page_title: David Suzuki
section_title: Awards and honours
hierarchical_section_title: David Suzuki / Awards and honours
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Preisverleihung des Right Livelihood Award/alternativen Nobelpreises 2009: Preisübergabe an David Suzuki (l) durch Jakob von Uexküll (r). English: Award Ceremnony of the 30th Right Livelihood Award 2009: The prize is presented to David Suzuki (l) by Jakob von Uexküll (r). Svenska: Prisutdelning av 2009 års Right Livelihood-pris: Överlämnande till David Suzuki (v) av Jakob von Uexküll (h).
context_page_description: David Takayoshi Suzuki CC OBC FRSC is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster and environmental activist. Suzuki earned a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961, and was a professor in the genetics department at the University of British Columbia from 1963 until his retirement in 2001. Since the mid-1970s, Suzuki has been known for his television and radio series, documentaries and books about nature and the environment. He is best known as host of the popular and long-running CBC Television science program The Nature of Things, seen in over 40 countries. He is also well known for criticizing governments for their lack of action to protect the environment.
  A longtime activist to reverse global climate change, Suzuki co-founded the David Suzuki Foundation in 1990, to work "to find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world that does sustain us". The Foundation's priorities are: oceans and sustainable fishing, climate change and clean energy, sustainability, and Suzuki's Nature Challenge. The Foundation also works on ways to help protect the oceans from large oil spills such as the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
context_section_description: Suzuki is an appointee to the Order of Canada, first as an Officer (1976), then upgraded to Companion status in (2006), the Order of British Columbia (1995), and is the recipient of UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science (1986) and a long list of Canadian and international honours.
  Canadian version of the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977.
  125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal in 1992.
  Canadian version of the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002.
  Canadian version of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012.
  In 2004, Suzuki was nominated as one of the top ten "Greatest Canadians" by viewers of the CBC. In the final vote he ranked fifth, making him the greatest living Canadian. Suzuki said that his own vote was for Tommy Douglas who was the eventual winner.
  In 2006, Suzuki was the recipient of the Bradford Washburn Award presented at the Museum of Science in Boston, Massachusetts.
  In 2007, Suzuki was honoured by Global Exchange, with the International Human Rights Award.
  In 2009, Suzuki was awarded the Honorary Right Livelihood Award.
  He was the subject of Sturla Gunnarsson's 2010 documentary film Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie.
  On June 23, 2015, Suzuki was awarded the Freedom of the City by the Vancouver City Council, which entitled him to the title Freeman of the City of Vancouver.
caption: Suzuki receives the Right Livelihood Award from Jakob von Uexkull
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