Live- and Livestream Event
Frankfurt Conservation Awards
presented the Bruno H. Schubert Preis
6 November 2023
6 p.m. CET
The Frankfurt Conservation Awards – an environmental prize in 3 categories awarded by the Bruno H. Schubert-Foundation – will be awarded on November 6th 2023 at 6 p.m. CET.
The Frankfurt Conservation Award
The Bruno H. Schubert-Preis
The Bruno H. Schubert Prize is awarded by the Frankfurt-based Bruno H. Schubert Foundation to individuals for their exceptional commitment to preserving the biological diversity of our planet. The non-profit foundation has been honoring scientific achievements and the practical implementation of research results in the field of nature conservation and environmental protection since 1983. Among the award winners are big names such as Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1983), Prof. Edward O. Wilson (1996) or Prof. Klaus Töpfer (2002).
The total amount of prize money is currently 70,000 euros. The foundation’s board of directors determines the distribution of the prize money among the three prize categories. The prize money is determined from the income of the foundation’s assets.
The Frankfurt Conservation Awards are awarded in three categories:
Category 1
The Bruno H. Schubert-Award 2021
A personality of science, journalism or practical nature conservation who has rendered outstanding services to the conservation of nature and the environment, especially wildlife (Lifetime achievement award). The award is endowed with 30 000 Euros.
Julia Miranda Londoño
Julia Miranda Londoño, a lawyer specializing in environmental law and a passionate environmentalist, was head of the Colombian National Parks Authority from 2004 to 2020.
The expansion of Colombia’s protected areas network was a significant achievement of her nearly 17 years in office. During this time, fifteen protected areas were either newly designated or expanded, including the breathtaking Chiribiquete National Park. In total, 59 national parks encompassing 31.3 million hectares,
equivalent to more than 18 percent of Colombia’s land area, were under her leadership. The Colombian also worked tirelessly to designate an additional ten national parks and expanding two existing ones.
Julia Miranda Londoño has great diplomatic skills which has helped her nature conservation efforts, both in Colombia and on an international scale. For twenty years, she was part of the IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas, which consists of a network of 2,500 protected area specialists from 140 countries, and, since 2015 she has been vice-chair of this commission.


JULIA MIRANDA LONDOÑO’S VISION, COMMITMENT AND SKILLS HAVE MADE HER AN OUTSTANDING NATURE CONSERVATION AND BIODIVERSITY PRESERVATION CHAMPION IN COLOMBIA AND BEYOND.


IT IS THANKS TO SILVANA CAMPELLO & GEORGE GEORGIADIS’S CONTINUOUS EFFORTS THAT GIANT OTTERS AND RIVER DOLPHINS CONTINUE TO SHOW STABLE POPULATIONS AND THAT LOCAL SUPPORT FOR THEIR NGO’S IMPORTANT WORK IN PROTECTING THE CANTÃO ECOSYSTEM REMAINS, DESPITE THE CURRENTLY DIFFICULT POLITICAL SITUATION IN BRAZIL.
Category 2:
devided between two awardees: Awardee 1
Individuals who have made outstanding individual achievements in the field of conservation of nature and the environment and who have done remarkable practical conservation work. (Next generation of scientists award).
For exceptional achievements in practical nature conservation. The award is endowed with 15 000 Euros.
DR. SILVANA CAMPELLO & GEORGE GEORGIADIS
In 1996, while looking for natural areas to protect in Brazil’s Amazon, two scientists, Silvana Campello and George Georgiadis, visited the Cantão ecosystem for the first time. They soon realized that here, the populations of fish, aquatic reptiles, birds, giant otters, caimans, and jaguars were very high when compared to average Amazonian numbers. After this trip, they returned to Cantão several times, eventually becoming instrumental contributors to the establishment of Cantão State Park two years later. In 2010, the couple founded an NGO dedicated to research and nature conservation in the Cantão protected area called Instituto Araguaia.
Thanks to their efforts, Cantão State Park is now considered to be one of Brazil’s most important nature reserves, where a growing population of giant otters has full protection, the only place in the country where this is the case. Here, in 2014, the Cantão river dolphins were classified as a separate species, now called the Araguaia river dolphin. Also, coordinated work with local communities has reduced hunting and illegal fishing in the protected area.
Category 2:
devided between two awardees: Awardee 2
Individuals who have made outstanding individual achievements in the field of conservation of nature and the environment and who have done remarkable practical conservation work. (Next generation of scientists award).
For exceptional achievements in practical nature conservation. The award is endowed with 15 000 Euros.
TEÓFILO TORRES TUESTA
Teófilo Torres understands the important role of indigenous communities living in the Amazon for nature conservation efforts. Especially since he was born in the local community Remanso on the Putumayo River, near Yaguas National Park. As such, as director of Yaguas National Park, it was a priority for him to nurture dialogues with the ethnic groups living along the Putumayo River.
In 2002, Teófilo Torres began his career as a sociologist with Peru’s national parks authority SERNANP. In 2012, some of his most important achievements were the designations and establishments of the Güeppi-Sekime National Park and the Airo Pai and Huimeki Municipal Reserves in the Putumayo River’s upper drainage basin. Later, Teófilo Torres became the director of these protected areas. Together with the local communities in the region, he and his team developed management plans for the Güeppi-Sekime National Park and adjacent Communal Reserves. They also worked on agreements regarding the sustainable harvesting of the Yellow-spotted River Turtles.
In September 2015, Teófilo Torres became the director of Yaguas Reserved Zone, with the initial task of re-starting the designation process to make the Reserved Zone a national park, a process that had been halted. He achieved this goal in January 2018, making Yaguas into a national park that covers 868,928 hectares. The Yaguas River is an important source of freshwater for the region. Also, the diversity of fish species, and quantity of large fish make this a critically important food source for indigenous communities living in the middle and lower sections of the Putumayo River Basin, as well as the Ampiyacu River Basin. Unfortunately, the health of the rivers is threatened with gold mining activities. To combat this, Teófilo Torres has implemented a strategy against alluvial gold mining and logging activities in Yaguas National Park.


ILLEGAL GOLD MINING IS LINKED TO ORGANIZED CRIME IN PERU, AS SUCH, TEÓFILO HAS ALSO TAKEN GREAT PERSONAL RISKS TO ENSURE THE PROTECTION OF THIS AREA AND ITS BIODIVERSITY.
The award ceremony 2021
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The Bruno H. Schubert Foundation

The Bruno H. Schubert Foundation is a non-profit foundation based in Frankfurt am Main. It awards the highest endowed private environmental prize in Germany – for commitment to nature and the environment.
Our purpose is to serve the promotion of science and its practical implementation in knowledge and defense against threats to nature, animals and the environment. The non-profit foundation was included in the Hessian Foundation Directory.
The name of the foundation goes back to the entrepreneur and honorary citizen of the city of Frankfurt, Consul General Bruno H. Schubert (1919-2010).
Throughout his life, he had been committed to the protection of animals and the environment. In addition to his diplomatic commitment to Chile, Bruno H. Schubert was a board member of the Frankfurt Zoological Society and a recipient of high national and international awards. Consul General Bruno H. Schubert and his wife Inge Schubert established the charitable foundation in 1994 and endowed it with a capital of DM 1 million. The Bruno H. Schubert Foundation works closely with the Frankfurt Zoological Society.
Every two years, the Environmental Foundation awards the Bruno H. Schubert Prize in Frankfurt am Main. It honors scientific achievements and their practical implementation in the field of nature conservation and environmental protection.
In the three thematic areas of nature, animals and the environment, the Bruno H. Schubert Foundation takes over: (currently suspended)
- the awarding of research contracts
- the issue of scholarships
- the promotion of scientific publications
- the financial support of research projects
Category 3
Category 3 is the only one for which you can apply yourself. (For categories 1 and 2 the nominees must be proposed by a third party). Applicants cannot be older than 25 years. Application documents must include the following information or documents:
- Project name
- Project sponsor (e.g. name of school, association, etc., address)
- Project manager (name, address)
- Project description (description of the objective, work implementation, number of active project participants with age information)
- Third-party award (name of award, awarded by…, on…, amount of endowment)
- First-time application for the Bruno H. Schubert Prize: Yes / No, already applied in the year
- Documentation about project goals and work: (Possibly enclosing photographic material and related press publications). If necessary, the documents must be supplemented by scientific references from third parties. The copyrights of submitted photographic material must lie with the project sponsor or project manager.
Please send the application documents for prize category 3 of the Bruno H. Schubert Prize 2023 by May 15, 2023 to:
Bruno H. Schubert-Stiftung
Zoologische Gesellschaft Frankfurt
Bernhard-Grzimek-Allee 1
60316 Frankfurt am Main
registration @ bruno-h-schubert-preis.org