香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播

Press release 30 Jun, 2012

香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 announces winner of 2012 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 Thomson Reuters Environmental Media Award

For more than ten years, 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 (International Union for Conservation of Nature) has partnered with Thomson Reuters Foundation to honour environmental journalism with the 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 鈥 Thomson Reuters Environmental Media Award. 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2012 Award is Diogo Ver铆ssimo, a conservation biologist from Portugal with a passion for science communication.

For the first time ever the Award was hosted on Facebook, receiving 162 entries from 48 countries and听 a total of 26,274 votes. Ver铆ssimo鈥檚 entry, Greening the crisis: turning trouble into opportunity, won with an astounding 5,352 votes. Along with the accolade of winning the award, Diogo, who is currently undertaking a PhD at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology at the University of Kent, will receive an all expenses paid trip to South Korea to attend the 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 World Conservation Congress on Jeju Island in September.

鈥淐ommunicating nature and its inherent value in our lives is one of the greatest, yet most difficult tasks in the world. The interest in the 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 鈥 Thomson Reuters Environmental Media Award was inspiring this year,鈥 says John Kidd, 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 Director of Global Communications. 鈥淲e are extremely pleased to be able to award Diogo for his article and dedication to science communication.鈥

鈥淚 am thrilled to be chosen as the 2012 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 鈥 Thomson Reuters Environmental Media Award winner and to have the opportunity to attend the world鈥檚 leading environmental summit,鈥 says Diogo Ver铆ssimo, winner of the 2012 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 Thomson Reuters Environmental Media Award. 鈥淩eceiving the award will also help promote my personal mission of improving outreach and fundraising efforts for biodiversity conservation. I am so grateful to those that supported, voted for and shared my entry.鈥

For information please contact:
Gillian Eborn, Award Coordinator, t +41 22 999 0233, e: [email protected]