Celebrate conservation with Norland-based wildlife charity Whitley Fund for Nature
You are invited to watch and listen to short talks about successful global conservation projects alongside Sir David Attenborough and HRH The Princess Royal, for the 2021 Whitley Awards Ceremony. The conservation winners are passionate changemakers, who work alongside local communities to protect wildlife and maintain habitats across the global south.
Every year six grassroots conservationists are awarded prestigious prizes which provide funding, training and some publicity. If you would like to watch the winners and hear their stories, click here … Whitley Awards
Out of this year’s 106 applications, these are the top 15 candidates, all doing incredible work with communities to safeguard wildlife, habitats and the future of society:
Risper Oteke in Kenya: Empowering women to partake in ocean governance through sustainable livelihood opportunities
Bibhuti Lahkar in India: Building bridges between people and Asian elephants
Sammy Saafari in Kenya: Alleviating poverty to ensure a stainable future for communities and marine ecosystems
Carlos Roesler in Argentina: Helping the Hooded Grebe – guardian of the Patagonian steppes
Iroro Tanshi in Nigeria: Collaborative action to conserve critical bat habitat and boost local livelihoods
Tatiana Arias in Colombia: Orchid conservation in the cloud forests of Colombia
Tulsi Subedi in Nepal: Community conservation of the Himalayan Bearded Vulture
Nuklu Phom in India: Establishing a biodiversity peace corridor
Rita Ratsisetraina in Madagascar: Bringing the red-ruffed lemur back from the brink
Joseph Onoja in Nigeria: Developing plant-based alternatives to vulture body parts in traditional medicine
Lucy Kemp in South Africa: Working with communities to restore the population of Southern Ground-Hornbill
Reynante Ramilo in the Philippines: Establishing a community-managed dugong Conservation Area Network in the Calamianes Island Group
Ransford Agyei in Ghana: Scaling up pangolin protection
Wahdi Azmi in Indonesia: Saving Sumatran elephants and their habitat
Pedro Fruet in Brazil: Bridging the gap through integrated conservation of the lahille’s bottlenose dolphin
