THE AWARD
As part of the global celebration of World
Environment Day (June 5), Planeta.com presents the annual
Colibri Ecotourism Award to a leading catalyst working toward
responsible travel and ecotourism in Mexico!
Ecotourism
depends on bold leadership and the Colibri Ecotourism Award
recognizes leaders working in Mexico.
Winners include Steve
Bridger, Hector
Ceballos-Lascurain, Jorge
Chàvez de la Peña, Fernando
Garcia Aguinaco, Marlene
Ehrenberg, Juan
Carlos Ibarra, Jennifer
Morfín, Antonio
Suárez and Francisco
Verástegui.
The award is announced a week before World
Environment Day (June 5).
In 2008 the Colibri Ecotourism Award celebrates its seventh
anniversary, making this one of the longest-running tourism
awards. Selection is made by Planeta.com founder Ron
Mader in consultation with friends and colleagues.
The winner receives a trophy, diploma and a cash award of $1,000
from Emilio Kifuri, president of Canyon
Travel.
As of 2007 additional financial support comes from Destination
Ventures which allows Planeta.com to develop some supporting
projects, including the documentation of Oaxaca's historic trees
on YouTube and Google Earth.
LANGUAGE LESSON
'Colibri' means 'hummingbird' in Spanish.
CRITERIA
Planeta.com presents the Colibri Ecotourism Award to those
whose work in Mexico is exemplary and who share what they learn.
Good ideas require good work to come to completion and good
work needs to be documented so that lessons can be shared.
Nominees participate in the Planeta
Forum or contribute editorial suggestions for at least a
year. Bonus points are given to those who participate on other
websites and forums. This is part of our desire to create an
incentive for communication,
collaboration
and continuity.
HISTORY OF WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY
The United
Nations General Assembly established the first World
Environment Day in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm
Conference on the Human Environment.
"Stockholm was without doubt the landmark event in the
growth of international environmentalism," writes John
McCormick in Reclaiming
Paradise. "It was the first occasion on which the political,
social and economic problems of the global environment were
discussed at an intergovernmental forum with a view to actually
taking corrective action."
Another resolution led to the creation of the United
Nations Environment Programme.
LOOKING AHEAD
All eyes of the world will be on Wellington
which hosts World
Environment Day 2008 and its focus on low carbon economies.
Planeta.com invites those with news about low carbon initiatives
to check out the online Tourism
and Climate Change E-Conference
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