitley Award donated by HSBC Private Bank Whitley Award donated by The William Brake Charitable Trust Whitley Award donated by The Friends of The WFN Whitley Award donated by Paula and Mario Frering
2008 WHITLEY AWARDS 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
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