The Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Preservation is a biennial award sponsored by the
(UNESCO) and the Sultan
Qaboos Bin Said
Qaboos bin Said Al Said (, ; 18 November 1940 – 10 January 2020) was Sultan of Oman from 23 July 1970 until his death in 2020. A fifteenth-generation descendant of the founder of the Al Bu Said dynasty, he was the longest-serving leader in t ...
of
Oman
Oman, officially the Sultanate of Oman, is a country located on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in West Asia and the Middle East. It shares land borders with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Oman’s coastline ...
"to afford recognition to outstanding contributions by individuals, groups of individuals, institutes or organizations in the management or preservation of the environment, consistent with the policies, aims and objectives of UNESCO, and in relation to the Organization's programmes in this field."
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The award consists of a diploma and a grant of
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$70,000.00, which is financed by the interest on a
USD
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$250,000.00 donation by Sultan Qaboos Bin Said.
Laureates
Source
UNESCO* 1991: Instituto de Ecología, A.C. ().
* 1993:
Jan Jenik ().
* 1995:
Lake Malawi National Park ().
* 1997: Department of Environmental Sciences,
Alexandria University
Alexandria University () is a public university in Alexandria, Egypt. It was established in 1938 as a satellite of Fouad University (the name of which was later changed to Cairo University), becoming an independent entity in 1942. It was known as ...
() and Forest Department ().
* 1999:
Charles Darwin Foundation ()
* 2001: Chad Association of Volunteers for the Protection of the Environment ().
* 2003: Center for Ecology () and
Peter Johan Schei ().
* 2005:
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority () and
Ernesto Enkerlin ().
* 2007: Institute of Biodiversity Conservation () and
Julius Oszlányi ().
* 2009: Autonomous Authority for National Parks (OAPN) ().
* 2011: Institute for Forest Research of
Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of . With Demographics of Nigeria, ...
* 2013:
State Forests National Forest Holding of
Poland
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() and South Africa's Endangered Wildlife Trust ()
* 2015: Fabio A. Kalesnik, Horacio Sirolli and Luciano Iribarren of the Wetlands Ecology Research Group of the
University of Buenos Aires
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, Argentina ()
* 2017: The National Parks Board of
Singapore
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* 2019: ''Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)''
India
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''Ashoka Trust (India) to receive 2019 UNESCO Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Conservation''
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See also
* List of environmental awards
External links
UNESCO: Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Preservation
References
UNESCO awards
Awards established in 1991
Environmental awards
1991 establishments in Oman
Omani awards
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