Winners of Global Awards
2023—DSA: Angela K. Fuller
Conservation Beacon: Nelly Isigi Kadagi
LaRoe: Nina Wambiji
Early Career Conservationist: Ding Li Yong
2021—DSA: Sarah Legge, David Towns
Conservation Beacon: Uma Ramakrishnan
LaRoe: David Cumming
Early Career Conservationist: Rae Wynn-Grant
2019—DSA: E.J. Milner-Gulland, Richard Kingsford
Conservation Beacon: Tuyeni Heita Mwampamba
LaRoe: Kevin Hiew Wai Phang, Mark Shaffer
Early Career Conservationist: Aerin Jacob
2017—DSA: Father Hermann Borg, Angelo O'Connor Villagomez
Conservation Beacon: Mimi Lam
LaRoe: Patricia Heglund
Early Career Conservationist: Diogo Verissimo
2015—DSA: Elsa Cabrera, Kerry Sink, IUCN Red List Committee
Early Career: Stacy Jupiter
LaRoe: Sue Miller-Taei
2013—DSA: Eleanor Sterling, Bill Sutherland, John Woinarski, The Center for the Study and Conservation of Raptors in Argentina (CECARA)
Early Career: James Watson and Lucas Joppa
LaRoe: Robin Waples
2011—DSA: William Laurance, Patricia Majluf, Richard Primack
Early Career: Michael Mascia
LaRoe: Brian John Huntley
2010—DSA: Idelisa Bonnelly de Calventi, Muhammad Mumtaz Malik, Jon Paul Rodríguez, Marine Mammal Commission, Julian Olden
LaRoe: David Schindler
2009—DSA: Kamal Bawa, Shivani Bhalla, Ernesto Enkerlin, Dr Aili Kang, George Schaller, Marika Tuiwawa
LaRoe: Joel Berger
2008—DSA: Mario Baudoin, Anne Kapuscinski, David Lindenmayer, Helene Marsh, Jorge Soberon
LaRoe: Gonzalo Halffter
2007—DSA: JC Daniel, Rodolfo Dirzo, Malcolm Hunter, Kathryn MacKinnon, Nature Kenya
LaRoe: Jeremy Jackson
2006—DSA: Javier Simonetti, Dee Boersma, Yolanda Kakabadse Navarro, Mark Burgman, Nature Conservation Foundation
LaRoe: Stuart Pimm
2005—DSA: Binod Chandra Choudhury, Maria Elena Ibarra, Richard Cowling, David Ferguson, Tropical Biology Association
LaRoe: Daniel Pauly
2004—DSA: Gerardo Ceballos Gonzalez, Bittu Sahgal, A.J.T. Johnsingh, International Crane Foundation
LaRoe: Jerry Franklin
2003—DSA: Jane Lubchenco, The Aldo Leopold Foundation, Martha Isabel Ruiz Corzo, Sarath Kotagama, Michael Dombeck
LaRoe: Stephen Schneider
2002—DSA: Georgina M. Mace, The Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands, Márcio Ayres, David Attenborough, Phoebe Barnard, Anil Agarwal
LaRoe: John Lawton
2001—DSA: The Patrol Guards of the Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature, Eugene P. Odum, José Sarukhán Kermez, David S. Wilcove, Biodiversity Legal Foundation, Gary Larson
LaRoe: Robert Pressey
2000—DSA: The 5200 Contributors to the Loomis Forest, John J. Craighead, Tan Sri Datuk Amar Haji Hamid Bugo, Peter H. Raven, Robert Goodland, Gary Paul Nabhan
LaRoe: Edwin Philip Pister
1999—DSA: Instituto de Pesquisas Ecologicas (IPE), Brazil, John L. Craig, N. Thompson Hobbs, Lorena Calvo M., Administrative Management and Design (ADMADE) Program, Zambia, Peter Matthiessen
LaRoe: Chandler Robbins
1998—DSA: Palau Conservation Society, Sir Otto Frankel, Denis Saunders, George Rabb, Andy Robinson, Kathleen Blanchard/Quebec-Labrador Foundation, Graeme Caughley (Special award - posthumous)
LaRoe: J. Michael Scott
1997—DSA: Amur River Project, Donald Worster, Jack Williams, Robert Michael Pyle, Daniel Kemmis, Wild Earth
LaRoe: Barry Noon
1996—DSA: Malpai Borderlands Group, Gordon Orians, James Williams, William Conway, Ken Saro-wiwa (posthumous), Elizabeth Donnelly/Journey North Project
LaRoe: Katherine Ralls
1995—DSA: Herman Daly, Larry Harris, Daniel Janzen, Mardy Murie, High Country News, Jim Nelson, Wildlife Conservation Society
LaRoe: Reed Noss
1994—DSA: Exequiel Ezcurra, Hugh Iltis, Toshio Kasuya, Robert Repetto, José Sarhukan, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Albert Gore
1993—DSA: The Nature Conservancy, David Ehrenfeld, Michael Soule, Robert E. Jenkins, Jeff DeBonis, J. Michael Scott
1992—DSA: The Wildlife Society, Stephen H. Hubbell, Henry F. Howe, Lorraine Mintzmyer, Robert Costanza, Island Press
1991—DSA: Bat Conservation International, Jack Ward Thomas, Sara Vickerman, Roger Lewin, Theodore Panayatou, Victor Sheffer, E.O. Wilson, Joe Hickey (special award)
1990—DSA: Alwyn Gentry, Phil Pister, Steve Kellert, Paulo Nogueira Neto
1989—DSA: David Western, John Terborgh, Stan Temple, Noel Snyder, John Krutilla
1988—DSA: Ray Dasmann, Michael Bean, Devra Kleiman, Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust, Inter-Agency Grizzly Bear Team
1987 (first year)—DSA: Norman Myers, Paul Ehrlich, Michael Lannarty, New York Zoological Society