Sultan Qaboos Environment Prize

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Prize donor Qabus ibn Said (2013)

The Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Preservation is a biennial award given by UNESCO and donated by the Sultan of Oman , Qabus ibn Said . The purpose of the award is to guarantee recognition to those who have distinguished themselves through their outstanding contributions in the field of management or conservation of the environment. Prize winners can be individuals, groups, institutes or organizations.

The award consists of a diploma and a grant of $ 70,000. The award takes place during the World Science Forum .

Award winners

  • 1991: Instituto de Ecología , AC (Mexico).
  • 1993: Jan Jenik (Czech Republic).
  • 1995: Lake Malawi National Park (Malawi).
  • 1997: Department of Environmental Sciences at Alexandria University (Egypt) and Forest Department (Sri Lanka).
  • 1999: Charles Darwin Foundation (Ecuador)
  • 2001: Chad Association of Volunteers for the Protection of the Environment (Chad).
  • 2003: Center for Ecology (Venezuela) and Peter Johan Schei (Norway).
  • 2005: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (Australia) and Ernesto Enkerlin (Mexico).
  • 2007: Institute of Biodiversity Conservation (Ethiopia) and Julius Oszlányi (Slovakia).
  • 2009: Autonomous Authority for National Parks (OAPN) (Spain).
  • 2011: Institute for Forest Research of Nigeria (Nigeria)
  • 2013: State Forests National Forest Holding of Poland (Poland) and The Endangered Wildlife Trust (South Africa)
  • 2015: Fabio A. Kalesnik, Horacio Sirolli and Luciano Iribarren from the Wetlands Ecology Research Group at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
  • 2017: The National Parks Board of Singapore (Singapore)

Web links

  • Site of the Sultan Qaboos Environment Prize at UNESCO

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Team from University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, to receive 2015 UNESCO Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Preservation. In: UNESCO. Retrieved March 4, 2019 .
  2. ^ The National Parks Board of Singapore to receive UNESCO Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Preservation. In: UNESCO. October 24, 2017, accessed March 4, 2019 .