Global 500 Roll of Honour

Awardees

• Anil Agarwal, prominent environmentalist from India.
• Sir David Attenborough, producer of environmental television programmes.
• Idelisa Bonnelly, 1987 Dominican Republic marine biologist who created the first Humpback Whale Sanctuary.
• Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway.
• Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States. He later won the Nobel Peace prize.
• Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French marine explorer.
• Jane Goodall of the United Kingdom whose research on wild chimpanzees and olive baboons provided insight into the lives of non-human primates
• Seth Sunday Ajayi, African Conservationist, Nigerian Scholar and Wildlife Expert.
• Annelisa Kilbourn, British conservationist, veterinarian and wildlife expert.
• Gabriel Lewis-Charles, the prominent environmentalist from St Lucia.
• Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement, a Kenyan grassroots environmental organisation. She later won the Nobel Peace prize.
• Harada Masazumi, Japanese medical researcher heavily involved in the study of Minamata disease.
• Francisco "Chico" Mendes, the Brazilian rubber tapper who was murdered during his fight to save the Amazon rainforest.
• George Monbiot, British journalist and researcher.
• Stephen O. Andersen, prominent US environmentalist, for efforts on stratospheric ozone protection
• Nikita Moiseyev, prominent Russian scientist, leading expert on consequences of nuclear war – "nuclear winter".
• Ken Saro-Wiwa, the environmental and human rights activist from Nigeria who was executed for leading the resistance of the Ogoni People against the pollution of their Delta homeland.
• Andrew Simmons, environmental activist and educator.
• Severn Suzuki, environmental activist.
• Lily Venizelos, Greek conservationist, founder and president of the Mediterranean Association to Save the Sea Turtles.