2017
The African Parks Network
Africa
Environmental protection NGO created in 2000, in response to the shortage of properly managed protected areas on the African continent

2016
Mr Luc Hoffmann
Switzerland
Leading ornithologist and conservationist

2015
Mr Emmanuel de Merode
Belgium
Virunga National Park, Congo Democratic Republic

2014
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Red list of threatened species
EN

2013
SCAR
Antarctica
Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research

2012
Sir David Attenborough
United Kingdom
Scientific writer and naturalist researcher

2011
Dr Gretchen Daily
United States
World pioneer in the field of sustainable development and biodiversity conservation by helping to promote eco-systems

2010
Dr Peter Hamilton Raven
United States
Botanist and member of the American Academy of Sciences, for his commitment to the preservation of biodiversity

2009
Prof Edward Osborne Wilson
United States
Professor at Harvard, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author, biologist recognized as a world leader in ants

2008
Dr Jane Goodall
United Kingdom
Head of the Institute Jane Goodall fighting to save the great apes

2017
Mr Ibrahim Hassane Mayaki
Niger
Executive Secretary of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)

2016
Mr Deshigen Naidoo
South Africa
for the Water Research Commission

2015
Mr Loic Fauchon
France
Institute of Political Studies, Center of Higher Studies of Tourism in Aix en Provence

2014
Mr Ma Jun
China
Founding Director / Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs

2013
Prof John Anthony Allan
United Kingdom
BA Durham 1958, PhD London 1971, head of the London Water Research Group at King's College London and SOAS

2012
SIWI
Sweden
Stockholm International Water Institute

2011
Prof Andras Szollosi-Nagy
Hungary
Director of the Division of Water Sciences and Secretary of the International Hydrological Program (IHP) at UNESCO

2010
Pr Malin Falkenmark
Sweden
Renowned Stockholm International Water Institute scientist for his contribution to science in the field of water

2009
Mr Pan Yue
China
Deputy Minister of the Environment, Deputy Director of the SEPA (National Administration for the Protection of the Environment)

2008
Dr Sunita Narain
India
Director General of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Director of the Society for Environmental Communications

2017
MrsSheila Watt-Cloutier
Canada
Former President of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, the organization that internationally represents the 155,000 Inuit from Canada, Greenland, Alaska and Chukotka, at the northeastern end of the Russian Federation

2016
MrsLaurence Tubiana
France
Doctor of economic science, France’s ambassador charged with negotiations on climate change

2015
MrBill McKibben
United States
Author and environmentalist, awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the \‘alternative Nobel' in 2014

2014
Prof Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
Australia
Director of the Global Change Institute at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia

2013
Dr Jane Lubchenco
United States
Marine biologist and environmental scientist

2012
Dr Jean Jouzel
France
President of the High Council of Science and Technology (HCST) and member of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE)

2011
Dr David Suzuki
Canada
Geneticist famous for his promotion of science and his ecological activism

2010
Prof James Lovelock
United Kingdom
World-renowned atmospheric science expert for advocacy on climate change awareness

2009
Ms Marina Silva
Brazil
Former Brazilian Minister of the Environment, invested in the protection of the Amazon rainforest

2008
Mr Alain Hubert
Belgium
Civil engineer, explorer, certified guide, citizen concerned about the environment and sustainable development, entrepreneur

2014
Dr Sylvia Earle
United States
Ocean Elder, Patron of IUCN and ARKive, National Geographic Society Explorer in Residence

2008
Mr Guy Laliberté
Canada
Founder of the Cirque du Soleil and One Drop Foundation