Awards

Nagenahiru Foundation and the Education Center are nominated for the "Green Award for Environment Education and Awarness Creation" by the Ministry of Environment Sri Lanka.

4 February 2009

Lake Chapala in Mexico receives the Ramsar Protection Status.

17 September 2008

Gidon Bromberg, Nader Al-Khateeb and Munqeth Mehyar, the three executive directors of FoEME, our partner organisation at the Dead Sea, are nominated as "Hereos of the Environment" by the TIME Magazine.

8 July 2008

19 June 2008

Lal Emmanuel is the winner of the first international "One World Award". In 1991 Emmanuel founded the Nagenahiru Foundation which has been a member of the Living Lakes network since 2002.

7 March 2008

Marion Hammerl, President of Global Nature Fund, receives the international environmental prize "Trophée de femmes" of the environmental foundation Fondation Yves Rocher in Paris.

15 February 2008

Marion Hammerl, President of Global Nature Fund, receives the national environmental prize "Trophée de femmes" of the environmental foundation Fondation Yves Rocher in Stuttgart.

27 November 2007

Living Lakes network receives the certificate of the UN Decade Project 2008 / 2009 in Stuttgart, Germany.

18 October 2007

Living Lakes network is nominated for the second time as UN Decade Project for the years 2008 / 2009.

August 2007

Living Lakes network is the initiative of the month August 2007 on the German portal OEKO-FAIR.DE.

January 2007

14 November 2005

Living Lakes network receives the first certificate of the UN Decade Project 2006 / 2007 in Erfurt, Germany.

13 October 2005

Living Lakes network is nominated for the first time as UN Decade Project for the years 2006 / 2007.

Wildsigt, the partner organisation at the Columbia River Wetlands in Canada, wins the Canadian Environment Award for Nature Conservation.