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The engagement and collaboration of all relevant stakeholders, including citizens, governments, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, researchers and the private sector are essential to safeguard biodiversity. To promote such multi-stakeholder engagement and collaboration, the MIDORI Prize is open to every stakeholder contributing to conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in the field of practical action, science, policy or public awareness.
The MIDORI Prize, a biennial international prize co-organized by the AEON Environmental Foundation and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), honors three individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.
We would like you to nominate candidates for this prize.
Nominations are accepted through the website of the AEON Environmental Foundation.
The call for nominations remains open until 15 June 2018.
Information on the prize winners in the past are in the following web page.
http://www.aeon.info/ef/en/prize/midori/winner/
Download the nomination sheet and register your entry in the below URL.
http://www.aeon.info/ef/en/prize/midori/about.html
The MIDORI Prize is awarded to three individuals who will each be honored at an award ceremony held in Tokyo, in October 2018 prior to the fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties, and who will each receive a monetary prize of US$100,000. The prize winners will be announced at the end of September 2018.
The Joint news release by AEON Environmental Foundation and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity are;
http://www.aeon.info/ef/attachments/prize/midori/Press%20Release_MIDORI%20Prize2018_en.pdf
For further Information contact to: Secretariat of The MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity 2018
