Do you know a wildlife conservation hero who has been essential to protecting nature in Canada at personal financial sacrifice? Someone like Ray Plourde, last year’s winner? Nominate that person for the fourth annual $10,000 Glen Davis Conservation Leadership Prize. Deadline: 5 p.m. ET Friday May 1, 2020. 

Glen Davis was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. When he wasn’t managing his financial interests or trekking in remote wilderness, he helped to protect more of Canada than anyone before or after him. Glen loved big wilderness and was a leading supporter of WWF-Canada’s Endangered Spaces Campaign between 1989-2000, which resulted in the establishment of more than 1,000 new nature reserves, parks and wilderness areas, doubling the amount of protected lands and waters in Canada. Tragically, his life was cut short. Glen was slain in May of 2007 at age 66.

The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society was a strong partner in Glen’s conservation work, particularly through its local chapters, which Glen supported right across the country. That’s why the $10,000 Glen Davis Conservation Leadership Prize is a joint project of WWF-Canada and CPAWS. 
Glen focused on tangible conservation accomplishments and distinguished between process, progress and results. So the Glen Davis Leadership Prize is intended to recognize not just improving the decision-making process, or making progress towards protection — as necessary as these steps might be. It rewards efforts that lead to the actual protection of land or marine ecosystems in Canada. For this reason, the successful candidates for this prize must have demonstrated clear conservation results, or be on the cusp of such accomplishments with help from the $10,000 prize money.

Click here for further information and eligibility requirements.