Go Green awards announced

AN environmental activist from the Caprivi Region, Beavan Munali, has won the NNF Environmental Award for 2006.

At an event in Windhoek to mark the occasion last Thursday, NNF Executive Director Chris Brown said Munali had dedicated 15 years of his life to conservation and rural development in the Caprivi Region, starting as a community game guard and now working as a regional field co-ordinator. He helped nurture a local vision for conservation, in which people would take ownership of wildlife and other natural resources, derive benefits from these resources and take responsibility for their management.Munali also hosts a weekly conservation programme on the NBC’s Lozi radio service.For the second year running, a reporter from The Namibian won the Namibia Nature Foundation and Nedbank Go Green Environmental Journalism Award.This year Absalom Shigwedha received the award.According to the NNF’s Brown, Shigwedha’s reporting on environmental and conservation issues had helped make the concept of sustainable development accessible to all literate Namibians.Last year’s Environmental Journalism award was won by journalist Lindsay Dentlinger, also of The Namibian.* The Go Green awards are organised by the Namibia Nature Foundation and sponsored by Nedbank.The primary aims of the NNF are to promote sustainable development, the conservation of biological diversity and natural ecosystems, and the wise and ethical use of natural resources for the benefit of all Namibians, both present and future.He helped nurture a local vision for conservation, in which people would take ownership of wildlife and other natural resources, derive benefits from these resources and take responsibility for their management.Munali also hosts a weekly conservation programme on the NBC’s Lozi radio service.For the second year running, a reporter from The Namibian won the Namibia Nature Foundation and Nedbank Go Green Environmental Journalism Award.This year Absalom Shigwedha received the award.According to the NNF’s Brown, Shigwedha’s reporting on environmental and conservation issues had helped make the concept of sustainable development accessible to all literate Namibians.Last year’s Environmental Journalism award was won by journalist Lindsay Dentlinger, also of The Namibian.* The Go Green awards are organised by the Namibia Nature Foundation and sponsored by Nedbank.The primary aims of the NNF are to promote sustainable development, the conservation of biological diversity and natural ecosystems, and the wise and ethical use of natural resources for the benefit of all Namibians, both present and future.