MEMBER CITY AWARD

This award will go to the Cities4Forests member city with the most submissions.

Prize

Cities4Forests Special Communication Support

Hoshner Reporter is an award-winning travel and commercial photographer based out of Mumbai, India. He has spent the last few years travelling around India documenting its people, history and culture and has had his work featured across a number of Indian and International publications.

Erin Skoczylas is a communications specialist in gaia-liNc and a documentary photographer. She develops communication strategies to upscale awareness for environmental issues and has covered different stories in parts of Latin America and Europe.

Russell Galt works for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), where he serves as Head of the Urban Alliance – a broad coalition of IUCN Members concertedly striving to bring cities into balance with nature. His role entails facilitating debate and knowledge exchange, catalyzing projecs and partnerships, and developing tools and knowledge products.

Griet Ingrid Dierckxsens is a communications specialist for the UN-REDD Programme. She has worked in Asia and Africa and is currently based in Nairobi. From there she has travelled various African countries to observe how people are dealing with deforestation. As a story teller she feels that there is a great community of people out there committed to change their behaviors to protect forests and thereby creating new livelihoods that can lift them out of poverty. Telling their stories will help outsiders, the public, to connect with what’s happening in the world and boost their motivation to join in to protect their environment.

Neha Dara is the business head at RoundGlass Sustain, a treasure trove of stories on India’s natural world. She has been a travel writer and editor for most of her career and has a keen interest in sustainability and responsible tourism. She is happiest trekking in the Himalayas, scuba diving in Andaman & Nicobar Islands, or exploring local markets in small towns. At Sustain, she and her team are working to inspire a sense of wonder in India’s wildlife and habitats while supporting conservation and building a compassionate community.

Asya Al Marhubi is Communications Officer at REVOLVE and researcher with a background in environmental policy analysis and multi-sectoral partnership research.