Parker-Gentry Award

Established in 1996, the Parker/Gentry Award honors an outstanding individual, team or organization in the field of conservation biology whose efforts have had a significant impact on preserving the world's natural heritage and whose actions and approach can serve as a model to others. The Award is designed to highlight work that could benefit from wider publicity and fuller dissemination of scientific results.

The Parker/Gentry Award is presented annually by The Field Museum of Natural History.

The Award bears the names of the late Theodore A. Parker III^[1] and Alwyn Howard Gentry,^[1] outstanding conservation biologists, who worked closely with several Field Museum curators, especially through the Rapid Assessment Program (RAP) launched by Conservation International.

Parker, an ornithologist, and Gentry, a botanist, were killed August 3, 1993 when their light plane crashed into a mountainside as they were making a treetop survey of an Ecuadorian cloud forest.

Award Winners

1996 Fernando Rubio, Pronaturaleza, Peru^[2]

1997 Christopher Gordon, Volta Basin Research Project, Ghana^[3]

1998 Randall Borman, Central Cofan Zabalo, Ecuador^[4]

1999 Juan Mayr Maldonado, Fundacion Pro Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia^[5]

2000 Louise Emmons, United States^[6]

2001 Michael Lannoo, United States^[7]

2002 Los Amigos Team, Cordillera Azul National Park Peru^[8]

2003 Lorivi Ole Moirana, Tanzania^[9]

2004 Yang Yuming, Yunnan Province, China^[10]

2005 Gary Stiles, Colombia^[11]

2006 Jose "Pepe" Alvarez A., Peru^[12]

2007 Judith Kimerling, United States^[13]

2008 Tim Davenport, Tanzania^[14]

2009 Daniel Rakotondravony, Madagascar^[15]

2010 Therese and John Hart, Réserve de Faune á Okapis, D.R. Congo^[16]

2011 Lester Kaufman, United States^[17]

2012 Nina R. Ingle, Philippines^[18]

2013, John Kress, United States^[19]

2014, Rhett Butler, United States^[20]

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