Simone Lovera of Global Forest Coalition wins prestigious Forest Award

July 8: Simone Lovera, the Executive Director of the Global Forest Coalition (GFC) [1] won the 2018 Sandro Urushadze Award for her lifelong contribution to the defence of the world’s forests and forest peoples. The award was given by Andrey Laletin of Friends of the Siberian Forests of Russia at GFCs Fostering Community Conservation: Second Conference that took place from 4-8 July in Montreal, Canada [2]. The Sandro Urushadze Award was established to honour the legacy of the distinguished ecologist, …