Planta Europa Awards

 

Silver Leaf Awards are presented in recognition of excellence in plant conservation in Europe. In past Planta Europa Conferences up to three silver leaf awards are being presented although this year five personalities have been awarded.

Each award is a unique piece of art; it is a wooden sculpture with a silver element in a form of a leaf. All Planta Europa awards have been made by Swedish artist Ylva Anckers.

The Jean-Paul Galland Award is Planta Europa’s top award. The award commemorates the French botanist and conservationist Jean-Paul Galland, who was one of the founders of Planta Europa and who died tragically during a plane crash in 1996. Each Planta Europa Conference presents one single Jean-Paul Galland Award to individuals and organisations for outstanding achievements in plant conservation

Both awards were presented for the first time at the 2nd Planta Europa Conference in Uppsala, Sweden, in June 1998.

Linnaeus award is being set for the 2007 Conference to celebrate de 250 th Anniversary of the known as father of Taxonomy, the Swedish biologist Carl Von Linnaeus . The award will recognize important works in plants taxonomy.

Former Award winners

Since 1998, the following individuals have received the awards:

1988

Jean-Paul Galland Award :Cyrille de Klemm, France
Silver Leaf Award :

• Tatyana Andrienko, Ukraine,
• Andy Byfield, UK
• Tomas Hallingbäck, Sweden

2001

Jean-Paul Galland Award: Jan Čeŕovský, Czech Republic
Silver Leaf Award :

• František Procházka, Czech Republic,
• Viera Feráková, Slovakia,
• Victor Parfenov, Byelorussia

2004

Jean-Paul Galland Award: David Bellamy, United Kingdom
Silver Leaf Awards:

• Cesar Gomez-Campo, Spain
• Adrian Darby, UK
• Emilio Laguna, Spain