Wild animals in China, a new park in Peru

Third-round winners

The third round of Biodiversity Leadership Awards has a diversity all its own. The six winners, who work in five projects, studying and protecting a great variety of Earth's creatures — from lemurs in Madagascar, to pigs and pandas in China, from the seeds and plants and their human guardians along an Amazon tributary in Ecuador, to a new, biologically rich park in Peru, and even to a non-governmental organization that spreads the word of biodiversity to the public and policy makers.

The new winners, announced in June 2002, are:

• Jane Elder, the executive director of the Biodiversity Project in Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
  
  
• Judy Logback, who formed the Callari Cooperative with indigenous families of the Upper Napo River in Ecuador.
  
  
• Lily O. Rodriguez and Debra K. Moskovits, who never tired in their efforts to convince Peruvian officials of the need to create Cordillera Azul National Park — and who succeeded.
  
  
• Anne Yoder, A Yale biologist who studies the intriguing diversity of lemurs in Madagascar, and who brings promising Malagasy students and faculty members to her lab in New Haven to learn more about conservation biology.
  
  
• Ya-Ping Zhang, who studies the evolution and genomics of animals in his native China, from monkeys, hares, pandas, and fishes, to domestic animals such as pig, cattle, and chickens.

To find out more about each of the winners, click on their names above. And return to this site from time to time, as more details of the winners' work, and photos of them on the job, are added.

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