EuroNatur Award for Environmental Excellence
The EuroNatur Award for Environmental Excellence shall honour an outstanding commitment in the field of nature conservation, the preservation of our environment, environmental education and the support of sustainable development. The award shall be presented to personalities who have committed themselves in an exemplary manner to the preservation of natural resources over a long period of time.
The EuroNatur Award for Environmental Excellence was awarded for the first time in 1992. Ever since several outstanding public figures have been honoured for their private, social, economical or political activities in the field of nature conservation. The festive award-ceremony accompanied by an international public relations campaign emphasized the merits of the laureats and the special needs of nature conservation.
Proposals for the EuroNatur Award for Environmental Excellence can be made by environmental NGOs, the members of the board of trustees and the chairmanship of EuroNatur, former prize winners and in special cases national and regional governments. Self-nomination is not possible.
List of Award Winners
| 2008 | Prof. Dr. Herbert Sukopp, Professor emeritus for ecosytem research at the Technical University of Berlin |
| 2007 | Luc Hoffmann, Head of Mava Foundation |
| 2006 | Roland Emmerich |
| 2005 | Dr. Hans Bibelriether |
| 2004 | Nelson Mandela |
| 2003 | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| 2002 | His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales |
| 2001 | Karl Ludwig Schweisfurth and Dr. Claus Hipp, manager |
| 2000 | Volker Angres, Head of Environmental Department, ZDF (German TV) and Prof. Dr. Ernst Waldemar Bauer, nature documentary producer |
| 1999 | Prof. Dr. Klaus Töpfer, Executive Director of the UnitedNations Environment Programme (UNEP) |
| 1998 | Matthias Platzeck, Prime Minister of Brandenburg |
| 1997 | Prof. Dr. Bernhard Friedmann, Former President and Member of European Court of Auditors |
| 1996 | Arnulf Müller-Helmbrecht, General Secretary of the Bonn Convention and Ulf Doerner, engineer for environmental technology |
| 1995 | Prof. Dr. h.c. Dieter Stolte, Director of Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (German television channel) |
| 1994 | Jürgen Weber, Chairman of the Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG |
| 1993 | Matthias Kleinert, Former General Manager of Political and Foreign Affairs of DaimlerChrysler AG |
| 1992 | Eco-city partnership Sersheim (Germany) / Canale (Italy) |
