The Parker/Gentry Award, established in 1996 and presented annually by the Field Museum of Natural History, 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 award bears the names of the late Theodore A. Parker III and Alwyn Howard Gentry, 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 1997 Christopher Gordon, Volta Basin Research Project, Ghana 1998 Randall Borman, Central Cofan Zabalo, Ecuador 1999 Juan Mayr Maldonado, Fundacion Pro Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia 2000 Louise H. Emmons, United States 2001 Michael Lannoo, United States 2002 Los Amigos Team, Cordillera Azul National Park, Peru 2003 Lorivi Ole Moirana, Tanzania 2004 Yang Yuming, Yunnan Province, China 2005 Gary Stiles, Colombia 2006 Jose "Pepe" Alvarez A., Peru 2007 Judith Kimerling, United States 2008 Tim Davenport, Tanzania 2009 Daniel Rakotondravony, Madagascar 2010 Therese and John Hart, Réserve de Faune á Okapis, D.R. Congo 2011 Lester Kaufman, United States 2012 Nina R. Ingle, Philippines 2013, W. John Kress, United States 2014, Rhett Ayers Butler, United States 2015, Merlijn van Weerd, Netherlands 2016, Uma Ramakrishnan, India 2017, David Vaughan, United States 2018, Instituto del Bien Común, Peru 2019, Gun Lake Potawatomi, United States 2020, Michael Goulding, United States 2021, Fort Belknap Indian Community and American Prairie Reserve 2022, August M. Ball and Cream City Conservation, United States 2023, South Rupununi Conservation Society of Guyana, Guyana 2024, Urban Rivers, United States 2025, Dave Willard, United States

See also

List of environmental awards

References