The 8th MIDORI Prizefor Biodiversity
On the occasion of the 10th Conference of theParties (COP10) to the Convention on BiologicalDiversity held in Nagoya in 2010, We have been
holding biennial prize for over 10 years since then,the Biodiversity Japan Award (domestic award) andthe MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity (internationalaward) . The issue of biodiversity is still a pressing
concern and is becoming increasingly important ona global scale. In light of this situation, on theoccasion of the 30th anniversary of the foundation'sestablishment, we have combined both prizes into
one and unified the name to "MIDORI Prize forBiodiversity". Through this prize, we will further
promote support for environmental activities related
to biodiversity from a more global perspective.

Organizer: AEON Environmental Foundation
Co-organizer: Secretariat of the Convention on
Biological Diversity
Nominal Support: Ministry of the Environment,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan

Message fromAEON Environmental Foundation
The foundation was established in 1990 by theChairman, Takuya Okada (Founder, Honorary
Chairman, and Advisor of AEON Co., Ltd.) basedon AEON's basic philosophy of pursuing peace,respecting humanity, and contributing to local
communities. It was established as Japan's first
corporate foundation focusing on the globalenvironment. Since its establishment, thefoundation has continued to carry out various
environmental activities in cooperation with awide range of stakeholders in Japan and overseas
in order to pass on irreplaceable earth to the next
generation. One of our representative projects is"tree-planting activities," in which we haveplanted trees in forests devastated by logging andnatural disasters in cooperation with local
volunteers around the world to restore greenery.
We also continue to provide funding to non-profit
organizations that are actively engaged inenvironmental activities, as well as environmental
education aimed at fostering human resources.
In the future, we will further develop each of theseprojects with the aim of realizing sustainablecommunity health, and in cooperation with ourfriends and acquaintances, we will work to build anew "AEON Satoyama" as well as to develop thelocal community and its people.

Address: 1-5-1 Nakase, Mihama-ku, Chiba City,
Chiba Prefecture, 261-8515, Japan
Website: www.aeon.info/ef/en2024

Conferment of the Prize
The Prize is awarded to two individuals who are eachhonored at a award ceremony and who each receive awooden plaque, a commemorative gift anda monetary prize of 100,000 US dollars.

Award Ceremony
The award ceremony for the MIDORI Prize will be held at
COP16, scheduled for October 21-November 1, 2024, inColombia.

Criteria
The engagement of and collaboration between all
stakeholders, including individual citizens, governments,
international organizations, non-governmentalorganizations, researchers and the private sector areessential to safeguard the Earth’s biodiversity.
Recognizing this, the MIDORI Prize is open to allindividuals contributing to conservation and sustainable
use of biodiversity in the field of practical activities＊.

Nominations are now invited for The 8th MIDORI Prize.
Nominations are made through the AEON Environmental
Foundation website. The nomination sheet will beavailable until 15 June 2024 in the website of the AEON
Environmental Foundation. The sheet should be filled outin English and submitted through the website.

2020

Melina Sakiyama (Brazil)

Co-founder, Global Youth Biodiversity NetworkWirsiy Emmanuel Binyuy (Cameroon)Founder,
Cameroon Gender and Environment Watch (CAMGEW)

Candidates must satisfy at least one of the following requirements:
Achievement

Have made outstanding achievements that greatly
contribute to biodiversity

Potential

Have the ability to influence future activities related
to biodiversity
Have conducted work which has impacts on various
activities for biodiversity around the world

Paul Hebert (Canada)

Professor, Department of Integrative Biology,
University of Guelph＊Practical activities : local activities and business activities conductedat several places in the world are taken into consideration.

ImpactCall for Nominations

Previous Winners of the MIDORI Prize

2018

Kathy MacKinnon (U.K.)

Chair, IUCN/World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)

Assad Serhal (Lebanon)

Director General, Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL)

Abdul Hamid Zakri (Malaysia)

Former Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Malaysia

Accomplishment will be assessed on its:
▶ International contribution

2016

Alfonso Aguirre-Muñoz (Mexico)

Executive Director, Grupo de Ecología y Conservación de Islas, A.C.

▶ Contribution to conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity

Yury Darman (Russia)▶ Social contribution

Vandana Shiva (India)▶ Long-term perspective and continuity▶ Creativity and originality▶ Openness for civil society▶ Efficacy and influence

Director, Amur Branch, WWF Russia
Founder and Director, Navdanya

2014

Kamal Bawa (India)

President, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), India
Distinguished Professor, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Alfred Oteng-Yeboah (Ghana)

Chair, Ghana National Biodiversity Committee

Bibiana Vilá (Argentina)

Message from the Secretariat of the Convention on
Biological Diversity

The closing date for nominations forThe 8th MIDORI Prize is15 June 2024.
AEON Environmental Foundation website:www.aeon.info/ef/en/prize/

Following the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global
Biodiversity Framework in December 2022, the worldcommunity has been responding to the call to take urgent
action for biodiversity. The eighth edition of the MIDORI Prize
for Biodiversity will honor individuals who are supporting themission of this Biodiversity Plan: to halt and reverse the loss ofbiodiversity by 2030. I invite you to also lead by example, andBe part of the Plan.
David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary,Convention on Biological Diversity.

CBD Website www.cbd.int /Director, Vicuñas, Camelids and Environment (VICAM)
Principal Researcher, National Research Council (CONICET) Argentina

2012

Juan Carlos Castilla (Chile)

Professor, Marine Ecology, Department of Ecology,
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Rodrigo Gámez-Lobo (Costa Rica)

President, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio)

Vo Quy (Viet Nam)

Honorary President, Center for Natural Resources Management andEnvironmental Studies (CRES), Vietnam National University, Hanoi

2010

Jean Lemire (Canada)

Biologist, Explorer and Filmmaker

Gretchen C. Daily (USA)Professor, Stanford University

Emil Salim (Indonesia)

Chairman of the Advisory Council to the President of Indonesia
Former Minister of State for Population and the Environment

Special Prize for the International Year of Biodiversity 2010
Angela Merkel (Germany)
Chancellor of Germany*The titles are at the time of the awards.