Awards

IRDNC awards

IRDNC and its staff have been honored by a number of international and Namibian environmental awards.

2006   Beavan Munali, Caprivi NRM team leader

Namibia's National Green Conservationist of the Year - NNF and Nedbank.

2006   Anton Esterhuizen, Kunene NRM team leader

Conservationist of the Year awards from Namibian Professional Hunters Association.

2003   The late Prince George Mutwa, Salambala Conservancy, Caprivi

NNF's Conservationist of the Year Award.

2003   Garth Owen-Smith and Dr Margaret Jacobsohn, IRDNC co-directors

Cheetah Conservation Fund's Conservationist of the Year Award.

2001   Bennie Roman, a Kunene coordinator

First black Namibian to win the Conservationist of the Year Award from the Namibian Professional Hunting Association.

2000   Janet Matota, a Caprivi coordinator

Co-winner of the Namibia Nature Foundation's first Conservationist of the Year Award.

1998   Garth Owen-Smith and Dr Margaret Jacobsohn, IRDNC co-directors

Knights of the Order of the Golden Ark, Netherlands.

1994   Garth Owen-Smith and Dr Margaret Jacobsohn

The United Nations Environmental Programme's Global 500 Award.

1993   Garth Owen-Smith and Dr Margaret Jacobsohn

Joint winners of the Goldman Grassroots Environmental Prize for Africa.

1992   Garth Owen-Smith

Southern African Rhino and Elephant Foundation's Conservationist of the Year.

Awards to the national conservancy program

2007   Kyaramacin Residents' Trust and the Namibian Minister of Environment and Tourism

Co-winners of the Edmond Blanc Prize.

2004   Torra Conservancy

Winner of the UNDP Equator Prize for the best Community Environmental Project in the world.

1998   President of Namibia, as patron of the communal conservancies

WWF award.