Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: The Whitley Awards 2026On April the Whitley Fund for Nature (WFN) announced the six conservation leaders receiving the Whitley Awards .The Whitley Awards ceremony was held at the Royal Geographical Society for the flagship event of the UK-based charity, which was also broadcast online.These are awards worth GBP , each in project funding over year.The Whitley Award Winners are Marina Kameni, Cameroon (Frogs and farmers in Mount Manengouba); Moreangels Mbizah, Zimbabwe (Lions and livelihoods: promoting human-wildlife coexistence in Zimbabwe); Paola Sangolquí, Ecuador (Rescuing the Galápagos petrel from the brink of extinction); Issah Seidu, Ghana (Fishers and guitarfish: preventing extinction along Ghana's western coastline); Parveen Shaikh, India (Skimmer guardians: protecting riverine birds and their habitat, India); and Barkha Subba, India (Survivor of a lost world: saving the Himalayan salamander and its wetlands).In addition, a Whitley Award alumnus is chosen to receive the Whitley Gold Award in recognition of their outstanding contribution to conservation.Worth GBP ,, this top prize was presented to Whitley Award winner Farwiza Farhan and her team at HAkA.Over the last decade, Farwiza has fought to conserve Sumatra's iconic species in the Leuser ecosystem in Aceh, Indonesia, by enabling communities to challenge development plans that threaten the forest and its people.With WFN's support, HAkA halted the construction of a megadam that would have drowned , ha of pristine forest, and scored a major victory against a palm oil company, PT Kallista Allam, for illegally burning , ha of forest.With this Whitley Gold Award, HAkA will accelerate community protection of water catchments in Leuser after cyclone
Source: Oryx
Author: Lisa Wheeler
Institution: Whitley Fund for Nature
Language: English
Subfield: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Life on land
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,550
OpenAlex ID: W7162097326
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