The Ministry of the Environment is awaiting nominations for the 30,000-kroon Eerik Kumari nature conservation award. Nominees must submit a specific work, a summary of a long-term project, a project report, a research work, a work of art or literature, a publication, a radio or television programme or film (et al) to the Ministry of the Environment. These works must have been previously published, exhibited or implemented or been given recommendations to this effect. Nominations can be submitted to the Ministry of the Environment’s Nature Conservation Department until 2 May 2007 at Narva mnt 7a, 15172 Tallinn. The Ministry of the Environment has awarded the Eerik Kumari prize during nature conservation month every year since 1989. The prize is designed to highlight the work of individuals and groups in the protection of colonies, species and special sites and the distribution and promotion of information on these and related subjects. The very first prize was awarded to Fred Jüssi, while the 2006 award went to Tiit Randla for his many years of nature conservation and protection and studies of birds and popularising interest in birds. Eerik Kumari (1912-1984) was the chairman of the nature conservation committee of the Estonian Academy of Science for almost 30 years and was behind the launch of the country’s ‘red book.’ In the wider world the professor of ornithology is well-known for laying the foundations of bird-related research and nature conservation in Estonia. For further information please contact: Katrin Teder Specialist, Nature Conservation Department, Ministry of the Environment +372 626 2874 Agnes Jürgens Deputy Advisor, Public Relations Department, Ministry of the Environment +372 626 2811 |
